ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Utopia
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Lecture 16 anne of green gables (3) Anne was devoured by secret regret that she had not been born in camelot. Those days, she said, were so much more romantic than the present. To-day"s mistake is going to cure me . hundreds of years ago, but romance is not appreciated now. Sir launfaul is on a grail quest gives money to a leper; later shares bread to the leper recognizing the christ in him; beggar. Anne is growing up; focalised through marilla: (pg. 235) marilla felt a queer regret over anne"s inches she was conscious of a queer sorrowful sense of loss : (pg. 256) i just couldn"t help thinking of the little girl you used to be, anne. And i was wishing you could have stayed a little girls i just got lonesome thinking it all over. : childhood is being presented as completely separate from adulthood; one should mourn, feel loss, nostalgia for this childhood feeling.
