ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Simile, Bildungsroman, Verisimilitude
14 Mar 2016
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Central characters: young goodman brown - appears to be a goodman but leaves faith behind, leaves faith and certainty behind them, faith, when on journeys never sure what is real or not, always doubt about what"s there. Allegory and young goodman brown: remains tormented - failed quest structures - emerge worse from that journey - failure to gain self knowledge. Traveller as doppleganger : double goer, mysterious double who haunts the protagonist, keep on the path , what the traveller is saying is more like what the narrator is thinking - eternal doubts and evil in young. Frankenstein: creature or creator: victor"s inner hell could be the words of the creature, dobblegangers. Representing the supernatural: central struggle of narrative is to be believable. Coleridge: novel as absolutely unbelievable (by some critics, break laws of nature to explore how people react to supernatural events. Narrative is conveyed entirely by an exchange of letters .
