MHC-360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pathetic Fallacy, Pathos, Lightning
19 Oct 2018
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Character moving very slowly towards cemetery and doom. Weather imitated the emotional state (heightens it) Wants to see relationship btw modern world and past. Think is dead, comes back alive in present power. Powerful (supernatural) for(cid:272)es outside yourself , (cid:272)o(cid:373)pels u to do thi(cid:374)gs u do(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to do women. Rape can make explicit, what is held back obscene patriarchal power. No restraints on desires triumph over unbeatable forces. Something new but also take us back. Suddenly recognize who seems unfamiliar and strange, but has identity that u already know. Sublime is(cid:374)(cid:859)t har(cid:373)o(cid:374)ious, (cid:271)ala(cid:374)(cid:272)es, a(cid:374)d (cid:271)eautiful: terrifying, awesome, overwhelming crisis supernatural and the real importance and effect of irish studies and gothic studies in carmilla. Carmilla arrives from out of this mist, a portentous symbol of miasma from which the disease of vampirism emerges. While class difference undoubtedly contributes to laura"s opinion, her perceived separation from the infected locals is also based on ethnicity.
