ENG324Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Melodrama
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Distinction between the good world and the bad world. Good world the maylie"s cottage, bad world fagin. Oliver is carried back and forth between the good world and the bad world . Fear that one world may contaminate the other. Bad world invades the good world; oliver makes up in the maylie"s cottage and sees. 2nd half of the book is about oliver gets his story. Novel goes into the past to retrieve oliver"s story. Dickens" was the originator of writing on the production model. Did everything he could to maximize his profits. There is a physical difference between rose and nancy (image on pg. Nancy represents the idea of the fallen women . Rose has a stain and has the potential to fall. Rose embodies women"s original nature and nancy has fallen from it. Dickens" was concerned about the role of fallen women. Not explicitly mentioned in the text that nancy is a prostitute, only insinuated throughout the text.
