ENGL 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Petrarchan Sonnet, Sexual Objectification, Belphoebe
13 Jun 2016
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Decision to make chaste has national consequence. Individual chastity has the consequence because we rely on sex for the continuation of the human race. Also women who suggest variations of chastity who help her realize what she wants. Bridemart paralleled with the other girl - at the beginning seems like the. Petrarchan ideal, but not true because she herself is in love. She doesn"t want to be a fantasy woman, wants to be like bridemart. Fake floremel witch makes who turns out more like a fantasy woman. Presence of false floremel complicates things in book 3. Construction of fake floremel allows him to draw power of imagination. There is a way in which love is inherently founded in lies and illusion. False floremel passed around as sex object among the knights. In book 3, though, floremel is made a prisoner by the witch.
