Journal for Tuesday, Feb. 3 (read Acts IV and V)

Pick a character, one you might want to focus on in doing your paper

1. Find a quote by another character that describes/epitomizes your character (summarize it, quoting the key parts, and comment).

2. Find at least 3 sets of lines that seem to summarize the nature of what your character represents (values, methods, style, wit). Summarize each, quoting the key parts and commenting on what these signify about the character.

3. Decide what other character (by representing contrasting values, style, methods, situation, role) helps further define the nature of what your character represents. Then give particulars (or a quote) and explain.

4. At the end of the journal, put down a question that interests you and that might be the focus of your paper. It must be something that entails looking closely at quotes for evidence and finding out something about the nature of marriage or gender relationships or wit. (It should involve looking closely at quotes as evidence and perhaps using another character or characters for comparison.)

Food for Thought:

Witwoud calls Petulant a "speaker of shorthand" and Petulant calls Witwoud an "annihilator of sense."

Witwoud uses similes– not metaphors! How might this stylistic difference strand for (at the sentence level) what we’ve been talking about with regard to values/aims/definition of intelligence?

Art= "achieving personhood"? affectation = trying but not succeeding–