qdpd n 2.pdf - Collegio San Giuseppe - Istituto De Merode

Freedom of Soul… QdPD 1 (2008)
Step 2 Human Justice, Divine Forgiveness
Objectives: learn about the theme of ‘Freedom’-
(Is a man free to do whatever he wants to?)
Learn about the concepts of ‘Justice and Punishment’
Learn whether ‘living according to the Aesthetic precepts corresponds to
living in a free way’
Documents – O.Wilde ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898
Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, South Africa, 1994
Study Skills – reading or listening from recorded passages,
- making notes or spidergrams
- finding out key words and topics to be added to the title
Task 1 – Read the text and state the features of the ballad that can be recognized
in these stanzas;
Say what you have learnt about the man who is going to be executed;
Say what you know about the poet as a prisoner
Compare the man and the narrator of the story
State the symbolic relevance of the colours mentioned in the ballad.
Task 2 – The words of another prisoner: “That fellow’s got to swing’ have a terrible
impact on the narrator.
Define his state of mind and how he manages to convey it to the reader.
By comparing Wilde’s ‘Ballad’ to ‘The Rime’ by S.T Coleridge, find out the
common theme of Punishment and Justice
For Step 2, including students’ tasks, 3 hours
DOCUMENT 3
O. Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898
from the very beginning of the Poem
In memoriam C.T.W
Sometime Trooper of the Royal Horse Guards
Bit H. M. prison, Reading, Berkshire, 7 July 1896
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