ENGL 1F97 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Terrence Mcnally, Miller Williams

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Marginal, vulnerable groups most affected: homosexuals, drug users, those living. Those already vulnerable become more vulnerable because of judgment, scorn, fear, ignorance. Those infected have to face the prospect of premature and painful death and reactions of family, friends, co-workers, community members. Read by some groups in darwinian terms as survival of the fittest. purging the world of the unwanted, the weak . Justifies moral, political, economic authority of the mainstream. Taking this kind of stance ignores how people come to be vulnerable in the first place. Miller williams, thinking about bill, dead of aids . Shows much of the problem lies with those not infected, how their fears are played out. Use of we provides anonymity, safety and solidarity (we, the uninfected) to speaker, as opposed to bill who is named and isolated, singled out. They are nicely dressed and each carries a white helium-filled balloon on a string.

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