ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Barometer Rising, Halifax Explosion, Halifax Harbour

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Natalie Taylor

Document Summary

Maclennan seems to be bridging an old and a new sensibility (romantic and realistic, rational and fanciful) in his novel, and angus murray is a character that functions most explicitly as that bridge. Showing us murray"s complicated response to war time situation. This question of the rational mixed with the irrational is mirrored in. Maclennan"s style, in the blending of the realistic with the romantic. It"s not only an updated romance; it"s also an update of another very old form of story: the epic (often related to the quest). Return home of the hero odysseus [ulysses in latin] from war to his wife. Penelope who has waited for him for 20 years. They invoke universal experiences and suggest larger frameworks of meaning to be found. Speaking of the epic, or larger than life events: Halifax explosion: 3rd year of wwi, munitions ship blew up in the harbor after being rammed by another vessel.