ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Krempe, Mental Disorder, Humphry Davy
14 Mar 2016
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Central conflict: domestic world: private, harmony, affection (a place in which opposites are reconciled), resolution of conflicts (oppositions are easily reconciled, feminine, professional world: public, ambition, ardour, passion, engagement in opposition, masculine. Plot structure: exposition: the domestic environment, complication and rising action: attraction to alchemy (cornelius agrippa, sight of lightning bolt, departure from geneva to ingolstadt. Alchemy: agrippa, paracelsus, mystical, supernatural, medieval, promised impossibilities and delivered nothing (75) Chemistry: krempe, waldman, rational, natural, modern, promised very little but have indeed performed miracles (75) Narrative challenge: social critic, shelley doesn"t care about the actual science - wants to see the human reaction to an unusual situation. The possible vs. the probable: the possible: what happens, representation defined within the laws of nature, the probable: what should or ought to happen, representation defined by credibility of human response, improbable possibility (not good, probable impossibility (good)
