CPLT 389W Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Weather-Related Cancellation, Toni Morrison, Memory
12 Oct 2018
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CPLT 389W
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
JANE AUSTEN MANSFIELD PARK DISCUSSION (snow day)
CPLT Notes
Jane Austen - born in 1775
Austen grew up poor? Didn’t grow up wealthy, but was still gentry, had many brothers
that took inheritance
Family moved around a lot, relied on charity of relatives
Died at 41 of some cancer (?)
Mansfield Park: 1814 published
Was not as popular, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice published
beforehand
1. Some critics think Mansfield was a purist approach? Was influenced by her own life
possibly
2. Some critics think it stands out bc it’s a satire
Several of her books were published posthumously
MANSFIELD PARK
Main Events
-3 sisters marry
-1 sister isolated
- Fanny lives w the Bertrams and is shook
-Edmund and Fanny band
-Sir TB goes to Antigua
-RIP Mr. Norris
-grants move in
-Maria is engaged to Mr. Rushworth
-Crawford also move in
-Everyone ignores Fanny
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CPLT-389
DEBATE NOTES
Position on the issue of the statue removal: Supports the side that vouches for removal.
Reasons for doing so: 1. I personally feel that when a statue is erected, especially of a person, it
is to honor the thing or person that it has erected. A statue is a monument that is more often than
not, looked fondly upon. It is a symbol of history that represents, again more often than not, an
achievement or victory of that time period being represented, and it is meant to last forever.
However, not every significant object, person, or thing in history triggers such fond memories
and markers of achievement or victory historically, and this is certainly the case of the Robert E.
Lee Statue. It’s just how some people, objects, or things, (even some time periods!) if
immortalized, would bring about the grief
and struggles of that time period back for many
individuals. It just wouldn’t be fair for those individuals.
2. Specifically in this case of the Robert E. Lee statue (but which can be altered to fit other
historical cases of this nature, as well) the statue itself is a hallmark of white supremacy. As this
great NY Times
article states, “White elites showed their thanks by erecting Confederate
monuments...the Lee monument and others like it have assisted the cause of white supremacy
and the deadly violence that has accompanied it. This is why communities across the region have
a moral obligation to take up the cause of removing them. Artifacts of hate will be lost, but their
history and meaning will not.” Essentially, monuments such as these perpetuate the hate and
false superiority some political, social, and racial groups may have, which is why they need to be
immediately removed.
3. This may be far-fetched, but I’m just going to go for it. I feel like this conversation itself--the
fact that this is such an etched, heated debate even today--is means enough for the need of the
removal of these statues. Should the statues remain up, we will always be fighting about them,
divided as a people. It’s also true that there will be an outcry once these statues are removed, as
well. But groups that vie for the statue’s upkeeping can find outlets for their beloved supremacist
(or purely misguided, or even ignorant) history in other ways. For those whose history is
silenced, quashed, or pretty much upheaved by the signifying factor behind such statues, it would
be a relief, which I guess goes back to the first point, in a way. Keeping up those statues just
wouldn’t be fair for those individuals.
Sources
Cox, Karen L. Why Confederate Monuments Must Fall. The New York Times, The New York Times, 15
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Document Summary
Didn"t grow up wealthy, but was still gentry, had many brothers that took inheritance. Family moved around a lot, relied on charity of relatives. Was influenced by her own life possibly: some critics think it stands out bc it"s a satire. Fanny lives w the bertrams and is shook. Everyone ignores fanny and struggles of that time period back for many. Position on the issue of the statue removal : supports the side that vouches for removal. I personally feel that when a statue is erected, especially of a person, it is to honor the thing or person that it has erected. A statue is a monument that is more often than not, looked fondly upon. It is a symbol of history that represents, again more often than not, an achievement or victory of that time period being represented, and it is meant to last forever.
