ENG 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sophocles, Dover Beach, Piano Tuning
26 Mar 2018
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The speaker is confessing to homicidal desires and she wants the victim to suffer a great deal while it happens. As she conjures up this scene, the gap in us is created (between our ethical response and aesthetic response, i. e. how am i reacting to this poem) If you end up concluding that energetic evil is kind of intriguing you"ve hit a key element with browning. She takes a look at the potion and. You"ll need more poison because she"s not small. Wants to have actual suffering on the victim because they were with her husband. She removes her mask to see the poison that is being made. Offers to give the old man a kiss (prelude to something more intimate) She is married and is kissing the old man in a place where her husband doesn"t know where she is. Sense of let the world go to hell, i don"t care .
