Assignments – Week #10
- By now you should have completed your reading of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Please respond to one of the questions I have posted in in “Hedda Gabler – Part II.” Your responses are due by Sunday, April 11th.
- Our reading for this week is Leo Tolstoy’s novella, The Death of Ivan Ilyich (vol. E of your anthology). Please complete the novella before our call on Wednesday. I will expect you to demonstrate that you have done the reading.
- Write a blog post of 300-400 words, due by Friday, April 16th. For this week’s writing assignment, I’d like you to reflect on what it’s like to read this work at this particular moment in time. As you know, Tolstoy’s novella describes the experience of a man whose rather conventional life, focused primarily on work, socializing, and the acquisition of wealth, is suddenly disrupted by illness. In your blog post, please consider what it’s like to read and digest this work in the middle of our own unexpected and unrelenting period of disruption and unsettledness. What did you take away from Ivan Iyich’s experience of illness and isolation? To what extent are you able to sympathize with Ivan’s suffering? What lessons does Tolstoy’s work hold for us?
- I will be holding my regular office hours on Monday. You can sign up HERE.
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