ENGB28 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Narration, Nuclear Family
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Fantastical circumstances: ex: mother perishes in the snow. Godfrey seeing nancy while having a life. Role of gossip, lies: people are not larger than life, they are ordinary, not just kings and peasants, has (cid:396)a(cid:374)ks, (cid:271)ut they"(cid:396)e (cid:272)lose(cid:396) togethe(cid:396) (cid:395)ui(cid:396)e"s so(cid:374)s do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)o(cid:396)k: nasty, petty, squabbling over future inheritance. Epi talks about how bad it smells: unappealing environment, grim, dark, claustrophobic. Terrifying prospect for people who are from the countryside: no illumination where he finds himself, resists fairy-tale ending. Silas accepts the fact that he cannot get his answers. Advances in medicine: molly dies frozen in the cold. She was under the influence of a drug. Extremely addictive substance: addiction was very poorly understood. Samuel coleridge: early collaborator of wordsworth, kept use of opium secret. Sometimes used it as inspiration for his writing. Inserts herself into the narrative: critiques godf(cid:396)ey"s la(cid:272)k of e(cid:373)pathy, tries to refrain from judgment.
