ENG354Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Formaldehyde, Daguerreotype, Stesichorus
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Summer fire and winter fire based on real susannah moodie. Atwood creates symbolic difference between the two fires in order to portray. Pg 22-shapeless raging of the wilderness fire (summer fire) As opposed to the house, which has form and structure. Turning to the whole caste of mind she brought with her from england. Her approach to the winter fire is different. (cid:498)all the corners and straight lines flaming(cid:499) that they"re burning down. The logic she once had, her faith in reason, is burning to the ground. Describes the corners and straight lines as imprisoning her, doesn"t mind. Canadian man who tries to fit a straight line into a curved space. He might have had a happier time if he tried to fit himself into nature, not the. The structure of rational thought is seen as a prison and a cage that she has broken out of. Usually fire is linked to reason, but here fire is linked to wilderness.
