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Daisy Miller
Lesson Outline
We continued a close textual study of the character ,Daisy Miller, keeping in mind the narrator's ongoing perplexity over Daisy's apparent effrontery and willingness to defy social norms in a rigid class conscious society . We explored why Daisy's familiarity with her courier , an employee, makes her appear common to proper society as well as Daisy's other social faux pas. While the narrator seems at first disposed to excuse Daisy's behavior as a manifestation of innocence, Joshua did well noting the author's ambiguity in this regard when Daisy expresses disappointment that her agreeing to visit The Castle of Chilean at night with a man while unaccompanied does not cause more of a fuss or disruption. We discussed how this reaction perhaps suggests that Daisy is a social rebel refusing to be imprisoned by social norms. With this image in mind ,we were able to explore the significance of Byron's poem, the Castle of Chillon ,about a nameless narrator imprisoned for his beliefs.
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Session Hours
0.75
Hours Attended
0.75
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