About Moby-Dick

1. movie: 少年Pi 的奇幻漂流 (Life of Pi) (海上孤洲)

   movie:　2012 

2. Why we read Moby-Dick?

    2-1 Lincoln's leadership

    2-2 friendship of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville

    2-3 gospel of century

    2-4 the classic of mystery of skepticism and mope

    2-5 存在主義

3. "Call me Ishmel." is one of the most famous sentence.

4. 討論了人性間的荒蕪

5. Major theme: race, democracy, existence of God, endless pursuit, quest, whiteness

6. It shows the issue of people v.s. society; people v.s. nature; people v.s. people

7. Capain Ahab (不理性) v.s. Starbuck (理性)

1. Allegory: As a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor.Allegories are typically used as literary devices or rhetorical devices that convey hidden meanings through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, and/or events, which together create the moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey.

2. Parable: A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. A parable is a type of analogy.

About Young Goodman Brown

1. It talks about the itnitiation journey.

2. the setting : forest (full of unknown posibilities) v.s. village (civilize)

3. The idea of "one stands for the rest of all." (synedoche)

4. It is also an allegory and it uses many similies and metaphors.

5. 以道德、宗教、政治作為人明有象徵性的意義。

About Edgar Allan Poe

1. 短篇小說的先驅  : "Father of American short story." He was considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre.

2. Famous work: The Raven

3. Romanticism and Modernism.

4. The use of alliteration (押頭韻)

Allitertion: Alliteration is a stylistic literary device identified by the repeated sound of the first consonant in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables of a phrase.