English 2033E Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Internalized Racism, Egotism
24 Dec 2015
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Mary didn"t have proper attention from her parents or any discipline: mother always at parties, father wanted a son, servants raised her with the instructions to keep her from crying, therefore she got her way in everything. Mary is a spoiled brat freudian or puritan. She is given access to nature and her own space, Colin is repressed, hides the portrait of his mother till the end. His father doesn"t want to look at him. Colin"s fear of possibly developing a hunchback is a secret fear he has. Colin is called a hypochondriac and hysterical, mary becomes his talk-therapist. Colin also has a secret fear of dying after overhearing servants. Novel ends up being seen through a romantic and. Most of mary"s acts of rage are internalized racism she has learned from the british coloniasm shown from her parents. Hints of sexual corruption from her mother. Mary"s mother is caught in a frivolous and materialistic.
