ENGL 101W Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Incest
11 Apr 2016
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Bloodstains on madeline"s dress and peg"s coat. Blood: life, iron, death, pain, revenge, crime, family, etc. Munro: blood spreads, stains, impacts, peg"s capacity for violence: marriage knots aren"t going to slip apart painlessly, with the pull of distance. There"s got to be some wrenching and slashing. Moment of revelation is described as an event in the external world; something dramatic. Revelation is partial; we don"t really know why the house collapsed. Force beyond characters seems to control their actions. Parallel between house, usher, and text: revelation: fits (1985) We literally end on a threshold; ends are always a kind of threshold pointing to the future that we can never go beyond. Boundaries between familiar and monstrous are thin and permeable. Mystery: the self: the unconscious, the irrational, our opacity and strangeness. We are also split: the haunted palace , just occasionally, talking to people, he feels something else, an obstruction. ( fits .
