The specific requirements are included in the details, and you need to following the guideline to do the task, answer the questions and meet the words requirements for each part. No other source can
Part 1 (need 350-500 words for 5 questions in part 1 totally)
The following five questions are about the film “Crimson Peak”, please answer them one by one (the movie can be found in there, but it is not completely, it lacks of one part: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6cehoh)
Note connections between Crimson Peak and other works and eras we’ve studied (compared with novel “Dracula”). What does watching a modern film’s use of these aspects add to our understanding of nineteenth-century literature or culture?
How is the trope of the new woman and/or “the angel in the house” represented, subverted, or otherwise portrayed in the film? What does this add/contribute to your understanding of women in the nineteenth-century? What is different about the film’s characterization of Edith? What insights does a modern use of this trope offer us?
Note the characteristics of “the gothic” represented in the film. How are they utilized? What issues in this film are subverted through the use of “the gothic”?
What does mapping modern horror film conventions onto a Victorian marriage plot add to our understanding of Victorian narratives? How has the film adapted Victorian literary conventions for a modern audience? What makes it appealing to an audience in 2015?
Note the various technologies used in Crimson Peak. How are they used or discussed in the film? How might this film represent progress and change at the turn-of-the century?
Part 2:
Pick one of the question from the part 1 which you found the most compelling, interesting, or useful) and expand about your response by writing a short paragraph (around 150 words) that engages with the question by connecting it with particular scenes, qualities of the film (either visual or plot), or some other tangible aspect of the film.
Part 3: Annotation and answering for poem “the Darkling Thrush”
Annotated the poem “The Darkling Thrush” by Thomas Hardy, need have at least 7 annotations (your understanding for annotation must be original), and answer the following question in 150-250 words
Question:
Hardy often positions himself as a poet of the past or as an " poet of the old tragic world." He does not begin writing poetry until quite late in life and is watching the world transition from the 19th to 20th century, often feeling as if he does not belong. His Poem "The Darkling Thrush" is written on New Years eve at the turn-of-the-century. Based on your reading of the poem, explore Hardy's role as a poet of the past that is also looking toward the future. Does he seem to be hopeful about the future? Why or why not? ;What does he seem to be saying about the relationship between the past and the present? Are they completely distinguishable? Point to specific parts of the poem to support your response.
* As such, you should be thinking about this question in your annotations.
The Darkling Thrush
BY THOMAS HARDY
I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.
The land's sharp features seemed to be
The Century's corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I.
At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.
So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.
