Christopher's Input

"we don't have clear access to any but the most basic facts of history...our understanding of what such facts mean...is...strictly a matter of interpretation, not fact"- This is quite possibly one of the most relatable things I have heard in my senior spring. The fact that there are so many holes in history and that we are filling them in without having anything concrete is pretty true. ..."history is a series of events that have a linear, causal relationship: event A caused event B; event B caused event C; and so on" This is a pretty cool idea because if one thing happens then that ALWAYS directly causes something else to happen. Purdue Online "New Historicism is a literary theory based on the idea that literature should be studied and intrepreted within the context of both the history of the author and the history of the critic" This is interesting because it is talking about how when we are analyzing literature, we not only should use the book, but more historic facts that can be realted to the story. Cliff Notes