ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Young Goodman Brown, The Grand Illusion, Eurocentrism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Cory Sampson

Document Summary

Office hours: tuesdays from 2:00 - 4:30 pm. Plural (the horrors), the horrors were personified with thoughts, laughter, patience. Device intended to create an active threat to well-being of characters. The grand illusion of ball is safety, safe and well ordered wall. Police force creates a domain in which there is safety and order. No one actually experiences horror, it is just made as a threat. Horror is the experience of the loss/destruction of the familiar human structures that make sense of the world. Freud describes the uncanny as the unfamiliar. Terror is the fear that comes through the anticipation of the horror. Fear that comes through the anticipation of the horror. Creates cultural and symbolic systems that allow to make more sense of an experience that is ultimately senseless. Horror of this experience is the result of reason and rationality to lessen the unknown and alien nature of death.