Select one detail from the setting that the wife provides for her tale. Explain how that detail relates to the underlying conflict between men and women in this passage.
Review Chaucer's description of the pardoner, pp. 162-163. How would you categorize the pardoner using the four humors?
Discuss the techniques that Chaucer uses to indirectly characterize the wife in the General Prologue, pp. 56-57.
Identify and explain one interesting contrast between Beowulf and Krebs. What might be the significance of this difference? Make an argument for your opinion based on the text.
Patterns are an important motif in "Soldier's Home." Compare the first two paragraphs. These are about two photographs. What patterns can you find in Hemmingway's description of these two photographs? Give one specific example.
Compare "Soldier's Home" to other texts that you have read by women. What patterns do you recognize in how Hemmingway writes about and characterizes women?
Share your ideas from today's class. What do you think one of the monsters from Beowulf means in light of Cohen's first thesis?
Reflect on the boasts delivered by your classmates: What did your classmates do well?
The monster's body is a cultural body. What do you think Cohen means by this?
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