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- - - - Metaphor
      - Allusion
      - Satire
      - Symbolism
      - Rhythm
  - - - Femininity
      - Motherhood
    - - Lady Lazarus
        
        Specific themes of Suicide and Death
- - - - Rhythm
      - Rhetorical Devices
        
        Personification
        
        Allusion
        
        Analogy
        
        Anaphora
        
        Metaphor
      - Poetic Structure
    - - Meaning
      - Cultural References
- - - - Russian Spoken In Here
        
        Nabokov's father wad part of the white movement, the anti-communist forces that fought the communist Bolsheviks (Reds) in the Russian Civil War
        
        "...kinds of white Guard scum keep hanging around" (says the GPU agent who becomes the prisoner in the story)
        
        GPU or later, KGB, were the State Political Directorate, the secret police of the Russian Soviet Federative Republic. Nabokov's father was executed in Berlin in 1922 by the GPU, this was written in 1923
        
        "he was a GPU man if I ever saw one" (narrator about the prisoner)
      - Razor
      - The Wood Sprite
        
        Nabokov was forced to flee Russia due to his father's involvement with anti-communist political parties, which is mirrored by the forest elf having to flee the forest
        
        "And here I am, forced to flee like everybody else
        
        Nabokov had to learn German when he came to Germany, many of the Russians in Germany and Paris didn't speak any Russian aside from with friends from the former homeland
        
        "...I've even learned human talk"
        
        The wood sprite refers to his former home that he was forced to flee as "Rus'" which is obviously similar to Russia
    - - Signs and Symbols
      - The Doorbell
    - - The Passenger
      - Signs and Symbols
      - The Aurelian
      - The Potato Elf
    - - The Aurelian
    - - Wingstroke
        
        Isabel
        
        Isabel potentially dies the night she does skiing
        
        " 'Of course it was extraordinary, I hurtled down the slopes in the dark, I flew off the bumps. Right into the stars.'
        'You might have killed yourself' said Kern" (About Isabel's night skiing. Unsure about the translation but the use of 'might' instead of 'could')
        
        "In the distance, the metallic summits floated in funereal radiance. He had the sensation that he had glanced into death" (Quote about the slopes after Isabel tells Kern she went out night skiing. Use of the word "funereal" implies death)
        
        "I met him yesterday as I was flying on my skis in the dark. Last night he came to me" (Isabel talking about meeting the angel dog thing. She is scared of it)
        
        "...crucified in midair" (is how Kern describes Isabel before she falls to her death. It's almost as if she died before she fell, plus, the Swedish doctor notes that her injuries (her entire rib cage is crushed) are sort of odd for her not so major fall)
        
        "...revenge wingstroke" (the line in the short story that references the name, how Kern described the circumstances of Isabel's death. Revenge of who? By the use of the work wingstroke, and the detailed description of the angels visceral brown wings, most likely is the angels revenge. Possibly because Isabel escaped death the first time when she was supposed to die, so he took his revenge later)
        
        Kern
        
        Kern's wife committed suicide by poisoning herself which is the source of the majority of his issues in Wingstroke
        
        Kern gets drunk, tells the homosexual Monfiori he plans to kill himself the next day, Monfiori asks to watch (death treated apathetically)
        
        Ambiguous ending if Kern actually killed himself or not, last piece of dialogue is "I am going upstairs to my room now...upstairs...If you wish to accompany me" which Kern says to Monfiori. I took this to imply that he is going to kill himself, other scholarship has interpreted it as an acceptance of Monfiori's homosexual advances to Kern (I prefer the death innuendo)
      - Gods
        
        Life and death, focuses on a young couple on their way to the cemetery to see their dead son and scattered with religious allusions (possibly the idea of "How could god do this?")
      - Nabokov and morally depraved characters
        
        Cheever on Nabokov: "I open Nabokov and am charmed by this spectrum of ambiguities, this marvellous atmosphere of untruth; and I am interested in his methods and find them very sympathetic, but his imagery — the shadow of a magician against a shimmery curtain, and all those sugared violets — is not mine. The house I was raised in had its charms, but my father hung his underwear from a nail he had driven into the back of the bathroom door, and while I know something about the Riviera I am not a Russian aristocrat polished in Paris. My prose style will always be to a degree matter-of-fact." (The Journals of John Cheever)
        
        "This healthy, vigorous, young guy, sporty, well-dressed for some reason constantly is writing about these depraved, kind of manic, sordid characters" (Podcast: History of Literature 492 Nabokov Noir w/ Luke Parker)
  - - - A Matter of Chance
        
        Luzhin mistaking the Princess as his wife, missing his wife's dropped ring, and then accidentally getting hit by a train are an ironic series of chances
      - Revenge
        
        The biology professor mistaking his paranoid wife's letter to a ghost as evidence of infidelity and killing her
      - Russian Spoken Here
        
        Nabokov uses irony as a way to satirize/critique the Russian prisons (gulags)
        
        Prisoner is kept well-fed which is ironic for a supposed horrible prison
        
        Prisoner is given books and academic lectures, opposite of communist prisons which focus on depravation of art and literature
        
        Large comfortable cell with a bathtub and a bed, no beds in typical Russian prisons or at least terrible ones, stereotypical grimy prisoners
    - - Musico-literary microcosm (microcosm: a community, place, or situation regarded as encapsulating in miniature the characteristic qualities or features of something much larger)
        
        Nabokov's Quarter
        
        The Visit to the Museum
        
        The Vane Sisters
        
        Lik
        
        An Affair of Honor
        
        Music
        
        Sounds
        
        The piano music is a microcosm for his love for the woman
- - - - "YAH."
        
        It plays on the duality of life and the inner conflicts we all have....
      - "FEEL."
      - "PRIDE."
        
        Kendrick believe he is one of the best rappers, but he also says thinking you are the best is a "sick venom"
      - "BLOOD"
        
        "Is it wickedness?/ Is it weakness?/You decide/Are we gonna live or die?"
      - Form
      - DNA
        
        discusses the positive, negative, & indifferent traits that come within the make up of a man
  - - - "DNA."
      - "FEAR."
  - - - Kendrick talks about his lust and pride, and convincing himself that they won't negatively effect his afterlife
    - - Kendrick finds temptation; hard to resist:
        "I know He walks the Earth
        But it's money to get, bitches to hit, yah"
    - - For Kendrick, pride seems to be a particularly difficult sin to avoid. He believes he's is one of the best rappers currently, as he uses music to tackle issues that most other artists rarely ever touch. However, thinking you are the best is a "sick venom" as it blinds you from concerning others
  - - - "FEAR."
  - - - He centers the track around a passage from Book of Deuteronomy, claiming that Israelites are cursed for eternity as a test of their faithing
  - - - "FEAR."
  - - - "BLOOD."
      - "DNA."
      - "XXX."
  - - - He mentions about how his mom stomped him and his grandmas both dying left him prayerless
  - - - BLOOD
      - YAH
      - FEEL
      - LOYALTY
      - HUMBLE
      - LOVE
      - FEAR
      - DUCKWORTH
    - - DNA
      - ELEMENT
      - PRIDE
      - LUST
      - XXX
      - GOD
- - - - The Three Sisters
        
        Military town
      - The Seagull
        
        Complexities of the world of Russian theater
    - - The Cherry Orchard
        
        Trofimov and his socialist views
        
        High class to low class progression
      - The Three Sisters
        
        The three sisters' fall from high society
        
        Contrast of low and high society
    - - The Cherry Orchard
        
        Nostalgia (Lyubov/Leonid)
        
        Pride (Lopahkin)
        
        Naivety (Anya)
      - The Seagull
        
        Pride (Irina)
        
        Worthlessness (Treplyov)
        
        Lust (Nina and Trigorin)
  - - - Multiple stories within a story
        
        Action Happening in the Background
        
        Multiple Stories Going on at the Same Time
      - Dialouge-based
        
        Writing styles used
        
        Narritive
        
        Descriptive
    - - Dialogue heavy with narration included
    - - Dramatic irony
      - Situational irony
- - - - Poison as use of murder
        
        For Gertrude, Claudius, Hamlet, and Laertes
      - Polonius hiding behind curtain
      - Claudius/Gertrude going behind Hamlet's back to elist Hamlet's friends to spy on him
      - Secret plan to send Hamlet to England to kill him
    - - Is the ghost really there?
      - Crafted madness
      - Polonius/Claudius' duplicity
      - Poison to kill
      - Performance with actors
      - Gertrude/Ophelia's supposed innocence
    - - Hamlet feigning/actually going mad
      - Ophelia going mad
    - - Indecision (Hamlet)
        
        When he does act, it's reckless
      - Greed (Claudius/Polonius)
      - Revenge (Laertes/Hamlet)
      - Trust (Ophelia)
    - - Ophelia and Gertrude as submissive
        
        Yet, Ophelia may have killed herself
        
        Yet, Ophelia may have slept with Hamlet before marriage
        
        Yet, Gertrude "disobeys" Claudius and drinks the poison
      - Hamlet views all women to be corrupt
    - - Symbol: Yorick's skull
      - Laertes, Polonius, Gertrude, Hamlet, Claudius, Ophelia all die
      - The ghost of Hamlet's father
    - - Everything is "rotten"
        
        Denmark
        
        Morality/Sanity
        
        Hamlet's fascination for corpses
    - - Familial
        
        Incest but also Hamlet's relationship with mother and father is bad
        
        Laertes, Polonius, and Ophelia's relationship
      - Hamlet and Horatio
      - Ophelia and Hamlet
  - - - 5-Act Structure
      - Tragedy
      - Objective 3rd person POV
        
        Soliloquys
        
        Dialogue Driven
    - - Iambic pentameter
      - Older English
        
        Complex: More difficult to understand in modern times
        
        Metaphor
    - - Influences Setting: Castle
      - 1300s-1400s
- - - - Old Money vs New Money
  - - - Myrtle/Gastby/Buchan
      - Gatsby Parties and Grandeur
    - - Objective bias based on it being Nick's perspective
- - - - Solace
        
        Pastoralia
        
        Barber's Unhapiness
        
        Compensating for not having toes by fantasizing women and they would love him for who he es
        
        Sea Oak
        
        The death of Bernie, was compensated by
      - Joylessness
        
        Sea Oak
        
        Joysticks and the showing your dick to get more tips
        
        Violence in TV, everyday life, and even in Aunt Bernie
        
        Pastoralia
        
        Monotony, starving, emptying your own human refuse
        
        The Barber's Unhappiness
        
        Unhappiness caused by himself and his insecurities
        
        Caused by his mom
        
        Little success and wanting more for his barber business
      - Desensitization
        
        Sticks
        
        Idea of everything meaning nothing in the end
        
        Winky
        
        Accepting your fate
        
        Sea Oak
        
        Watching highly violent shows as a form of entertaintment
        
        Seeing the problems with kids vandalizing and killing as a norm
        
        Pastoralia
      - Usage of Women
        
        The Barbers Unhappiness
        
        Exploited
        
        Reflects insecurities onto them
        
        The mother
        
        Sea Oak
        
        Mistreatment of Aunt Bernie during her lifetime
        
        Inversion of gender roles
        
        Man working as the stripper, women sitting on the coach and doing nothing
        
        Presentation of normalcy amplifies satire
      - Social Class
        
        Barber's Unhappiness
        
        Working class, still live with mother
        
        Sea Oak
        
        Working class in bad area but still poor and cannot have identity because poor
        
        Pastoralia
        
        Working class: exploited but manages because they need to to survive
      - Inequality
        
        Pastoralia
        
        Wealth and Social inequality
        
        Sea Oak
        
        Wealth and social inequality
      - Power
        
        Sea Oak
        
        Feeling powerless against corporations
        
        Power of cyclical nature of violence
        
        Power of death
        
        Barber's Unhappiness
        
        Power mother has over barber
        
        Power barber has over his own conscious/decisions (or lack)
        
        Pastoralia
        
        Power dynamics between narrator and corporation
        
        Power narrator has over Janet's fate
      - Capitalism
        
        Pastoralia
        
        Hierarchy
        
        Messages/goat comes from above
        
        Working class literally exploited (zoo)
        
        Entire dependence on those "above" you
        
        Sea Oak
        
        Work minimum wage/exploitative jobs just to survive
        
        Sticks
        
        His father scrounging for money amplifies his strictness and the unhapinness of the narrators childhood
      - Identity
        
        Pastoralia
        
        Stripped of identity through no name, not allowed to speak English or act human, even clean own refuse, depend fully on others
        
        Sea Oak
        
        Exploited as have to show dick
        
        Min, Jade, and Bernie with almost no identity
        
        The Barber's Unhappiness
        
        Feeling like a loser, powerless, not sucessful in business or socially
      - Pastoralia Form
        
        Chapter numbers (often short chapters)
        
        The language within these chapters is blunt and repetitive
        
        Quote ending the chapters: "Do I note any attitudinal difficulties? I do not. How do I rate my partner overall? Very good. Are there any situations which require mediation? There are not. I fax it in."
        
        Colloquial language
        
        Swearing
        
        Janet with not always proper grammar contrasting the proper grammar of corporate
        
        Letters from corporate with more animated diction and punctuation (capital letters, exclamation points)
        
        A lot of erotema (asking questions without answering
        
        Satirizing how corporations are
        
        First person POV to have more "realism"
        
        This protagonist is unnamed
        
        Setting of zoo emphasizes meaning
      - Sea Oak form
        
        Lack of chapter form, instead just blank space with next paragraph
        
        Both dialogue and description
        
        Dialogue is colloquial
        
        "You did high school. You got your frigging diploma...If we had our diplomas we could just watch TV and not be all distracted" (Min)
        
        Bernie: "What a nice day we've had"... Jade: "Man, what an optometrist"
        
        Lots of exclamation points and emphatics
        
        POV: first person
        
        Again, unnamed protagonist
        
        Satirical, some humor, extravagent and hyperbolizing
      - The Barber's Unhappiness Form
        
        Chapter numbers
        
        Dialogue and description but lots of protagonist introspection
        
        Protagonist does have a name this time, possible reflecting his self-involvement rather than the other stories not having one to reflect inequality and how everyone is just a "number" to corporations
        
        POV: first person to seem real but possibly to amplify how barber-centric it is
        
        Emphatics in dialogue
- - - - The Moors
      - Othello and Race
    - - Trust
      - Jealousy
    - - Desdemona and her role as the "submissive and manipulated wife"
- - - - The Bridge
      - The train scene early in the novel
      - Tar Baby
    - - Sula and Nell's friendship
    - - Sula's treatment for sleeping with a bunch of men
    - - Sula being a social pariah
      - Eva's boarding house and its importance in the town
  - - - Suicide Day
    - - Fire
        
        Death of Hannah + Plum Peace
      - Mud
        
        Death of Sula