Tag: Novel’s trajectory

Discuss one character’s trajectory in the film. How do they change or not change? Is this character a “good” or “bad” character or are those terms too simplistic?

Crash, Paul Haggis 2004 Film

Discussion about the film, Crash (Paul Haggis 2004).

Briefly answer the following questions about the film:

What are your overall thoughts? (This may be informal!  just want initial reactions).

Discuss one character’s trajectory in the film. How do they change or not change? Is this character a “good” or “bad” character or are those terms too simplistic? Give at least one example from the movie to help back up your thoughts.

How can this film relate back to the theme of social sustainability, communities, and/or culture? (You may choose one small aspect of this very broad themes-you do not have to tackle all of it!)

Link to the free online movie:

What is the symbolic significance of the lighthouse? Discuss it in relation to the novel’s trajectory as well as individual characters’ relationships to it.

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Write an essay in which you identify and explore the painterly images associated with Mrs. Ramsay. Use them to elaborate the relationship between Mrs. Ramsay and Lily Briscoe as well as Mrs. Ramsay and Mr. Ramsay.

What is the symbolic significance of the lighthouse? Discuss it in relation to the novel’s trajectory as well as individual characters’ relationships to it.

Compare the first and last sentence of the novel. Make a claim about the critical significance of these lines and how they help to elaborate the underlying relational structures of the novel.

Consider gender in the text and make a claim about Woolf’s view of femininity and masculinity in the text. In what ways are women shaped by expectations of them? But what about the men?

Consider the stream of consciousness mode of storytelling that prevails throughout the novel and the claim by many critics that for Woolf’s fiction the action is on the inside. What truths about human psychology and relationality might this technique reveal?