ALLUSION PROJECT I N F R A N K E N S T E I N
ALLUSION - A reference, explicit or implicit, to a previous literature or history that the author would expect the reader to know Purpose: Lets reader/viewer understand new information, characters, plot, setting, etc. by connecting it to something already known enriches a passage by inviting readers to make associations that can deepen or broaden meaning
READERS UNAWARE OF ALLUSIONS WILL MISS INTENDED MEANINGS John Steinbeck s Of Mice and Men book title alludes to Robert Burns poem To a Mouse Burns poem lines: The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry (Standard English Version) Reason for allusion: Steinbeck is trying to send the message, through his title, that things will not go as the characters planned. It foreshadows a notso-happy ending in which dreams are dashed.
ASSIGNMENT (MAJOR GRADE): On google slides (shared with the BUSH): 1 st slide title of work and author; names of group members 2 nd slide summary of the story your were assigned; you may only use pictures on your summary slide. You may use note cards when presenting. 3 rd slide explain the context and quote of the allusion in Frankenstein 4 th slide explain the significance of this allusion in Frankenstein 5 th slide are there any other allusions to your text? What are they? Explain the allusion. 6 th slide Works cited page (all sites used and Frankenstein)
RUBRIC: Skill Summary of your text: completely summarizes the main points of the story; uses pictures beneficial to the understanding of the story Context of the allusion: presents the quoted allusion to the class (with citation), explains the context of the allusion, Significance of allusion: elaborates on author s purpose of allusion specific to the context (how does this add to your understanding of Frankenstein?) Allusions to your text outside of Frankenstein: name of work (movie, book, song ) and author, present allusion, explain allusion Points Available 25 30 30 Ms. Bush s eternal gratitude and a sticker! Works Cited Page: lists all citations in correct MLA format 15
EXAMPLE WORKS CITED Works Cited Anderson, Sammae. Immunizations in America. New York: Health Central Publications, 1989. Print. Ph. Gabriel Steg, et al. "Influence of polyvascular disease on cardiovascular event rates. Insights from the REACH Registry." Vascular Medicine 15.4 (2010): 259-265. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Mar. 2011. http://web.ebscohost.com /ehost/ detail?hid=105&sid=9a0ab4e4-07ce-4e44-991970040ca97125%40sessionmgr113&vid=4&bdata=jnnpdgu 9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ %3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=53290645. S. Nakamura, et al. "Multicentric Castleman s disease representing effusion at initial clinical presentation: clinicopathological study of seven cases." Lupus 20.1 (2011): 44-50. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Mar. 2011. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detai l?hid=105&sid=9a0ab4e4-07ce-4e44-9919-70040ca97125%40sessionmgr113&vid=4&bdata= JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db =a9h&an=57543497. Basic Rules: Follow MLA: Label the slide Works Cited (do not italicize the words Works Cited or put them in quotation marks) Double space all citations, but do not skip spaces between entries; indent the second and subsequent lines of citations five spaces so that you create a hanging indention List in alpha-order by first word of the citation
ALLUSIONS IN FRANKENSTEIN: Creation of Adam and Eve Fall of Lucifer Prometheus Paradise Lost by John Milton Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Divine Comedy by Dante Mutability by Percy Bysshe Shelley Tintern s Abbey by William Wordsworth Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto Childe Harold s Pilgrimage by Lord Byron The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
EXAMPLE: THE MATRIX Follow the white rabbit... Down the rabbit hole...
ALICE S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND BY LEWIS CARROLL
ALICE S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND -LEWIS CARROLL
ALICE IN WONDERLAND SUMMARY ( FOR UNDERSTANDING ONLY - NOT A SLIDE IN THE PRESENTATION) Alice sits on a riverbank on a warm summer day, when she catches sight of a White Rabbit in a waistcoat running by her. The White Rabbit pulls out a pocket watch, exclaims that he is late, and pops down a rabbit hole. Alice chooses to follow the White Rabbit down the hole. She finds a small door that she opens using a key she discovers on a nearby table. But, Alice begins to cry when she realizes she cannot fit through the door. She finds a bottle marked DRINK ME and downs the contents. She shrinks down to the right size to enter the door but cannot enter since she has left the key on the tabletop above her head. Alice discovers a cake marked EAT ME which causes her to grow to an inordinately large height. Still unable to enter the garden, Alice begins to cry again, and her giant tears form a pool at her feet. It takes her a while to get the right size and move on. She wanders off into the forest, where she meets a Caterpillar sitting on a mushroom and smoking a hookah (i.e., a water pipe). The Caterpillar and Alice get into an argument, but before the Caterpillar crawls away in disgust, he tells Alice that different parts of the mushroom will make her grow or shrink. Alice tastes a part of the mushroom, and her neck stretches above the trees. The Cheshire Cat explains to Alice that everyone in Wonderland is mad, including Alice herself. The Cheshire Cat gives directions to the March Hare s house and fades away to nothing but a floating grin. Alice travels to the March Hare s house to find the March Hare, the Mad Hatter, and the Dormouse having tea together. After saving several gardeners from the temper of the Queen of Hearts, Alice joins the Queen in a strange game of croquet. The croquet ground is hilly, the mallets and balls are live flamingos and hedgehogs, and the Queen tears about, frantically calling for the other player s executions. The Queen becomes furious with Alice and orders her beheading, but Alice grows to a huge size and knocks over the Queen s army of playing cards. All of a sudden, Alice finds herself awake on her sister s lap, back at the riverbank. She tells her sister about her dream and goes inside for tea as her sister ponders Alice s adventures.
CONTEXT: The Matrix uses the phrase, follow the white rabbit and then presents a tattoo of a white rabbit. Neo has to make a decision as to whether to join the people with the white rabbit or not. This alludes to Lewis Carroll s, Alice s Adventures in Wonderland where Alice makes the choice to follow the white rabbit down the rabbit hole.
SIGNIFICANCE: The parallel between the two stories is with the main characters making the choice whether to follow the white rabbit or not. By understanding the allusion to Alice s Adventures in Wonderland, the audience is able to predict the journey Neo is beginning without the movie having to waste any time explaining it. First, the allusion allows the audience to understand that Neo is making the choice to enter a new world. Understanding the allusion, also, means knowing that the world Neo is entering has no rules and will be different to everything we know, hence foreshadowing that everything Neo experiences will be pushing the limits of what the audience will believe also.