Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Seventh Posting
Thomas Carlyle was known for his imaginative, eccentric works of history and social criticism. Carlyle was a very religious person he went to college and studied ministry. He was a very spiritual person. This along with his writing could have been what made him seem to be one of the sane authors unlike the others that we have read about. I thought it was interesting how Carlyle wrote "The French Revolution," but lent it to a friend whose house maid accidentally burned it. He had to rewrite it and that was torture for him. He felt that strong leaders were the only hope for social reform. He was probably right about that. I enjoyed the entry from "Gospel of Mammonism" about the Irish Widow. I thought this really helped with the visuals of how things were at this time. I think this is a very touching story and it is pretty sad.
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Krista,
Some good introductory remarks and observations about Carlyle. and at the end of this posting you begin to focus on a great passage for discussion. I would have liked to have seen you add several paragraphs of discussion of this passage, though, to the one of introduction here. Quote excerpts from the Irish widow anecdote, and discuss why Carlyle might have included it, and why he told it the way he did, and what it means to him and to you. That is more along the lines of what I hope to see in these blogs.
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