Test tomorrow: Wednesday

2/19 Test - Wednesday

1. Quote ID - Speaker & Audience

2. Passage analysis

3. Short essay: 

Consider the love triangle with Mr. Rochester, Jane, and Mrs. Ingram. 

• How does each character define love? Provide specific examples and quotes.
• How does unrequited love play a role? 
• And how is there dramatic irony in your second reading of the text?
• You may bring notes with quotes to class for only this part of the test. 

(Hint: Review Twitter quotes and questions...)

Optional viewing - you might find connections as it asks: What is Love?

(You can click the gear - and use the subtitles obviously if you don't know French.)

Beginning Transcript:

What is love? It's a hard term to define in so far as it has a very wide application. I can love jogging. I can love a book, a movie. I can love escalopes. I can love my wife. (Laughter)

But there's a great difference between an escalope and my wife, for instance. That is, if I value the escalope, the escalope, on the other hand, it doesn't value me back. Whereas my wife, she calls me the star of her life. (Laughter)

Therefore, only another desiring conscience can conceive me as a desirable being. I know this, that's why love can be defined in a more accurate way as the desire of being desired.Hence the eternal problem of love: how to become and remain desirable?

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