The English Paper
So I have to write this paper. The prompt is
With cunning reference to any three of the following texts, discuss some of the aspects of, and problems associated with, the interconnected notions of wisdom and folly: "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale," "The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale," any one of the Old English elegies, and "Dr. Faustus." Choose carefully (weirdly).
I was thinking of using this line from the Wanderer as the base for my essay. It goes, "A man should forbear boastmaking / until his fierce mind fully knows / which way his spleen shall expend itself.
That like saying...use your heart first before your head. That's the irony I see in the Pardoner's Tale and Faustus. They don't use their heart. The just go with what their mind tell em. For example, the 3 men, just thing of their greed and not using their heart to love their friends or something like that. And Faustus also, he's just expanding his mind. Learning the dark arts and stuff. But at the end, he finally listens to himself. And there is goodness still in his heart that he should be condemned. Something like that.
I do'nt know how I can expand on the wanderer. I can say. His heart is right and he probably will stop wandering. And use his heart to find his new master, eh?
So what do you think of it?
And I think I can just talk about one right, like wisdom and not refer to folly. Also, the TA., she's looking for this, look for microcosm (Small moments in the texts that just capcilate their moments of wisdom or foolishness).
You know I can even look at the sense of humor between wisdom and folly, that's what some other students are doing. Hmmm. or Book Learning MOrality vs. Wisdom. But how does folly fall into that? okay. What do you think?
With cunning reference to any three of the following texts, discuss some of the aspects of, and problems associated with, the interconnected notions of wisdom and folly: "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale," "The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale," any one of the Old English elegies, and "Dr. Faustus." Choose carefully (weirdly).
I was thinking of using this line from the Wanderer as the base for my essay. It goes, "A man should forbear boastmaking / until his fierce mind fully knows / which way his spleen shall expend itself.
That like saying...use your heart first before your head. That's the irony I see in the Pardoner's Tale and Faustus. They don't use their heart. The just go with what their mind tell em. For example, the 3 men, just thing of their greed and not using their heart to love their friends or something like that. And Faustus also, he's just expanding his mind. Learning the dark arts and stuff. But at the end, he finally listens to himself. And there is goodness still in his heart that he should be condemned. Something like that.
I do'nt know how I can expand on the wanderer. I can say. His heart is right and he probably will stop wandering. And use his heart to find his new master, eh?
So what do you think of it?
And I think I can just talk about one right, like wisdom and not refer to folly. Also, the TA., she's looking for this, look for microcosm (Small moments in the texts that just capcilate their moments of wisdom or foolishness).
You know I can even look at the sense of humor between wisdom and folly, that's what some other students are doing. Hmmm. or Book Learning MOrality vs. Wisdom. But how does folly fall into that? okay. What do you think?