Module 6 –  Socio-realism in Gustave Flaubert’s “A Simple Soul”

Welcome to Module 6! (2.5 – 3 hours)

Here’s what you need to do this week:

  1. If you haven’t done so yet, please take 5-10 min to fill in the midterm feedback form (anonymous).

  2. Read from the Anthology:
    – Vol. 5: “Gustave Flaubert” (p. 2517);
    – “A Simple Soul” (whole story, pp. 2517-2540). Note: the translated title can appear as “A Simple Heart” in different editions, hence the discrepancy with the lecture.
    *references to social class, death and hardship*

  3. Watch the lecture below. This week, I included below a separate methodology video (8 minutes) to start thinking about your outline and how to achieve an organized argument.

  4. Fill out the exit ticket for this lecture so I can count your participation.

  5. Do your Google Doc duty.

Here is the lecture, with (mostly-accurate) captions included:

*Please note: in the video lecture there is an inaccuracy on the slide “The Nineteenth Century in Europe”: Darwin is not actually the author of the words “survival of the fittest.” Herbert Spencer came up with this famous theory by twisting Darwin’s scientific theory of “favourable mutations more likely to survive.” Spencer used Darwin’s theory of species and applied it onto society, initiating a form of Social Darwinism to justify social selection and racism based on pseudoscience. This has been corrected on the PDF slides below.* (Thanks to Kun Zhang for pointing this out!)

Below are the PDF slides:

ENG2850-Module-6-A-Simple-HeartDownload

Here is the methodology video (captions included):

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