I haven’t posted on here much because I was always self conscious and didn’t feel like I know what to say and if what I was saying was correct. Being in this class for the past three months really has helped me develop a wider range of thinking when it comes literature. This next paper I feel more confident about than our last one. I chose to talk about Zulus in relation to romanticism as described in the Bedford. The Bedford mentions that romanticism can come back to the theme of Gothic. Gothic is described as strange and bizarre in the definition of romanticism and doesn’t that describe the whole book of Zulus? Strange and bizarre? Gothic is also described as a gloomy mood and describes Gothic heroines as mysterious, which if you ask me Alice Achitophel is pretty mysterious. So, does that mean that Percival Everett is a Gothic author when he wrote his book? The definition of Gothic describes the whole setting, mood, characteristics of Zulus. Romanticism, even though Zulus isn’t a romance novel, it is still seen though by using Gothic and that ties it back. That’s what I want to focus my second essay on.
Interdisciplinarity and Charles Darwin
I feel as if the subject of Charles Darwin and his work has been the most controversial issue, especially in the classrooms, because people do not believe his theories to be probable. Also the subject of religion comes into the subject as well. Darwin had an idea that everything had to evolve over time and therefore everything is connected in a way. Darwin is considered a scientist and all scientists theories started out as a metaphor (pg 146).
Darwin was able to prove his theory of natural selection to be true and then came up the issue of Darwin avoiding talking about the humans and how they are related to other species and therefore came to the theory of ‘Social Darwinism.’ This also brought him to discover the theory of the ‘missing link’ or as we know ‘Big Foot.’ That is most likely unreal so maybe that’s why people are so controversial over his theories.
Darwin was a brilliant man and had a lot of logical theories in science but became a part of literary and cultural texts by influencing them by using his theories (pg 147). So why is his theories so criticized and controversial today if he made such a difference in not only science but literary subjects as well?