ENGL102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 99: Double Consciousness, Miscegenation, Scrivener
6 Dec 2016
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No natural connection between words used and concepts. Signs are not stable and change over time. Something back then may not mean the same thing it does now. Making a connection between the signifier and signified. Ideology is an imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence. Dominant ideology is established, maintained, enforced, and reproduced through: repressive state apparatuses (rsa) (army, police), and ideological state apparatuses (isa) (family, religious institutes, legal/political systems, unions, civil society, media, culture). Narrative provides imaginary resolutions to real social contradictions. Critique is exposing and examining multiple aspects of a text. What is the relationship between the form/structure and content/meaning? (how-form/what- meaning) Rationality vs nature ariel and caliban different forms of knowledge. Gender + patriarchy prospero duke + father, power with being a male. Appearance + character caliban looks evil, ferdinand is assumed to be good just by looks. The benevolent master is the worst master because it covers up the repression.
