ENGL 2011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Scullery Maid, Downton Abbey, Highwayman
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Mysteries: who actually killed mr field, the document. The serious con ict is a psychological and moral con ict, not the physical ones. Gar eld believes that a person"s psychology is shaped by our environment coupled with our ability to be moral agents: modern writing (1960s) Perspectives go beyond the social to the moral and even religious. Even though smith doesn"t have a biological father we are invited to look at the father- son relationship by lord tom and mr mans eld. Categories related to his age and family - class: urban london is seen as a jungle. The setting (london) becomes a sort of character in its own right. Smith"s sisters make a legal living out of the su ering of the society. Lord tom: if we ranked him according to the actual political structure he is at the lowest but he is the highest of the lowest, this faction has its own system.