ENGL 1411 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lucid Dream, Age Of Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Too much pressure to break up monopoly. A social space where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power. Render emotional trigger for reader - juxtaposition. Ways in which daniel defoe is enabling the travel narrative. Emotional, no one is going to read it. Science: took a vivid dream to realize a simple concept he had overlooked in the past (religious connection) Physically sick emotional state of repentance. How he"s impacted by nature ( abused thinking about himself) Trying not to go insane, no control over his situation. Trying to use scientific method to justify his loss. Brief moment of wanting to raise goat as companion, slaughtered it instead. Worthless to him on the island, takes it anyway. What is the point of listing the materials. Greater bond between him and the tools vs him and the dog. Unable to make a bond with other living things.
