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Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Does the analysis of literature actually help people become more emotionally intelligent and empathetic?
David Foster Wallace explores how education leads to a better adult life due to the added benefits of having the ability to be adjusted, conscious, and sympathetic. He validates this by going into the intricate details of the essence of life, to know what to pay attention to and to know how to use experiences to your advantage by seeing the meaning in each and every one of them. He argues that everyone knows all the information they see around them already and that its "codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides,
epigrams, parables" and to acquire true "freedom" it is important to see the truth up front in your daily conscious mind. Wallace unravels the truth behind how our minds work, how we have default settings that stop us from seeing the things that are important. He talks about a really important form of freedom where you truly care about other people and sacrifice for them and this kind of awareness is what is very essential to keep us going. He also reminds us that we have constantly remind ourselves of the present and the experiences within life.
David Foster Wallace uses examples of people around us, examples which can be relatable to an adult. He takes specific examples such as getting frustrated because a man dangerously overtakes you with a Hummer and makes us realise that there might be factors that are causing the man in the Hummer to do that. Maybe he has a sick child and is rushing her to the hospital? Who knows. He argues that if we think about every experience through a different perspective, not our own we might be able to become more happy, more adjusted, conscious and sympathetic. He also uses the example where a mother shouts at a child at the paying counter and tells us how people having boring, routine oriented lives get irritated quickly and do not understand that maybe that very same mother might have had a bad day at the office or he husband might be in the hospital. So it is important to see everything from a different perspective an it is absolutely essential to push ourselves to do it.
What David Foster Wallace talks about has great significance and connection to Part 3 of the English Language and Literature course as one fo the main things literature allows students to do is see different lives and experiences and makes connection their own lives and their societies and culture. One of the key inquiry questions in this part of the course is 'How can literature develop empathy and emotional intelligence?' The Wikipedia definition for Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognise one's own and other people's emotions, to discriminate between different feelings and label them appropriately, and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behaviour.
Through critically analysing literature we can understand what it is to be a character within each story and we naturally empathise with them even though they might just be fictional. Alice Munro's stories gives a different perspective on life, a realist one. Through stories like 'Runaway', 'Passion', 'Boys and Girls', etc., we get to know what it was like to be a woman or just a normal poor or middle classed human back in her time and it is amazing that we can still relate to some of things she says. So, I believe that analysing literature is extremely important to understand people, to care for them and most importantly to make us better, more understanding human beings.
David Foster Wallace uses examples of people around us, examples which can be relatable to an adult. He takes specific examples such as getting frustrated because a man dangerously overtakes you with a Hummer and makes us realise that there might be factors that are causing the man in the Hummer to do that. Maybe he has a sick child and is rushing her to the hospital? Who knows. He argues that if we think about every experience through a different perspective, not our own we might be able to become more happy, more adjusted, conscious and sympathetic. He also uses the example where a mother shouts at a child at the paying counter and tells us how people having boring, routine oriented lives get irritated quickly and do not understand that maybe that very same mother might have had a bad day at the office or he husband might be in the hospital. So it is important to see everything from a different perspective an it is absolutely essential to push ourselves to do it.
What David Foster Wallace talks about has great significance and connection to Part 3 of the English Language and Literature course as one fo the main things literature allows students to do is see different lives and experiences and makes connection their own lives and their societies and culture. One of the key inquiry questions in this part of the course is 'How can literature develop empathy and emotional intelligence?' The Wikipedia definition for Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognise one's own and other people's emotions, to discriminate between different feelings and label them appropriately, and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behaviour.
Through critically analysing literature we can understand what it is to be a character within each story and we naturally empathise with them even though they might just be fictional. Alice Munro's stories gives a different perspective on life, a realist one. Through stories like 'Runaway', 'Passion', 'Boys and Girls', etc., we get to know what it was like to be a woman or just a normal poor or middle classed human back in her time and it is amazing that we can still relate to some of things she says. So, I believe that analysing literature is extremely important to understand people, to care for them and most importantly to make us better, more understanding human beings.
Friday, October 2, 2015
Royal Beatings- Excerpt IOC
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