ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: White Savior Narrative In Film, Thomas Hobbes, Protestant Work Ethic
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Recreates civilization: madness, progress from hunting/gathering farming (cid:498)savages(cid:499, gets antsy if away from cave (cid:498)home(cid:499) for too long yet before he wanted to get away from home. First thing does is make thing secure fences, hedges: special ladders. Independent walls himself in despite being completely alone: even worries at first sight of human being (footprint) Everyone is always nice to him no conflict b/w him and others. Colonial narrative be no unexplored island in caribbean: his xury, his friday. Symbol of british conquest all in colonial context. Colonial myth and fantasy (cid:498)savages(cid:499) did have contact w/gun, there would. Never thinks he"s being punished for enslaving others. There"s nobody else on this island (terre: natives didn"t cultivate it, land is no longer his it"s being shared. Horror of not being alone on the island. Devil then a more dangerous creature cannibal. Fears annihilation in hands of others paranoid. England supposedly better and kinder colonist than spanish people.
