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Show 109 SEVENTH AIM: VALUES understanding clearly its context, atmosphere, and value. It is bad morals to place "Who steals my purse steals trash" as a precept to Significant reading demands be followed. that the student read this good theory with Iago's purpose of misleading and deceiving "the devil may cite scripture for his purpose." To do anything other than this is to malign Shakespeare. Climax of Just as it was necessary to contrast Paragraphs. ideas and to accumulate ideas into climaxes, so is it important to be able to in differentiation and in increased cul place paragraphs speech from Julius Cesar beginning splendid example of a series of foul rejoice-" idea climaxes of which, piled up, make a climax of paragraph, simple ideas are contrasted. As was done in the well as as Paragraphs contrast of idea, the contrast of paragraph should be kept in mind, If reading of joy, which you but should never be anticipated. know will be followed by sorrow or even tragedy, be sure to keep the joy unmingled with any touch of the darkness which is to The mination. Marullus is "Wherefore a In this way the contrast will be made much greater. follow. Ibsen em opens his "Doll's House" with Christmas festivity in order to he which false of a the brings out home-happiness, phasize tragedy in contrast against such joy. becomes by such method. Note how much blacker the tragedy The peace and pure happiness of Spar tacus sets off the tragedy of his later experiences. Beware of Finality. The paragraph, just as the sentence, must considered, as absolutely complete. Not complete story, book, or play is really ended. The fairy story is the only literature which jumps off the end of every thing with that deadly final, rounded out inflection on "They mar not be read, even and therefore not the ried and lived happily ever afterward." Be careful when you hear this downward inflection anywhere else! The movie has this same finality in untrue, happy endings. Our future generation should be educated to see life in true reality, so that they will not insist upon a false, sugar-coated end to everything. on after the story ends; In the best literature, life goes the author leaves us to piece it ourselves as Every actor I have heard-save one (of my own direct ing), when reading the last line of the "Doll's House" has said, "Miracle of miracles," as if it were a hopeless final, and the audi- we live. |
