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ENG 45C, burdens of time & history - Coggle Diagram

- - - - connects to Williams & Pound in showing how business dehumanizes people
        
        Williams blames America's lack of tradition
        
        Pound believes there's a need for discipline to rise above emotion
    - - connects to Eliot by promoting strict artistic standards
        
        argues for discipline, clear art over generalized, sentimental emotional work that most tend to like
    - - connects to Melville Bartleby as it critiques capitalism & structural indifference
  - - - connects to Hurston as both show cultural struggle
        
        Achebe depicts patriarchy being destroyed
        
        Hurston depicts a woman escaping it & claiming her voice
    - - connects to H.D. "Eurydice"
        
        both demonstrate women asserting independence through defiance & self-expression
        
        Janie reclaiming her identity outside of marriage
        
        H.D.'s finding her own light even in hell
    - - connects to Woolf as her characters also feel the emptiness of modern life (Peter Walsh)
        
        often describing themselves as "hollowed out, utterly empty within"
    - - poems ending image "or does it explode?" demonstrates the high cost of systemic failure to trauma & fear
        
        connects to isolation & emotional trauma category
- - - - Beckett "Waiting for Godot" - dialogue constantly disrupted by absurdity
        
        debating hanging selves to get erections
        
        using distractions to try to stay sane while endlessly waiting
        
        connects to Faulkner & Melville by turning hopelessness into dark, comic action & reveals how characters prove their existence through sound when isolated
    - - Joyce "The Dead" uses sharp, subtle humor drawn from social observations
        
        Gabriel Conroy's embarrassment after Lily's comment abt "men that is now is only all palaver"
        
        his worry over misquoting literature --> class anxiety & desire to appear cultured
        
        connects to Achebe in critiquing social performance
        
        Joyce exposes pretentiousness of Dublin society
        
        Achebe uses a darkly comic funeral to reveal the community life Okonkwo misses
      - Melville "Bartleby"
        lawyer's careful, detached descriptions of the quirky clerks (Turkey & Nippers) reveals the deadpan - satirical comedy tone being set in the Wall Street world
        
        connects to Faulkner through shared use of unreliable (/unusual) narratives (lawyer's arrogant self-justification who delivers social critiques) similar to how Faulkner narrated Jason IV's perspective
      - Achebe "Things Fall Apart"
        
        Unoka's use of proverbs & humor to dodge his debts --> satirical
        "the sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them"
        
        joke ^ to hide his financial failure & Okonkwo's shame
        
        connects to Hurston as both focus on speech as a performance --> Hurston's utilizes humor, bragging, and "signifyin"
- - - - James "The Turn of the Screw"
        
        governess isolated by her subjective, anxious perspective of events
        
        believes she alone can see the children's hidden corruption
        
        like Poe, both explore a personal reality that is so intense its almost just madness -- the character's inner fears leave them isolated from others
      - Woolf "Mrs. Dalloway"
        
        stream of consciousness --> shows depth of the character's inner lives
        
        sound of Big Ben sparks non-linear memories & self-reflections leading Clarissa to feel fully aware of herself
        
        like Faulkner they both use inner consciousness to reveal emotional truths
        
        Woolf's focus is on social pressures as Faulkner's exposes broken mental states (especially through Benjy)
      - Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
        
        internal monologue reveals anxiety, indecision, and social fears
        
        thoughts shift between external details and internal paralyzing doubts
        
        connects to Woolf's use of consciousness to portray non-linear memory & self-reflection
      - Yeats "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
        
        expresses desire to escape urban life for solitude and peace
        
        similar to Williams as reflects modern tension btw inner needs & societal pressures
    - - Poe "The Man of the Crowd"
        
        narrator is fascinated by an old man whose face suggests "excessive terror, of extreme despair" & as if hiding involvement in "deep crime"
        
        unreadable expression reveals isolation that's within busy cities too
        
        connects to Melville as they both portray characters who are unreachable and lonely
        
        Bartleby, like the old man, lives in "miserable friendlessness and loneliness" on Wall Street
        
        Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" parallels Beckett's isolated characters & Poe's isolation in the city
      - Beckett "Waiting for Godot"
        the characters exists in a state of waiting & boredom meant to keep their minds from losing reason
        
        reveals the absurdity of them representing "all mankind" yet are alone and unable to act
        
        connects to Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" Septimus
        
        both face war trauma & feel time has stopped
        
        Septimus feels the world is drained of color
        Vladimir believes "time has stopped"
      - Hurston "Their Eyes Were Watching God" - Janie finds her true self after separating her real inner life from her marriage role --> allows soul to "crawl from its hiding place"
        
        connects to Williams as both seek authenticity
        
        Janie succeeds in finding her true self
        
        American "pure products" in Williams have no real roots and end up with numbing fear
      - Hughes "The Weary Blues"
        
        conveys sadness through blues music
        
        highlights internalized suffering & emotional drain
        
        as many other pieces, (Woolf's Septimus, Beckett) mirrors isolated characters due to being drained from societal expectations
      - Williams "Spring and All"
        
        setting & imagery heavily reflect profound isolation
        
        environment described as "by the road to the contagious hospital"
        
        "enter the new world naked, / cold, uncertain of all"
        
        cold uncertainty aligns w. trauma and isolation