honors british lit fall final 2025

conroy

CDW paragraph

claim (what) data (text evidence) warrant (why)

thomas hobbes

man is nasty, brutish, and short; states should be governed by a sovereign; man is inherently animalistic

john locke

tabula rasa (blank slate at birth) nature vs nurture (NATURE); positive; equal right; body of people should govern a state

theory of personality

each personality has a large unconscious component

unconscious mind

memories, impulses, and desires that are not available to consciousness; responsible for dreams

id

instincts "i want NOW" (jack)

ego

perceived self "not yet- just WAIT"

super ego

conscience "you are BAD for doing that" (piggy)

iceberg

ego /// superego (on side) /// id

anxiety origins

comes from the id wanting something but cant for being punished by the superego

displacement

express in a discuised form to avoid punishment

repression

brains hiding memory from unaware traumas

suppression

sit on impulses

projection

project onto another person (ex: bullies)

George Orwell

wrote 1984; explored how the poor lived

totalitarianism

regulates all aspects of peoples lives

stalin

communist dictator; increased industrial mechanisms cause of widespread famine; deported minorities; 1930 - the great purge

propaganda

information (biased of misleading) that is used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view

proscriptive

how things are

prescriptive

how things should be

penopticon

possibility of being watched but never know if or if not

Ralph

democratic and structure (allied powers)

the conch

order and authority (law and order)

Piggy

dehumanized and scapegoated (Jewish citizens)

Piggy's glasses

creates savagery (nuclear weapons) and hope/rescue (Jewish other live)

Jack

violence and bossy and feat based (hitler/other dictators)

Roger

violent and deflector and cruelty (josef mengele, hitlers assistant)

the pigs head

hatred and savagery (swastika, sacrifice, scapegoat)

Simon

innocents (jewish persecution and religion during wwII)

the fire (lotf)

symbolizes state of civilization (calm --> desctruction)

the Navy admiral

rescue and reestablish (allies save from German troops and control)

more than its gonna hurt you: concerning violence

symbolic of human suffering and injustice (shootings etc or death and suffering) ex: vampire diaries

now where have i seen her before

patterns in history tv books etc; stories stem off of each other; ex: escape rooms

it's never just heart disease… and rarely just illness

heart problems might symbolize weakness (physical or mental); lonely, broken, cruelty, corruption; ex: tony stark, the grinch

he's blind for a reason, you know

ignorance; fortune tellers; other senses are strengthened; ex: cyclops= one eye and blinded, vulnerability

it's all about sex…

started with freud; tall buildings, keys and locks, stairs (phallic symbol); ex: the simpsons (R in PG13) or shrek (double meanings)

…except sex

symbolizes power, identity, growth, and trust; ex: stranger things (when barb dies bc steve and nancy are abt to screw)

when in doubt, its from shakespeare…

authors borrow shakespeare in lots of writing; ex: lion king = hamlet, lord of flies = macbeth

… or the bible ***

writers also borrow from the bible; ex: lion witch and wardrobe, the matrix

it's more than just rain or snow ***

rain - calm/change snow - isolation/purity; ex: frozen

if she comes up it's baptism ***

baptism - connection to religion or survival of water; ex: moana, jack lotf falls into pool

geography matters… ***

symbolic meaning of places; representation of peoples character; ex: lion king - returning to pride rock

… so does season ***

spring = rebirth summer = freedom fall=reflection winter=ending yearly cycle ; example: lion witch and wardrobe, inside out

nice to eat you: acts of vampires

vampirism - acts of selfishness and exploitism; outworn and dated values; rape; ex: julius caesar

nice to eat with you: acts of communion

breaking bread - peace, religion, community; importance of sharing a meal; ex: christmas story (when at the chinese restaurant), lotf feast (animalistic)

original sin

adam and eve eating apple in garden when told not to- created a stain on humanity

tabula rasa

blank slate

plato's allegory of the cave

explores the notion of belief, illusion, knowledge and truth; fire and shadows

nature vs nurture

name for a controversy in which it is debated whether genetics or environment is responsible for driving behavior

social contract theory

belief that people are free and equal by natural right and that this in turn requires that all people give their consent to be governed; john locke

milgram experiment

an experiment devised in 1961 by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, to see how far ordinary people would go to obey a scientific authority figure

stanford prison experiment

Philip Zimbardo's study of the effect of roles on behavior; participants were randomly assigned to play either prisoners or guards in a mock prison; the study was ended early because of the mock guard's role-induced cruelty towards the mock prisoners

Bad Apples/Bad Barrels Argument

are the people inherently bad or are their surroundings what make them bad

Foucault's Panopticon

metaphor for modern societal control, where internalized surveillance makes individuals monitor and discipline themselves; constant potential observation shapes behavior