ENGLISH 3EC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Libertine, Misogyny, Rigging
28 Sep 2017
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Helps us see how power functions and is expressed. Rigging the game (cid:498)women have no character at all(cid:499) He says she is not because society has decided women have no character. She is in a room and looking at a fancy chest after having sex with her lover. Inherently there is impossibility that she cannot have a character. She acts exactly how society wants her to-> and this makes her have no character because she follows them. )t looks like she"s great but she actually isn"t (er friend is crying and sad and she"s thinking about a dress and the fabric. Generosity-> someone who"s generous has internal motives for humanity (e says women can"t have virtue in public. He says stereotypical women all through the poem. Martha mentions chloe and says she is a woman with character. Pope talks to a male reader or martha. This poem becomes a repositioning of women into the private sphere from the public sphere.
