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News. Folders—no comments today but comments for Tuesday—SO—please tell me which paragraph you would like to me take a look at by scoring yourself in 3 areas: TS Details / Interpretation Cultural Context
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News • Folders—no comments today but comments for Tuesday—SO—please tell me which paragraph you would like to me take a look at by scoring yourself in 3 areas: • TS • Details / Interpretation • Cultural Context • Conclusions: Your ideas about where America stands with the tension you have studied today—this should be a long discussion—a big fat paragraph or two, not just a topic sentence!
Thesis Statements • Answering a Guiding Question: What do the texts I have studied in this essay say about the tension between ______ and ______? • Final sentence of intro • Umbrella • Range: Texts and images of Pocahontas demonstrate the Americans have at times exalted high culture over low culture and at other times have scored high culture and celebrated low culture as truly American. • List / Inventory Thesis: The Pocahontas engraving, the final scene in The Indian Princess, and romantic scenes from Disney Pocahontas and Avatar all suggest that ultimately Americans still value female subordination over equality.
Passage Quest • Two Passages • Connect each to a cultural tension • What does each say about the cultural tension you have chosen? • Van Rough: Now, a time for a young woman to laugh is when she has made sure of a rich, good husband. Now, a time to cry, according to you Mary, is when she is making choice with him, but I think that a young woman’s time to cry is when she despaired of getting one (49) • Act I, Scene 2 of The Contrast espouses attitudes of traditional subordination over emerging ideals of female equality. For Van Rough marriage is what defines a woman, so his Maria should be happy when she finds a “rich, good husband” and sad only when she despairs of getting any husband at all. But his daughter, Maria, longs for a new ideal of romantic marriage that sanctifies her equal right to choose a partner. At this point in the play, Van Rough is not willing to permit that, but in many ways the play is an effort to talk Van Rough into agreeing with a new romantic ideal even as he maintains some control over his daughter’s life.
