From 6b3416a637aa18295a56de95e339510a92a6b9d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holden Rohrer Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 18:06:43 -0400 Subject: wrote an essay using biblatex --- markley/Makefile | 10 +++++ markley/essayone.bib | 15 +++++++ markley/essayone.tex | 110 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 135 insertions(+) create mode 100644 markley/Makefile create mode 100644 markley/essayone.bib create mode 100644 markley/essayone.tex diff --git a/markley/Makefile b/markley/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 0000000..00a26bd --- /dev/null +++ b/markley/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +.POSIX: + +essayone.pdf: essayone.tex essayone.bib + pdflatex essayone.tex + bibtex8 essayone + pdflatex essayone.tex + pdflatex essayone.tex + +clean: + rm -f essayone{-blx.bib,.{aux,bbl,bcf,blg,log,out,pdf,run.xml}} diff --git a/markley/essayone.bib b/markley/essayone.bib new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a56952a --- /dev/null +++ b/markley/essayone.bib @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +@book{Four, + Author = "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle", + Title = "The Sign of Four", + Month = 2, + Year = 1890, + URL = "https://sherlock-holm.es/stories/pdf/a4/1-sided/sign.pdf", +} +@book{Jekyll, + Author = "Robert Louis Stevenson", + Title = "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", + Year = 1886, + Month = 1, + Day = 5, + URL = "https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll.pdf", +} diff --git a/markley/essayone.tex b/markley/essayone.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aafe39b --- /dev/null +++ b/markley/essayone.tex @@ -0,0 +1,110 @@ +\documentclass[12pt]{article} +\usepackage[letterpaper,headheight=15pt]{geometry} +\geometry{top=1.0in, bottom=1.0in, left=1.0in, right=1.0in} +\usepackage{setspace} +\doublespacing +\usepackage{times} +\usepackage{fancyhdr} +\pagestyle{fancy} +\lhead{} +\chead{} +\rhead{Rohrer \thepage} +\lfoot{} +\cfoot{} +\rfoot{} +\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} +\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} +\setlength{\headsep}{0.5in}%top of page to bottom of header +\addtolength{\headsep}{-12pt}%max height of header +\usepackage{xcolor} +\usepackage{hyperref} +\usepackage[style=mla,backend=bibtex]{biblatex} +\defbibheading{bibliography}[\bibname]{\newpage\centerline{Works Cited}} +\hypersetup{ + colorlinks, + linkcolor={red!50!black}, + citecolor={blue!50!black}, + urlcolor={blue!80!black} +} +\addbibresource{essayone.bib} +\begin{document} +{\parindent0pt\obeylines +Holden Rohrer +Markley +English Composition II +6 Sep 2020 +} +\centerline{\large\bfseries Strangeness as Moral Hypocrisy} +In both texts, ``strange'' describes a contradiction: in {\itshape The +Strange Case of Dr.~Jekyll and Mr.~Hyde}, the contradiction is between +an upstanding member of society (Dr.~Jekyll) and his support of vice in +private; in {\itshape The Sign of Four}, the contradiction is between a +killer's cheerful and righteous demeanor and his crimes so horrible they +take away any sympathy mild-mannered Watson might have afforded him. +{\itshape The Strange Case} is literally extraordinary, since +metamorphosis from a drug is a supernatural occurrence, but most of the +strangeness derives from more ``ordinary'' facts, presented in the +detective novel genre. +Like Holmes in {\itshape The Sign of Four}, Mr.~Utterson goes on a path +of discovery which starts with a mounting number of inexplicable facts. +First amongst these is the story of the door. + +``The man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming +on the ground\dots it was like some damned Juggernaut\dots [on the +check was] a name at least very well known and often printed.'' +\autocite[6-7]{Jekyll} +Utterson is originally alarmed by the clear disconnect between Jekyll's +upstanding reputation and Hyde's immoral and unhealthy nature. +He believes their link to be because Hyde is coercing Jekyll, which is +why he repeatedly interviews Jekyll, but, as revealed later in the book, +Hyde is Jekyll, and Jekyll is being entirely honest when he shuts down +the line of questioning with ``My position is a very strange---a very +strange one.'' \autocite[24]{Jekyll} +The case would be less strange if it were chronologically revealed from +Dr.~Jekyll's perspective because, although supernatural in nature, none +of the apparent sinister contradictions would be contradictions. + +The buildup to Jonathan Small's strange story is comparable. +It has some innate strangeness and contradiction, but the progressive +development of evidence that Small is guilty of grand theft and felony +murder makes it all the more surprising that Small believes he is +justified and treats his own misdeeds that have resulted in his capture +as mere bad luck. +Small's story is so strange by another matter of contrast. +Small is a very energetic and upfront man (implying he is healthy and +moral), which contrasts with his sheer immorality---evidenced by his +killing of the merchant Achmet: ``the thought of his treasure turned me +hard and bitter. I cast my firelock between his legs as he raced past, +and he rolled twice over like a shot rabbit.'' \autocite[46]{Four} +The social aspect of the immorality of this man is obvious in Watson's +reaction to him: ``I had now conceived the utmost horror of the man, +\dots even more for the somewhat flippant and careless way in which he +narrated it\dots I felt that he might expect no sympathy from me.'' +\autocite[46]{Four} + +Both of these cases are really rather similar in that they contrast the +immoral with the moral to form a ``strange'' contradiction. +While the modern sense of morality has strayed from the explicit +condemnation of vice, the Victorian morality that these stories apply is +in no way implicit. %too bombastic? +Health is tied to morality, and morality is tied to restraint from vice. +Despite Holmes's cocaine's use to show his dedication, Watson +appealing to Holmes's sense of better nature (i.e. health/morality) +shows that vice, although casually accepted, is frowned upon. +Jekyll's attitude to vice shows this sort of casual distaste: +``My life [had been] nine-tenths a life of effort, virtue, and +control'' \autocite[78]{Jekyll}. +The conflation of health and morality is evidenced in Watson's pleading, +``it is a pathological and morbid process\dots why should you, for a +mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which +you have been endowed?'' \autocite[3]{Four} +Mr.~Hyde emphasizes the belief that immorality implies unhealthfulness. +``Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil,'' +which is why he is unhealthy and ``gives a strong feeling of +deformity'' \autocite[78]{Jekyll} \autocite[10]{Jekyll}. +The hypocritically unhealthy characters of these stories are abnormal, +given the implicit assumption that most people follow mores, and they +are therefore surprising, difficult to explain, and ``strange.'' + +\printbibliography +\end{document} -- cgit