Teacher Guide

Pale Fire Lesson Plan

Study Objectives

If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:

  1. 1

    Students will explore the role that criticism plays, for better or worse, in the outward expression of an artistic piece.

  2. 2

    Students will discuss notions of reality and delusion, and how our cognitive biases frame the world around us.

  3. 3

    Students will examine the theme of exile and how Nabokov explores it throughout his body of work.

  4. 4

    Students will discuss how much power the author truly has when releasing a work into the world.

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