ENG2850 GMWA- Great Works of Literature II

Module 7 – Realism & Feminism in Norwegian Theatre

Welcome to Module 7! (2 – 2.5 hours each part)
This module is split over two weeks, as we are reading the full play Hedda Gabler over two weeks.
**Mind the spoilers in the PDF slides and part 2 content!**

PART 1: Here’s what you need to do this week:

  1. For those presenting this week (names below), please get your 5-min presentation of your class topic ready for Monday, Oct 17:

    Maggie Liu
    Deniz Kurun
    Nyasha English-Floyd
    Eden Halber
    Quanesha Blackman
    Anna Bieglarian
    Shazeen Mehmood

    Instructions are on the Assignments page. Remember: the presentation is informal: the only purpose is to share with the class your thoughts about why you chose this topic. You don’t need to have anything else figured out yet!

    Again, please let me know if you have any questions, and please don’t leave it to the last minute. Unfortunately, there will be no way to make up for this presentation as we will then have to move on with the class content, and you will not get a checkmark if you have not presented.

  2. Read from the Anthology:
    – Vol. 5: “Henrik Ibsen” (p. 2672);
    – Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen, 1891, Acts I and II. It’s a play, the pages read quick!
    *references to guns*

  3. Watch the first video lecture below. (No comments needed this week. Take a rest! Unless you would like to comment/have a question for me).

  4. Fill out the exit ticket for this lecture so I can count your participation.
    **Please note: there are two separate exit tickets for Module 7.1 (Acts I and II of the play) and 7.2 (Acts III and IV).**

Here is the first lecture (full transcript below, with slides):

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PART 2: Here’s what you need to do this week:

  1. For those who have yet to present (names below), please get your 5-min presentation of your class topic ready for Monday, Oct 24:

    Abraham Soussan
    Vaughan Roberts
    Nicholas Palmese
    Shirley Ng
    Sumin Nam
    Carolyn Mulles
    Katie Mensah
    Zhaoyang Ma

    Instructions are on the Assignments page. Remember: the presentation is informal: the only purpose is to share with the class your thoughts about why you chose this topic. You don’t need to have anything else figured out yet!

    Again, please let me know if you have any questions, and please don’t leave it to the last minute. Unfortunately, there will be no way to make up for this presentation as we will then have to move on with the class content, and you will not get a checkmark if you have not presented.

  2. Please finish reading the play: Hedda Gabler, Acts III and IV.
    *references to guns*

  3. Watch the second video lecture below. (No comments needed this week. Take a rest! Unless you would like to comment/have a question for me).

  4. Fill out the exit ticket for this lecture so I can count your participation.
    **Please note: there are two separate exit tickets for Module 7.1 (Acts I and II of the play) and 7.2 (Acts III and IV).**


Here is the second lecture:


*Please note: in the video lecture there is an inaccuracy on the slide “The Nineteenth Century in Europe”: Darwin is not actually the author of the words “survival of the fittest.” Herbert Spencer came up with this famous theory by twisting Darwin’s scientific theory of “favourable mutations more likely to survive.” Spencer used Darwin’s theory of species and applied it onto society, initiating a form of Social Darwinism to justify social selection and (pseudo)scientific racism. This has been corrected on the PDF slides below.*
(Thank you Kun Zhang for explaining this!)

Here are the PDF slides for the whole module:

ENG2850-Module-7-Henrik-Ibsen-1Download

Here is the full transcript (for both videos):

ENG2850-Module-7-Lecture-TranscriptDownload

Wanna do more? (spoilers!)

No need to come up with questions for this module, but feel free to comment below if you like! 🙂

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