EN119 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jonathan Harker, Metaphysics, Everyman
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Fantasy is a profoundly opimisic genre, one which works hard through its imaginaive renderings, to transmute the dark and evil deeds of men into a thing of light, wonder and hope. He has a project in the novel. Count-dracula = cruel and savage past, stands in the way of human progress. Readers have no way to interpret the ending of the story. Originally an adjecive derived from the word goth", the name of an ancient and savage. Germanic tribe in literature the term gothic has been applied to icions characterized by a gloomy seing, violent or grotesque acion, images of decay, degeneraion and. Moif gloomy seing (not abstract or general to be a theme), images of decay (vivid and mental pictures. 1885 london senses 1 in 8 women are prositutes. Oscar wilde trials becomes the escape goats of moral panic for homosexuals.
