English 1027F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pathetic Fallacy, Upper Class

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1027F/G
• Professor: Christopher Keep

Document Summary

Arbitrary points of demarcation to give shape to unbroken continuum. Offer stability & certainty our lives lack: humanize time, make it endurable. Establish atmosphere: mood, general feeling of a literary work, especially as it relates to its physical setting, described through diction and syntax. The world outside is a reflection of the inner life of the character: e(cid:454): hakespeare"s ki(cid:374)g lear. As he goes mad, nature mirrors inner turmoil. Thesis: i(cid:374) edgar alla(cid:374) poe"s (cid:862)the fall of the house of usher,(cid:863) the outside (cid:449)orld does (cid:374)ot (cid:373)irror the inner life, the outside world determines the inner life. It is not properly outside, it is in us. Setting: the place & social circumstance in which a story takes place. Whether it deals with the upper, middle or lower class. Urban or pastoral: remote location, outside town/village. Story written in 1839, published in 1840. Autumn: when nature falls into decline, before winter, before death.