ENGL 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Claustrophobia
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Eve"s issues with inferiority as a female causes her to eat the apple. Recoils : imagery of a recoiling gun/canon alludes to the fact that as satan hurts god he hurts himself. He is rebelling against the base of his being, the ground of his identity. Sense of claustrophobia (line 19): the circular language and inescapability of his condition. Hell is an existential condition, not just a physical place (like faustus) Line 32 of dr faustus: seems reminiscent and wants god but feels the implausibility that he will be reaccepted. Line 42: satan grasps the truth about his rebellion, and his status as created. Gives a sense of his choice to rebel as deliberate; he realized that what he"s doing is wrong but did so anyways. Shows his weakness in the inability to act better. Line 73-9: he tries to physically leave but mentally can"t escape hell; he can only return to god if he submits.
