Vocab quiz today.
Quizlet Scarlet Letter Vocab #5 "pallid" to "expiation" (but skip embowed and eldritch)
Watch Dead Poets Society. Take notes on characteristics of Romantic thought in the film.
Example sentences for words "pallid" to end
Two stories to read for fun (and practice)
I walked into the woods alone. My friends told me not to, but I was dauntless. As I wandered deeper into the woods, and I found an old, extant house. I ventured deeper into the basement and discovered a cabalistic ritual. The figures were morbid and pallid, surrounded by a panoply of ancient tomes along the walls. I felt the exigency to vacate the dankness of this wretched pit that surrounded my being. But before I could flee the premises, the dark robed figures stood as one. That is when I felt their ethereal blades pierce my flesh and rend my soul from my body. I saw nothing but dark cloth.
The man was no longer looking through his own eyes, but rather surveying the scene from above. It was a horribly morbid sight, and if the man had been in his own body he would have felt ill, but he was not. In fact, it was his body that he was looking upon. The pallid corpse lay embowed on a stone table, ribs nearly stabbing through the flesh of the emaciated figure. A cart still good to the left of the stone table, a panopoly of knives and other instruments lay upon it, lined up next to a large leather tome. The body- looking back upon it- was bloody, the hair matted and the chest stained. The man puzzled over this. Clearly, the cadaver was his own, yet even as he looked upon it he was sure he was still extant- he was conscious, at the very least, if not in his own flesh and blood. It was this certainty that spread the man's dauntlessness and (somehow, though without any physical being he was unsure of the exact actions he took) he turns the pages of the book, staring horrified at the images that filled the yellow pages. Gruesome forms stared at him from the pages, mutilated bodies and mangled forms that seems to float before his eyes. The man felt an exigency to slam the book shut, but he could not, for another man had entered the room. This man strode to the table, stood next to the body, picked up one of the knives – one that was perhaps 4 inches length, and ribbed. He raised it carefully. It glimmered in the dim light of the room. There was a flash of silver, a stabbing pain, and suddenly he was in his body once more – he was not dead after all. Agony flooded through him, spreading to each limb, each joint, every appendage. He thought he was dead when he had looked upon his body, but he knew that he was not dead, but dying. The knife a leech that was slowly ebbing away his life force. Slowly, his vision faded, his body weakened, and soon, the man was no longer alive.
2. Discuss: Should Dimesdale have confessed? (259) (285); (303); (341-3);
(381 why hasn't D found peace?) (389 sanctity of the human heart);
Compare to YGBrown (435-439) (506-50
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