28, 2005
the Puritans and MUSIC
Dr. Jerz sparked a fire under my butt when he suggested in class that I do some research in regards to Puritans and music...
it seems as though the great art of music was wasted on Puritans. It was BANNED from their culture because it was believed to be sinful..
"Three English diversions were banned in their New England colonies; drama, religious music and erotic poetry. The first and last of these led to immorality. Music in worship created a "dreamy" state which was not conducive in listening to God. "
http://www.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/puritans.html
If these people could not act, sing music, or listen to poetry... how could they thrive as a culture? They had no means of creativity.
Posted by LeahDavis at 09:34 | Comments (1)
Cover Page
Coverage:
the Scarlet Letter
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http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/09/scarlet_letter.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/09/additional_entr.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/09/scarlet_letter_1.html
The Yellow Wall Paper
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/09/the_yellow_wall.html
Bartleby the Scriviner
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/09/bartleby_the_sc.html
Depth:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/09/the_puritans_an.html
Discussions:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/09/the_scarlett_le.html
Timeleiness:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeahDavis/2005/09/the_scarlet_let.html
Xenoblogging:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ElizabethLudovici/2005/09/the_scarlett_le.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LizabethSchomer/010617.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DeePruett/2005/09/the_yellow_wall.html#comments
Interaction:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LizabethSchomer/010617.html
As I reflect upon my blogging experience I realize that I react more with questions than definite thoughts, and that I interact with others by stating my passionate opinions. In order to generate a discussion based upon my thoughts, I think I must ask questions that just beg to be answered. My college education being in Music Education, I see that my pedagogy classes have served me well. I just naturally think the way that I should in the classroom.
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Bartleby the Scriviner and the Custom House
I must admit... I needed help forming a comparison between these two texts..
So... I think my comparison will be between Bartleby and Hawthorne. Hawthorne accepts his family's past and becomes a great writer inspite of the fact that he knows his grandfathers would not have approved of it. While this thought could have devestated and depressed him, he moved past it.
Bartleby-it suggests in the last paragraph- had a job with the government(as Hawthorne's grandfathers did), handleing dead mail, and he let it depress him so much that he felt useless and died a lonely death. "Dead Letters! Dose it no sound like dead men? Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more fitted to heighten it than tha of continually handling these dead letters and asorting them for flames?"
Posted by LeahDavis at 05:25 | Comments (0)
The Yellow Wall Paper
Honestly, the first thing I thought after reading this piece was "Huh?"... so I had to read it again. I thought it incredibly interesting that it seemed to be a diary of a crazy woman. She seemed to get worse as the story continued... but maybe she would have been okay had her doctors let her do as she suggested in the beginning...
" Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good."
The mind is a confusing thing, and if a woman so desires excitement and change and her husband locks her up in a room for 3 months, what else is she to do but hang herself? Being mostly alone for 3 months, stuck in one place would sure drive me crazy.
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Additional entry Scarlet Letter ch 14-21
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/05/050518175839.htm
take a look at this site.. it talks a bit about my above point... children being more perceptive and honest than adults!
Posted by LeahDavis at 05:02 | Comments (1)
21, 2005
Scarlet letter chapter 21-end
page 213 refers to Pearl as an elf child. As she is repeatedly referred to as such through out the Scarlett Letter.
Elf- Definition elf ( P ) Pronunciation Key (lf)
n. pl. elves (lvz)
A small, often mischievous creature considered to have magical powers.
A lively, mischievous child.
A usually sprightly or mischievous or sometimes spiteful person.
Why would Pearl be considered an Elf to everyone in the book? Why not a witch? Or demon child? Elves are niether good nor evil? Is this a point Hawthorne is trying to make?
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Scarlet letter ch14-21
"It is the Minister!""And so it is!" said the child. "And, mother, he has his hand over his heart! Is it because, when the minister wrote his name in the book, the Black Man set his mark in that place? But why does he not wear it outside his bosom, as thou dost Mother?" Page 155
It is amazing how perceptive 7 year old children can be. How is it that this one child can pick up on that but no one else in the town can?
Posted by LeahDavis at 04:56 | Comments (0)
14, 2005
The Scarlett Letter entry #2
"It is inconceivable, the agony with which this public veneration tortured him! It was his genuine impulse to adore the truth, and to reckon all things shadow-like, and utterly devoid of weight or value, that had not its divine essence as the life within their life. Then, what was he?- a substance?- or the dimmest of all shadows? He longed to speak out, from his own pulpit, at the full height of his voice, and tell the people what he was. " I, whom you behold in these black garments of the priesthood,- I, who ascend the sacred desk, and turn my pale face heavenward, taking upon myself to hold communion, in your behalf, with the Most High Omniscience- I, in whose daily life you discern the sanctity of Enoch,- I whose footsteps, as you suppose, leave a gleam along my earthly track, whereby the pilgrims that shall come after me may be guided to the regions of the blest, - I, who have laid the hand of baptism upon your children, - I, who have breathed the parting prayer over your dying frineds, to whom the Amen sounded faintly from a world which they had quitted, - I, your pastor whom you so reverence and trust, am utterly a pollution and a lie!"" (page 119)
Things are not always as they seem. People we love, trust, worship, obey can and will lie to us, decieve us and let us down. Men and women will sin, over and over again. Holy people are no exception to this rule of human nature. Why do we expect that they would be?
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10, 2005
The Scarlet Letter
"The scene was not without a mixture of awe, such as must always invest the spectacle of guilt and shame in a fellow-creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering, at it."
Without suffering there would be no compassion. But where does enjoyment in others' suffering come into that thought process?
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