English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Slut-Shaming, Electra Complex, Pedophilia
1 Apr 2019
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Sales for 1984 spiked - two countries in constant conflict. Ending is better than mending - fiercely consumeristic. Uniformity - we are encouraged to leave in uniform. Exempt from traditional feminity - domesticity, monogamy, childbirth, conflict between personal/professional lives, violence/domestic abuse, prostitutes. Bernard talks about lenina like a piece of meat. Lenina - like a blow up doll, used only for recreational purposes. Zipper invented in 1917, nicknamed zipper in 1923 - traditionalists associated it with promiscuity. One alpha female - ms keat - head mistress of private school, still answers to men. Heteronormative society - people are driven towards heterosexuality. Cannot believe that pedophilia and sexualization of children had been repressed. 4 types of people against society - rebels. Genius - mustopha mond, smart enough that he can"t relate to society. Neurotic - what they want to do between probition of that desire. Criminal - the outsider, goes against the rules.
