Apply Structuralist principles to Gaskell’s “The Old Nurse’s Story.” Choose one of the 3 prompts below.
Write 2-3 paragraphs. Quote the texts (both Gaskell’s story and Parker’s chapter) each once/
Parker discusses “constructs” which are completely made up ways of knowing things that we nonetheless accept as true or natural. One example of such a construct would be time. There is no inherent “truth” in there being 60 minutes in an hour or 7 days in a week. These are human conventions that have evolved culturally over centuries and are now accepted as “the way things are.” Identify another such construct in Gaskell’s story.
Parker discusses the idea of the binary opposition, which is a way of knowing what something is, based on what it is not. Where do you see such binaries in this story? Is the child “bad” because she was born to an unmarried mother? Is the musician “bad” because he is Italian? Which of the sisters is “good?”
Characteristics of certain genres are another aspect of Structuralist analysis. What types of genres do you see at work in this story? Is there romance, mythology, gothic, mystery?
LINK TO GASKELL’S “THE OLD NURSE’S STORY” : https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605581h.html
PLEASE USE EXAMPLES AND QUOTES FROM BOTH GASKELL AND PARKER. THANK YOU!!!!
Apply Structuralist principles to Gaskell’s “The Old Nurse’s Story.” Choose one
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