İNGİLİZ/AMERİKAN EDEBİYATI I - Deneme Sınavı - 19

The story “The Legacy” is entirely told by the husband, Gilbert Clandon. Gilbert Clandon is somewhat a successful politician and his wife Angela has recently died accidentally.

In Virginia Woolf’s short story “The Legacy” the husband Gilbert Clandon is a widower.

When we look at the story from Gilbert’s point of view, the reader would see that he is some kind of a self-centered man who thinks of his own life only and after his wife’s death discovers something different.

The story is mainly told from Gilbert’s point of view and since he sat down and read the diaries in the house especially in Angela’s room, it is highly possible to say that the dramatic place of the story is Angela’s study.

Angela is the protagonist of the story.

Angela was greatly affected by B.M. because he does not choose people to talk to. He talks to anybody; he is against the class system.

The most remarkable allusion in the story is the lines that Angela writes in her diary, “Egypt. Egypt. Egypt.” Egypt may have two different allusions in the history. One is related to the old Testament and the other one may be the one of the very famous work of literature, Anthony and Cleopatra written by William Shakespeare.

One technique that signifies simulacrum is intertextuality. Abrams (1981) defines intertextuality as “a creative means used to: Signify the multiple ways in which any one literary text echoes, or is inescapably linked to other texts, whether by open or covert citations and allusions, or by the assimilation of the feature of an earlier text by a later text, or simply by participation in a common stock of literary codes and conventions” (p. 200). The correct answer is C.

Kugelmass will be projected into the book and will have an affair with the female character in the book, which again Kugelmass does not believe. However, he gives it a try and wants to be projected into the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert to have a relationship with Emma Bovary. The correct answer is D.

James Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1882. His father worked in many professions, which forced the Joyce family to move to a poorer estate. The family lived in the Northern Dublin soon after James Joyce’s birth. His mother was a pianist who devoted herself to the practices of the Catholic Church. Joyce started his education in a Jesuit school named Clongowes Wood College and then he continued his education at Belvedere College in Dublin. He started writing poetry and essays when he was at college. His first essay was on Henrik Ibsen’s play When We Dead Awaken which appeared in a review in 1900. James Joyce published his short story collection Dubliners in 1914. The characters and places in this collection look real and he criticized the Dubliners in many aspects. His well-known novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was published in 1916 and in 1918 he published a play called Exiles. He started writing his masterpiece The Ulysses in Zurich and the book was published in 1922

Kugelmass is projected into a Spanish Grammar book and is chased by an irregular Spanish verb “tener” which means to have. The correct answer is D.

He always wants to get into the book before page 120 where Emma meets Rudolpho as he believes Rudolpho to be a very handsome Casanova who is skilled at pleasing women. The relation of the couple maintains its harmony until Emma wants to go to New York with Kugelmass. The correct answer is C.

Daniel Defoe left scool at the age of 18. He was put in prison because he went bankrupt. Defoe
worked as journalist, a tradesman, a pamphleteer, a public official and an editor.  The reason for his death is not clear.

Slave trade was not uncommon.

The aim of the artist is to make a picture of life through observation rather than an exploration of individual feelings and perceptions.

Another point that he notifies during the early pages of his journal is the first time he prayed to God. Being very ill for the first time on the island, Robinson prayed to God but does not really remember how he has prayed.

Reflecting upon the misfortunes he endured and all his sufferings, he realizes that it is God who created all and ruled them. He repents and searches for a Bible in one of the chests he has brought from the ship and finds one. The first words that he reads from the Bible are “Call on me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me.”. Upon reading this Robinson prays this time willingly, and after this he sleeps for about two days. When Robinson finally wakes up he is revived both physically and spiritually. He begins to read the Bible regularly and realizes that he “is delivered” from his sickness because he turned to God.

The beginning of the journal is indeed a repetition of what Robinson has already reported before, but what makes the journal quite different is Robinson’s explanation of details about his spiritual revival on the island as well as his physical delivery.

On the anniversary of his arrival on the island, he spends the whole day for religious practice.

During his third year on the island Robinson is busy with his rice and corn, which he tries to preserve against several attacks by goats and fowls, but he finally makes his harvest and spends the next six months to produce tools that he would help him turn his corn into bread. he works on making pots for himself for cooking, and succeeds in making pots by baking the shaped mixture of clay and sand in the fire. After many efforts, Robinson is able to cook bread for himself in the oven he has built.