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BRITISH LITERATURE, THEMES OF HONOR, LOYALTY, AND CHIVALRY, FEMINIST…
BRITISH LITERATURE
DRAMA - PLAYS
Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 (1598)
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DESCRIPTION: about Prince Hal, the son of King Henry IV, who has taken a nontraditional path to prepare for leadership, which disappoints his father, who wishes he were more of a traditional brute heroic type like Hotspur, a knight that eventually goes against the King and is defeated by Hal in the end
unconventional hero: Hal, Lanval's queen
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ARTICLES/ESSAYS
Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal
- a satirical essay that comments on the outlandish measures implemented by government to combat public problem like poverty in Ireland
Mona Caird's “Does Marriage Hinder a Woman’s Self-Development?” - an article/essay of the effects of marriage on woman's success that highlights the issues by placing men in the place of women
NARRATIVE PROSE
SHORT STORIES
Charlotte Mew's "A White Night" - on the surface, a story about tourist stumbling upon a shady town in Spain's ritual of human sacrifice, but the subtext is of the mistreatment and disregard of woman by the government/church
Joseph Conrad's "Youth: A Narrative" - a former sailor recounts a story from his youth, where he and his crewmates heroically struggle with problem after problem in an attempt to reach Bangkok
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NOVELS
Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688) - "real" story of a former prince who is enslaved but in enslavement, finds the love of his life (who he thought was dead) and when she becomes pregnant, he decides it is time to be free again
sometimes considered the first english novel; "real" because claim within themselves that they are real (real people, real events), but in actuality, are not (although they claim to be and are plausible), which was a signature of early novels
POETRY
SONNETS
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SIDNEY
#1 [Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show”]
#2 [Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot”]
#47 [“What, have I thus betray’d by liberty?”]
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WORDSWORTH
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“Steamboats,Viaducts, and Railways” (1833)
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Donne's "Batter My Heart" - religious masochist - there can be no forgiveness from God without suffering
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LAIS
Marie de France's Lanval - a story of a good knight forgotten and unappreciated by his king who stumbles upon a flawless magical wife who he must prove loyalty to by never mentioning her and yet when he does, she comes to his rescue; originally written in rhyming couplets with allowed people to remember the story more easily
EPICS
Milton's Paradise Lost - John Milton was English poet who wrote under the influence of a rise in religion and political chaos; Paradise Lost is the retelling of the biblical story of Adam and Eve and their downfall; written in blank verse
Book 9 - here Satan actually tricks Eve, Adam and Eve have now broken God's only rule and sinned; Book 9 characterizes Satan in a very interesting way that allows the audience to sympathize and even relate to him
Book 3 - Plot Summary: God sees that man will fall from grace because he has allowed them freewill and so, his son, Jesus, volunteers to go to Earth some day and sacrifice himself for their sins; the scene shifts to Satan, who jealous of Adam and Eve (God's favorite children), plots to deceive them and force their fall from grace
Beowulf - Written in the Anglo-Saxen period of the Middle Ages and is adopted as Britain's founding poem (despite being based in Scandanvia)
Depicts a hero that was self-made and who did not purely depend on linage and status to become a HERO
GENERAL POETRY
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John Keats' "La Belle Dame sans Merci" - ballad of a femme fatale, with fairy-like magic, who lures and lullabies good men, Knights, Kings and ruins them
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BROWNING(S)
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ROBERT BROWNING
"Porphyria's Lover" - poem of how a man kills his beloved, who is of a higher social status than he, so that she may escape the bounds of class and he seemingly feels no remorse as God has not punished him for his act
Robert Browning had a gift of writing/characterizing creepy, possessive male figures, and did so with no evidence of satire -- Poor Elizabeth!
"My Last Duchess" - poem of a man who shows the painting of his titular last duchess to everyone he can, which usually results in the viewers running in fear and/or discomfort
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WWI POETRY
John McRae's "In Flanders Field" - written in early WWI; encourages fellow English men to not let the death of their English brothers be in vain; pro-war propaganda
Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum" - written much later into WWI as evident by the bitter tone of the poem; sarcastically speaks of how great is is the die for your country
SIEGFRIED SASSOON
"The One-Legged Man" - poem that expresses how amputation saved men from returning to war; is insight to the horrors of ear -- men would rather lose a limb than go back
"Repression of War Experience" - about shell shock/PTSD; the haunting poem paints what it is like for soldiers when the come home; they may leave the war but the war will never leave them
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LARKIN
"Talking in Bed"
Contemporary poetry; timeless subject with modern words, e.i. "fuck"
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Chaucer's Miller’s Prologue and Tale (1387-1400) - written as a Fablieu; The Canterbury Tales was meant to be imagined as pilgrims going to and leaving Canterbury, telling tales on their journey.
included: Frame Narration, social commentary on estates, class system, and chivalric code
Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market - story of sisterhood; a sister saves the other after she falls into temptation by walking to the edge of that very same temptation but not succumbing to it 
THEMES OF HONOR, LOYALTY, AND CHIVALRY
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MEDIEVAL ERA (450 - 14TH C
divded into 3 periods: Anglo-Saxon (450-1066), Anglo-Norman (1066 - 12th C), and [13th and 14th C]
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