ELLA 3 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AND TEXT ADAPTATION
SECTION B CUPCAKES - NOTES ON SELF RESPECT
SOME NOTES
Phi Beta Kappa The Delta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was founded at the University of Pennsylvania in 1892. The Electoral Board meets every spring to elect new students who have distinguished themselves through undergraduate research and by breadth of study in the liberal arts. Questions should be addressed to Dr. Janet Tighe, Secretary of the Delta Chapter.
Raskolnikov is the fictional protagonist of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The name Raskolnikov derives from the Russian raskolnik meaning "schismatic" (traditionally referring to a member of the Old Believer movement). The name "Rodion" comes from Greek, which means a dweller of Rhodes.
Jordan Baker is a character fromk the novel The Great Gatsby
Rhet Butler and Scarlet O’Hara are the two main characters in Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchel made into a film in 1939 played by Clarke Gable and Vivien Leigh – who also played Blanche in Streetcar
Cathy in Wuthering Heights the main female role in the novel by Emily Bronte. The part was played by Vivien Leigh in the 1939 production
Waterloo refers to the Battle of Waterloo, fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, comprising an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. It was the culminating battle of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's last. The defeat at Waterloo ended his rule as Emperor of the French, marking the end of his Hundred Days return from exile.
- Failure told me life was not always going to be successful
- Being successful meant power, being polite, well groomed
- Failure forces us to see ourselvfes without any illusions – as we truly are
- Living our lives like this is very difficult, uncomfortable, disturbing
- But we learn to accept ourselves eventually
- Self respect is about feeling peace, acceptance about who we are
- Even the most unlikely people have it.
- Ref to Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby
- People with self respect are at ease in their failures
- They can evaluate and measure the world clearly
- They hve an honesty about themselves
- They are tough minded
- Accept responsibility for their own lives
- The older generation learned self-respect when they were children
- It was presented to them as self-discipline – the ability to do things they did not want to do despite fear or danger
- People with self-respect are prepared to take risks and to accept the consequences
- They are prepared to take action and commit themselves
- Self-respect requires an act of the will it is something to acquire grows with practice.
- People without self-respect – despise those that value or like them
- It makes people want to please others above themselves but this leads to failure
- Leads to alienation of self
