ENGL 324 Lecture Notes - Metastasis, Trench Coat, Voyeurism
3 Dec 2012
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495: the mafia"s got one big head and she doesn"t care how many little ones she loses. you can chop them all off and a year later, there"ll be twice as many. The mafia is guilty of violating the individual. A contest being staged between the radical, possessive individualism of hammer, who"s out on his own, trying to avenge something. He doesn"t arrest people, he just wants to kill criminals. He"s very cynical/sarcastic about that, in fact. The one heroic individual vs. mass organizations. The imagery that describes the mafia makes us think that the mafia is just a point where a bunch of anger can be observed. Violation of individuality, the mafia is an army, they aren"t individuals. It"s like a government, too, which means that he doesn"t think too highly of the feds. Lots of analogies between the federal government and the mafia: one leader, but it"s mostly in name. they"re like an army too.
