Le Cid
Experience: Identification
Narrative Technology: Soliloquy
"My father or my bethrothed? Love or honor?/ Duty's harsh bonds or the heart's sweet tyranny?/ Either my happiness dies, or my name is ruined;/ One is bitter, the other unthinkable."
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
Hamlet
Experience: Identification
Narrative Technology: Soliloquy
To be or not be/ That is the question:/Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer/ The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune/ Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,/ And by opposing, end them?
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Experience: Identification
Narrative Technology: Soliloquy
Huck was torn between "his wish to save himself by acting like an angel--and his desire to save his friend Jim by lying, cheating, and stealing" (Fletcher 296).
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Experience: Identification
Narrative Technology: Soliloquy
Werther is torn between "his love for Charlotte--and his admiration for Charlotte's betrothed" (Fletcher 296).
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January 9, 2025
Robinson Crusoe
Experience: Identification
Narrative Technology: Soliloquy
Crusoe is torn between "his hunger for adventure and his aspiration to settle down, work hard, and enjoy a life of honest prosperity" (Fletcher 296)
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January 9, 2025
Odyssey
Experience: Gratification
Narrative Technology: Wish Fulfillment
"a mortal man who outwits the gods, talks with the dead, feasts on endless ox flesh and Dionysian drink, enjoys the most gorgeous music in history, spends seven years in the embrace of a nymph and another year in the bed of a beautiful witch, and finally returns home to find his ageless wife waiting faithfully" (Fletcher 168).
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025