Thank you. That's very kind of you. Station Eleven is a text with so much to analyse - there is so much detail that I know I have to gloss over but hopefully it is still useful to assist with your study of the text.
Lovely, do you have any resources you can recommend that provide great questions to help test me on formulating essays regarding Station Eleven? Thanks!
Sorry - the highlighter is simply what I happened to have handy. :( One day I aspire to be so organised in my thoughts that themes have different highlighting.
much has been made of the artificial snow in different analysis I have seen. But. . . even if the fake snow is representing artifice, i don't feel the author makes a strong case for what artifice represents. i mean the artificial "family" created by Symphony doesn't seem bad. The artificial world created by Miranda's beautiful comic book doesn't seem bad. But if fake is supposed to equal "good" symbolically, that's not exactly clear either, because the fake family created by the Prophet with his multiple wives is horrifying. The false sense of security Elizabeth has at the airport is also bad. . . so if we're going to say fake things are both good and bad, we're also kind of saying it has no significance. It's like the author had enough writing classes to know how to lay down motif, but not enough writing classes to get underneath motif and assign meaning to her symbols
Love your thoughts! I remember reading the first time thinking 'what on earth is this plastic snow meant to represent' lol! Now after multiple reads, I wonder whether the artifice of the snow is intended to reflect the false sense of satisfaction of the world of celebrity? The idea doesn't really come clearly till the end with Arthur's own realisation of how he's focused on things (celebrity/fame/status) that don't bring satisfaction at the expense of his relationships, particularly with Tyler but also his other ex-wives also... So as he dies surrounded by the plastic snow it represents both his regrets and the force of the fake world that consumed him??? Perhaps?
@@mrswilliams5145 hmmm I see what you're saying except it doesn't match what the author has told us, which is Arthur died doing what he loved best. So he was entirely happy to die amid plastic snow although he wasn't too thrilled with having become a plastic Hollywood persona. . . I dunno, I mean I sat and read this book in 2 days it was so engrossing, but none of the characters has any real inner conflict. All the conflict is external so we can't be too sure what any of the symbols actually signify even when we use Lear as a key. It's like Star Trek fans, lol, we're working harder than the actual writer, to make things fit
@@kumaridesilva3992 Bahaha - 'we're working harder than the actual writer to make things fit' :-) Love it! Well, I always say that as long as you can justify your analysis and it is consistent with the author's overall message and purpose then you can interpret as you like. Good luck!
Really solid analysis! I love how you dissected the various forms of symbolism in ordinary, mundane objects.
Thank you. That's very kind of you. Station Eleven is a text with so much to analyse - there is so much detail that I know I have to gloss over but hopefully it is still useful to assist with your study of the text.
Wow! what a cool teacher! Would have to be lucky to be taught by the one and only in high school! Best English department in the Country :)
Bahaha! :-) Thanks Aaradhana.
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English exam in 1 day… this feels productive
Lovely, do you have any resources you can recommend that provide great questions to help test me on formulating essays regarding Station Eleven? Thanks!
for the highlighter colours (green & yellow) to they correspond to a theme or is it just for aesthetic purposes
Sorry - the highlighter is simply what I happened to have handy. :( One day I aspire to be so organised in my thoughts that themes have different highlighting.
Can you pls share the pdf?
Hi Asif... For copyright reasons I don't think I can share the pdfs... I'm sorry. I hope the video was useful in any case?
much has been made of the artificial snow in different analysis I have seen. But. . . even if the fake snow is representing artifice, i don't feel the author makes a strong case for what artifice represents. i mean the artificial "family" created by Symphony doesn't seem bad. The artificial world created by Miranda's beautiful comic book doesn't seem bad. But if fake is supposed to equal "good" symbolically, that's not exactly clear either, because the fake family created by the Prophet with his multiple wives is horrifying. The false sense of security Elizabeth has at the airport is also bad. . . so if we're going to say fake things are both good and bad, we're also kind of saying it has no significance. It's like the author had enough writing classes to know how to lay down motif, but not enough writing classes to get underneath motif and assign meaning to her symbols
Love your thoughts! I remember reading the first time thinking 'what on earth is this plastic snow meant to represent' lol! Now after multiple reads, I wonder whether the artifice of the snow is intended to reflect the false sense of satisfaction of the world of celebrity? The idea doesn't really come clearly till the end with Arthur's own realisation of how he's focused on things
(celebrity/fame/status) that don't bring satisfaction at the expense of his relationships, particularly with Tyler but also his other ex-wives also... So as he dies surrounded by the plastic snow it represents both his regrets and the force of the fake world that consumed him??? Perhaps?
@@mrswilliams5145 hmmm I see what you're saying except it doesn't match what the author has told us, which is Arthur died doing what he loved best. So he was entirely happy to die amid plastic snow although he wasn't too thrilled with having become a plastic Hollywood persona. . . I dunno, I mean I sat and read this book in 2 days it was so engrossing, but none of the characters has any real inner conflict. All the conflict is external so we can't be too sure what any of the symbols actually signify even when we use Lear as a key. It's like Star Trek fans, lol, we're working harder than the actual writer, to make things fit
@@kumaridesilva3992 Bahaha - 'we're working harder than the actual writer to make things fit' :-) Love it! Well, I always say that as long as you can justify your analysis and it is consistent with the author's overall message and purpose then you can interpret as you like. Good luck!
Can someone give me Shakespeare quotes in starting eleven with their page numbers
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