Read your "Logical Fallacies" handout, then pick your "favorite" fallacy and give a real-life example, explaining afterward why your example displays flawed logic.
Sample post:
Fallacy: #12, Ad populum
Example: If you really care about YHS, you'll go to my gymnastics meet on Wednesday!
Why it's flawed logic: While caring about YHS could be expressed by attending a gymnastics meet, the concept of school loyalty is being conflated here with attending a specific school event. A person could express his or her care about YHS in many other ways.
Friday, January 24, 2014
Forum #2: Elements of Tragedy
You are probably becoming aware that The Crucible is heading in the direction of tragedy. Choose one of the following characteristics of tragedy below, and answer the question associated with it:
A. The protagonist of a tragedy is a tragic hero. He is mostly good BUT has a fatal flaw, which leads to his downfall. What do you think John Proctor's fatal flaw is, and why do you believe this? How will it contribute to his downfall?
B. Tragedies are characterized by plot reversals, or actions that change the situation from secure to vulnerable (the Greeks called these peripateia). Name one of these reversals that has occured thus far in The Crucible.
C. In the end, the tragic hero experiences both suffering and insight (the Greeks called this the anagnorisis). How do you think John Proctor will suffer, and what insight will he gain?
A. The protagonist of a tragedy is a tragic hero. He is mostly good BUT has a fatal flaw, which leads to his downfall. What do you think John Proctor's fatal flaw is, and why do you believe this? How will it contribute to his downfall?
B. Tragedies are characterized by plot reversals, or actions that change the situation from secure to vulnerable (the Greeks called these peripateia). Name one of these reversals that has occured thus far in The Crucible.
C. In the end, the tragic hero experiences both suffering and insight (the Greeks called this the anagnorisis). How do you think John Proctor will suffer, and what insight will he gain?
Forum #3: Free Discussion
To this forum you may contribute your questions and comments from your Act III discussion notes.
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TKAM: Week 3: Question D
In chapter 15, Lee describes the jail as built in the gothic style. A dictionary defines gothic as "a style of architecture and literature that emphasizes the grotesque, mysterious, and desolate." In your opinion, how is To Kill a Mockingbird a gothic novel?
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