ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Immanuel Kant, Optical Illusion, Natural Environment
24 Jan 2018
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River is intense and too powerful to be controlled. Horror exists outside of human structures and categories. River is described of having a will of its own (128) Natural environment seems to be against them. River rst seems like a playful poetic device. The river changes aspects once they land on the island (135) Sublime: terror at our seeming helplessness before the overwhelming power of nature, provided that the terror is rendered pleasurable by the safe situation of the observer - immanuel kant. Monster is an object of horror because it transgresses human categories or forms. Describes the apparitions as huge gures and not human at all. Fluidity of gures transgresses what we would think of as the individual form. When he was confronted with the horror of the apparitions, he seems to be returning to the sublime. Fear sets in once he realizes what"s going on.
