ENGLISH 1C06 Lecture : History of English Literature-Mar.6 Mrs. Dalloway (continued)
13 Mar 2012
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March 6: clarissa"s flowers and books, hugh and the necklace browbeating the shopkeeper"s assistant. Miss kilman is in love with elizabeth gets lost in the army and navy. Stores when elizabeth leaves her, she is heartbroken, - shopping is the modern predicament. Figure of power, most dangerous: sir william bradshaw, the psychiatrist: critique of the system system is wrought and we cover it up by calling it. Too readily accept the mainstream message of what normal, what"s appropriate. Personification of big ideas figures that do things, visualization of these abstractions give concreteness and allows woolf to talk about these radicalized ideals: the villanization of bradshaw is a result of woolf"s experience with early psychiatry. Eugenics; the ideal of purifying the race, happening within british culture: her main point: the modern state is trying so hard to make us see things a certain way. Hegemonic ideology to create a complicit public.
