the details and relevant materials would be attached in the files, there are 4 parts totally, each part has different words counting requirement and different number of questions, please answer each q
Details:
Watching the episode 1 and 2 from the 2004 adaption of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, and also the introduction to “The Victorian Era” (attached in the files), answer the following questions for 4 parts.
The Victorian era is characterized by their stiff collars, long novels, gritty poverty-induced squalor, and by the “rise of the middle class,” as well as well as strict morality and a desire to maintain strict social order (see canvas page and the textbook intro for more details).
All of these qualities (and others) are represented in North and South. North and South was originally serialized in Dickens’s weekly magazine Household Words before it was published in novel form. Thus, think of watching the first two episodes as reading the first two installments of the novel. It follows Margaret Hale on her journey from living in southern England as a clergyman’s daughter to living in Manchester—a northern industrial town, where she begins to understand the trials of the impoverished working class— among other things
Answer
Part 1 (350-500 words for this part totally)
Note connections between the film and your previous understanding of the Victorian era, the page on canvas and/or the introduction in the anthology—where do you see some of the ideas, history, and complications noted in the introduction in the film? How do you seem them represented or portrayed?
Track and note the assumptions people make about one another based on their class, dress, behavior, identities, etc.
Track how many references there are identity and place in the film, and note these references as well.
Also note places where you see connections to our course theme “Borders and Boundaries
What did watching these episodes show or reveal to you about the Victorian era? How did it line up with any understanding you had about this era prior to watching it? What connections did you find between the context page/intro and the TV episodes? What questions do you have about this era after having read the intro page and the episodes?
Part 2 (100-200 words for this part)
How is Victorian Marriage Portrayed in a "Manchester Marriage"?
What observations can you make about the institution and marriage culture in the 19th century from this story’s events?
Track the Marriage plot in this short story--how many marriages take place? What are they based on? (i.e. why does Alice marry Frank and why does she marry Mr. Openshaw?) What is its resolution? (i.e. what happens at the end of the story)
Part 3 (100-200 words for this part)
What connections can you make between this short story and North and South? Can you tell that it is written by the same person? What common themes do you see between the two?
Part 4 (within 100 words for this part)
What did you find most interesting for these materials?
