ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Distillation, Dollhouse, Exaggeration

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 1A03
• Professor: Jeffery Donaldson

Document Summary

Kezia is the youngest of the children. given a doll house by mrs. hay. Exaggeration of the feeling when the hook unlatches and the reader is brought into this world which mansfield introduces. Kezia decides to show the kelveys the doll house for a brief moment". Crucial moment when kezia reveals the house to the kelveys. Written when britain took over new zealand. Middle class didn"t exist as the way we understand them today. New language we associated with the haves and have nots. Mansfield has created this context this object that connects classes. How do individuals live within the context of their class and cope/ interact with each. Mansfield emphasis vision of who gets to see this doll house. For kezia, real illumination. but for others, false illumination. Idea: kezia is the lamp. the two children dolls are the other burnell children illumination.