Tom's Infidelity

Read the following article: http://voices.yahoo.com/the-truth-men-women-cheating-4872562.html?cat=41 Then, using The Great Gatsbyand your own personal philosophy, analyzetheconcept of infidelity.

Words 1-83 (Today's Words Included)...

The test on Thursday will cover the first EIGHTY (80) words.

1.      patronizing   

2.      repress        

3.      pragmatic       

4.      reticent   

5.      capricious    

6.      frivolous

7.      ignominious   

8.      squalor    

9.      subjective       

10. objective   

11. vulnerable    

12. anomaly

13. revere       

14. pretentious    

15. condescending   

16. alleviate   

17. uncanny    

18. conventional

19. vilify       

20. slander    

21. trepidation       

22. turbulence   

23. puritanical    

24. crucible

25. rapturous       

26. languish    

27. indulge       

28. hedonism   

29. convoluted    

30. abstention

31. misanthrope   

32. avarice        

33. recoil       

34. enervate   

35. meek        

36. averse

37. relinquish       

38. dissension

39. rue

40. disseminate

41. disdain

42. chastise

43. contempt

44. spurn

45. scorn

46. surreptitious

47. malice

48. stringency

49. iniquity

50. iniquitous

51. malevolent

52. malicious

53. valor

54. valorous       

55. amoral

56. maniacal

57. compelling—evoking interest, attention, or admiration in a powerfully irresistible way

58. daunting—seemingly difficult to deal with; intimidating

59. cunning—having or showing skill in achieving one's ends by deceit or evasion

60. aspersion— an attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something

a.      The verb “asperse” means to attack the integrity of someone.

61. compunction—a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that follows the doing of something bad; remorse

62. absolution (n)—freedom from blame, sin, guilt; clemency; exculpation

1. verb—absolve

63. exculpation—(n) freedom from guilt or blame; clemency; absolution
1. verb-exculpate
64. limpid- clear, transparent
65. latent- hidden but capable of being exposed abigail's intentions were latent in the community

69. archetypal (adj)—
70. quintessential (adj)—
71. ambivalent (adj)—not having strong feelings of like or dislike; not affected; unsure; hesitant; of two minds
72. affluent (adj)—rich; wealthy

71. bombastic (adj)—pompous; pretentious

72. opulent (adj)—wealthy; lavish; luxurious
73.  supercilious (adj)—excessively proud; arrogant
74.  cajole (v)—coax; wheedle; flatter; sweet talkremoved (adj)—distant; detached; uninvolved
75. bigoted (adj)—racist; prejudiced; biased; xenophobiccomplacent (adj)—often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied
76. complacent (adj)—often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied
77. languid (adj)—lacking in spirit or interest; listless; indifferent
78. discomfit (v)— humiliate; to make someone feel uneasy
79. divert (v)—deflect; distract; change direction
80. disputatious (adj)—inclined to argue
81. intimation (n)—a hint; an insinuation; a suggestion; a warning
1. to intimate (v)—to suggest; to hint
82. enigma (n)—a mysterious or puzzling object/person; a person who is difficult to understand
1. enigmatic (adj)—puzzling; mysterious
83. pine (v)—to yearn for; suffer a mental and physical decline, esp. because of a broken heart

5: An Author's Legacy

Watch the following video:

Arthur Miller states that a great play must inform the people of their societies' problems.  It is true that authors--after death--leave their legacies behind, specifically what infuriated them about their societies.  Considering this philosohpy, decide upon the most powerful point Arthur Miller conveyed to people.  Argue your point by supporting it with evidence from the text.

4: The Importance of a Title

        The word “crucible” is used once in the play but for an important reason; it is its title.  With that point made, the word "crucible"  has two definitions: (1) “severe test” and (2) "a ceramic or metal container in which metals or other substances may be melted or subjected to very high temperatures." Discuss the meaning of the title and its connection to the play.  You must support your claims with thorough evidence from the text.  How is it an effective title?  You may also discuss the importance and connotation of “heat” in the play.

Notes from Today

VOCABULARY WORDS FOR 5/9

72. supercilious (adj)—excessively proud; arrogant

SAMPLE SENTENCE:

73.  cajole (v)—coax; wheedle; flatter; sweet talk

SAMPLE SENTENCE:

Then, copy down this quote at the top of a blank sheet of paper:

It was an extraordinary gift of hope…such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.  No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily close out my interest in the abortive (fruitless/without a product) sorrows and short-winded (short-lived/not lasting) elations (ecstasy) of men (HUMANS).

1. Extraordinary—amazing—positive connotation (other words with positive connotations from passage: hope, gift, dreams, elations)—GATSBY—From these words, Gatsby is characterized as a good man.
2. Prey—hunted (Animals that are hunted: rabbits, mice, deer—animals of innocence/purity)  This word choice illuminates Gatsby’s vulnerability, innocence, and purity.  He is the prey.  It also emphasizes Gatsby’s helplessness in the situation.
3. It—The thing/the person—The story, although titled The Great Gatsby, is really about the “it” that preyed upon Jay Gatsby.  The narrator chooses to tell this story because he is truly bothered by what preyed upon Gatsby.  Thus, the focus of the story is the “it” and not GATSBY himself.  The “it” is what changes our narrator.  The “it” closes our narrator off from society.
4. IT—FOUL DUST—PREDATOR—Right from the start, our narrator indicates to us that it is a battle between GOOD (GATSBY) AND BAD (IT).
5. wake—funeral—The word “wake hints at/provides us with the image of death. It also brings to mind the image of water (waves).  It highlights the concept of the rippling effects of water.
6. From the last section of this passage, we can see that this experience had a traumatizing effect on our narrator.  He feels that sorrows are useless and that happiness is always short-lived.

3: Arthur Miller's Intention

        Read the following excerpt from an interview with Arthur Miller.  Throughout the year, we have discussed that an author writes to expose the injustices he/she sees in the world.  With this in mind, were Miller's intentions  SUCCESSFULLY AND EFFECTIVELY conveyed through The Crucible.  Use one (1) THOROUGH EXAMPLE in your response to support your claim. 

Miller’s response to why he wrote the play:

…I wished for a play that would show the sin of public terror as it divests man of conscience, of himself. I had known of the Salem witch hunt for many years before “McCarthyism” had arrived and it had always remained in inexplicable darkness to me. When I looked into it now, however, it was with the contemporary situation at my back, particularly the mystery of the handing over of conscience, which seemed to me the central and informing fact of the time. The central impulse for writing was not the social, but the interior psychological question of that guilt rising in Salem which the hysteria merely unleashed, but did not create. Consequently, the structure reflects that understanding, and it centers on John, Elizabeth, and Abigail.

NOTE: You may have to look up some of the vocabulary to truly understand Miller's point.

2: Elizabeth Proctor's Dilemma

Watch the video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=Y_MeLaZuKYs&feature=endscreen


In a well-developed paragraph, discuss your interpretation of Elizabeth Proctor.  How do you see her dilemma?  What does it say about her if she willingly lied in court about John?  Remind yourself of Act 2 because in that scene she will not let him forget his sin.

REMEMBER:  The quote worksheet...