As I lay Dying Part 1

Essay due 4/16, rough draft due 4/9 (Attached: Essay Assignment)

WW1->1930s: Modernism

Cinema: The Fall of the House of Usher

• Dream imagery
• Artistic
• Psychological
• Emphasis on effects over plot

Writers: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, (Conrad), Woolf, (Chopin), F. M. Ford, Yeats, Auden, Joyce, Stein

• Psychological Struggle
• Psychoanalysis (Freud style)
• Questioning the world around
• critique of “reality” (response to ww1)
• Dialects, how to represent how people talk instead of what they’re saying (immigration)
• Idioms

The purple flower

• Questioning society (why do we keep working of working isn’t getting us anywhere) -> WW1
• Folktale/fable/allegory

Above and below the skin of civilization.  Things below mimic that which is above.  Some times people fall through.  Think of it is like conscious and subconscious of society.  Blow is dirty, bones.  Ontop is the hill (usses trying to get up to the purple flower).  Still primitive near the bottom.

As I Lay Dying

Cotten house between road and their house.