IAH 221C midterm. No books, no notes, no electronic devices.Write on three (3) passages. Identify author and title of work, and place the passage in the work's progress. Discuss what you see as significant in the passage itself, and then build that commentary out into a discussion of the whole, a small essay. You must identify the work and discuss it to receive any credit--no partial credit for discussion or identification. Each passage is worth 5 points.
1. PEGEEN. And to think it's me is talking sweetly, Christy Mahon, and I the fright of seven townlands for my biting tongue. Well, the heart’s a wonder; and, I’m thinking, there won't be our like in Mayo, for gallant lovers, from this hour to-day. (Drunken singing is heard outside.) There's my father coming from the wake, and when he's had his sleep we'll tell him, for he'speaceful then.
2. Magistrate: It is best you should know all. He did it on account of a love affair with the murdered man's wife.
Mrs. Fallon: (Sitting down.) With Jack Smith's wife! With Kitty Keary!—Ochone, the traitor!
Smith's
3. Keegan. ….(Broadbent and Larry look quickly at one another; for this, unless the priest is an old financial hand, must be inspiration); you will get rid of its original shareholders efficiently after efficiently ruining them; and you will finally profit very efficiently by getting that hotel for a few shillings in the pound (More and more sternly.) Besides these efficient operations, you will foreclose your mortgages most efficiently (his rebuking forefinger goes up in spite of himself); you will drive Haffigan to America very efficiently; you will find a use for Barney Doran's foul mouth and bullying temper by employing him to slave-drive your laborers very efficiently; and (low and bitter) when at last this poor desolate countryside becomes a busy mint in which weshall all slave to make money for you, with our Polytechnic to teach us how to do it efficiently, and our library to fuddle the few imaginations your distilleries will spare, and our repaired round tower with admission sixpence, and refreshments and penny-in-the-slot mutoscopes to make it interesting, then no doubt your English and American shareholders will spend all the money we make for them very efficiently in shooting and hunting, in operations for cancer and appendicitis, in gluttony and gambling; and you will devote what they save to fresh land development schemes. For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this fooIish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.
4 Often when he had confessed his doubts and scruples—some momentary inattention at prayer, a movement of trivial anger in his soul, or a subtle wilfulness in speech or act—he was bidden by his confessor to name some sin of his past life before absolution was given him. He named it with humility and shame and repented of it once more. It humiliated and shamed him to think that he would never be freed from it wholly, however holily he might live or whatever virtues or perfections he might attain. A restless feeling of guilt would always be present with him: he
would confess and repent and be absolved, confess and repent again and be absolved again, fruitlessly. Perhaps that first hasty confession wrung from him by the fear of hell had not been good? Perhaps, concerned only for his imminent doom, he had not had sincere sorrow for his sin? But the surest sign that his confession had been good and that he had had sincere sorrow for his sin was, he knew, the amendment of his life.
—I have amended my life, have I not? He asked himself.
5. THEDOLLS
Adollinthedoll-maker’shouse
Looksatthecradleandbawls:
‘Thatisaninsulttous.’
Buttheoldestofallthedolls,
Whohadseen,beingkeptforshow,
Generationsofhissort,
Out-screamsthewholeshelf:’Although
There’snotamancanreport
Evilofthisplace,
Themanandthewomanbring
Hither,toourdisgrace,
Anoisyandfilthything.’
Hearinghimgroanandstretch
Thedoll-maker’swifeisaware
Herhusbandhasheardthewretch,
Andcrouchedbythearmofhischair,
Shemurmursintohisear,
Headuponshoulderleant:
‘Mydear,mydear,Odear.
Itwasanaccident.’