Thyestes
Experience: Righteousness
Narrative Technology: Revenge Plot
"O my Imagination! Hatch a deed so far beyond the norm that posterity will never forget."
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
Père Goriot
Experience: Righteousness
Narrative Technology: Revenge Plot
"The novel culminated with the burial of its title character, Father Goriot, a kindly pasta merchant who'd spent all his wealth to keep his daughters happy. Yet the daughters were too self-involved to attend Father Goriot's funeral, and even the priest himself wasn't interested; after reciting the short prayer he'd been paid to perform, he fled the scene unceremoniously. Soon there remained only one mourner, young Eugene Rastignac, to shed a melancholy tear" (Fletcher 235) (determining to avenge this insult by seducing one of the ungrateful daughters)
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
Experience: Righteousness
Narrative Technology: Moral Suasion
"For a young boy, it was too much for me to bear…My heart almost broke with grief…I was born a slave--and many a time, like old Job, I've cussed the day I was born" and "She would beat me until I could hardly stand…. They whipped me until I hardly had any feeling....Master become a very devil--he 'bused me and other folks most all-killin'ly" (114).
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025