ARTS1031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Curtsey, Benwick, Magical Objects In Harry Potter
16 Oct 2018
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Harville considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet, serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading, and sedentary pursuits (81) Had a pleasing and melancholy air, just as he ought to have, and drew back from conversation (82: austen seems to present this as somewhat undesirable; perhaps untrustworthy / unhealthy. The grandeur of the country, and the retirement of lyme in the winter, appeared exactly to captain benwick"s state of mind . The party from uppercross passing down by the now deserted and melancholy looking rooms . Romantic" characteristics; might evoke such feelings; melancholy thoughts: melancholy place. Melancholy / melancholia: sadness - but especially tender, sentimental, reflective, pensieve - somewhat literary, giving rise to many subjects of poetry, melancholy can be potentially pleasurable. Anne and autumn / pensiveness: pensive character, can be melancholy at times, she has lost something in the past; lost love and opportunity, captain.
