Poe and Repression: November 5, 2018

Focus: What do Poe’s stories teach us about repression?

1. Warming up three good things on reflections on Friday

2. Returning briefly to themes from "A Rose for Emily" and grid groups

Topic #1: Plotwise, why might Emily have killed Homer Barron and slept with his dead body for forty years?

Topic #2: On a symbolic level, what do her actions suggest? What do the details of the house symbolize? If we're looking at the house as a character, why was Homer Barron's body kept in the attic?

Topic #3: Thematically, what does this short story teach us about isolation? Insanity? What aspects of small town southern life might Faulkner be criticizing?

3. Enjoying Gothic Lesson #2: Repression

4. Listening to Edgar Allan Poe's "A Tell-Tale Heart" and analyzing the role of repression

HW:
For TOMORROW:

• Submit your memoir to Turnitin by 4:00 pm.

• Finish the “Tell-Tale Heart” questions for Gothic Mystery #2.