Team B reading questions. Responses of 250-300 words are due by 9PM on Monday 10/20 as an original post. Don’t forget a creative title for your post.
1. The conclusion of LAS is what Ruth Graham might call “uniformly satisfying.” All the loose ends are tied up; the single characters get married; the evil one dies. In this way the ending feels very traditional and “safe.” How do these “safe” plot elements affect your understanding of the “dangerous” plot elements from the rest of the book (e.g. the bigamy, attempted murder)? How do these very different kinds of events coexist in the same novel? Smoothly? Uncomfortably?
2. At what point did you lose your sympathy for Lady Audley? Pinpoint the exact paragraph where this occurred, and explain how your understanding of her character changed at this moment.
3. Is Lady Audley the protagonist of this novel, or is Robert Audley? Or, alternately, do you think they share the honor? What does it mean to be a protagonist, in your own words? How does a novel establish who is and who is not a protagonist?