ENGL 3251H Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Snob, French Revolution, Antonio Vivaldi
10 Dec 2015
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Volume i where everything is getting set up. Talks about people"s expectations, hopes and fears all the way through. Manipulating our emotions and the character"s emotions. When strange events happens it arouses the character"s curiosity, fear and anxiety. Desire to pierce the veil of mystery. The uncovering of the veil/mystery to see some kind of truth. Gothic novel doing everything to jerk us around. Close parallels to the experience of the reader and the characters. Our lady of tears name of the church; order of the black penitents. Uses the word curious right off the bat to describe the travellers not towards the building but to the stranger. He glides to the door feet not touching the ground; ghost reference. The church offering sanctuary for assassins english question this; being lawless. Confessional a place of full disclosure; putting you in the priests power or eliminating sins; couldn"t the priest blackmail people; voluntary confession and possible tyranny.
