ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Love Triangle, Barometer Rising, Halifax Harbour

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

Document Summary

Neil is on a mission a quest story: realism. More overt criticism of government and figures of authority. Contradictory movement between romantic and realistic side, and how we have both elements which tell us something but the conflict comes in trying to determine what each side is trying to tell us. Neil has a disillusioned view point (beginning when he is injured: he has no purpose, he has nothing to live for, he is suffering from shell shock (ptsd) Secular and religious aspects of civilization are interconnected: church and military/gov"t often work hand in hand to justify going to war, connection made between the sanctioning and results of war. We have a society being critiqued in terms of social power dynamics, changing social systems, sexual roles, dominance and power systems: colonel wain brings everything together. Big, burly, masculine, beastly, animal-like (primal, instinctive, amoral: uses the colonel as a representative of everything bad.