This too I shall pass....

I came, and hopefully conquered. We have finally made it to the end of this 20 something odd chapter novel that is my blog. AP Literature was not easy I struggled in staying on top of my work and time management, which seems to always be my struggle whenever I seem to be falling behind in a class, but it I feel as though it definitely helped me in preparing me for the AP exam. I really didn't like the Ap exam because it's so hard reading the passages in the multiple choice because they just seem so complex and they don't really make any sense. The questions they ask go from easy to hard and the hard ones were sometimes just as confusing as the passage. But overall the multiple choice went fairly well. The essays, which we have spent the entire year on, in hopes of grades above a five, were interesting to say the least. Normally when we look at poems there is some specific hidden idea that we look for; some type of journey, loss of innocence, or growth, I didn't really see that in this specific poem all I saw was a actual object that represented the past and the debate between holding on to the past and letting go of it, which I guess would sort of be the hidden meaning, but because of what we have learned in Lit all year I just felt that there was something more that I needed to have seen and I didn't. Literature has taught me to really look within the poem for what the poet is really trying to say about everyday life, and I just know there was more in this poem then holding on to the past life. With the prose piece I was able to comprehend what the author was saying about the women's situation and what she wanted to do with her life, but it just seemed so in your face about her situation and the kind of women that she is, that, once again, you thought there needed to be more. I talked about the symbolism of the vicar and the differences between the vicar and her husband and how that characterized the woman, but when we write prose essays in class we always have to go deeper in order to receive a better grade.It separates the 5 or 6 from a 7 or 8. With the free response I wrote about Emma and Box Hill because that is a pivotal moment, where she starts to do more introspection. It worked out really well because we spent a lot of time talking about Emma, in class. All in All I think AP Lit has definitely helped me on the exam.We're aiming for a 4

No Importance of Being Earnest

Why does Jack refuse to give his consent to Cecily’s marriage? How may this help his own case with Lady Bracknell?  

Jack refuses to give his consent to Cecily because if he says that Cecily can’t marry Algy then Lady Bracknell will try to convince him to let her marry him because she has a lot of money. Jack is using Cecily as leverage so that Lady Bracknell would first give him permission to marry Gwendolyn, and the longer that he holds out on Lady Bracknell then she will have to give in to Gwendolyn marrying Jack because lady wants the bounty that comes with Cecily. She has already given Cecily the right to call her aunt, so she has already accepted her, but it’s really only for the money.

Why do you think Algernon “kills” Bunbury? Why does he not need him anymore?

Algernon used Bunbury as an excuse to get out of going to his Aunt’s dinner parties, but now he has found a more logical reason to get out of the parties, Cecily. I think he killed Bunbury because he was tired of lying, after she found out that his name wasn’t really Earnest then which turned into a web of lies and so he wanted to be his true self and just be Algernon, and get rid of the lie of Earnest and Bunbury.

Describe the recognition scene in Act iii.  How is Jack’s discovery of his true identity ironic?

Jack realizes that he is actually related to Lady Bracknell and that he is the nephew of Lady Bracknell and Gwendolyn is his cousin. It is ironic that he turns out to be the brother of Algernon, so when he said that he was earnest in the city and Jack in the country it turned that not only did he actually have a brother but he was also true about the city, because he told Cecily and Miss. Prism that he had to visit his brother who was always getting into scrapes, which Algernon actually is. It was also ironic that when he questioned who his father was and it turned out that his father’s name was Earnest and he is named earnest which he wanted because Gwendolyn wanted to marry someone named Earnest. Everything that Jack said had turned out to be true without him actually realizing. He actually had a brother who lived in the city, his father’s name was Earnest and him being christened earnest was actually the right thing because his name was really Earnest. Wilde showed through the novel and the turn of events, and how no one actually got married that there really isn’t an “importance of being Earnest” and that earnest was really just a web of tangled lies, and earnest was just a trivial thing in order for Jack and Algernon to get Cecily and Gwendolyn, by lying and saying their name was earnest.