ENGLISH 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Thomas Mcgreevy, Samuel Beckett, Avant-Garde
17 Apr 2016
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Once someone takes acion against ideologies the game changes. Important to provoke correcive acion orwell"s acion was to write. Asks to quesion what we are told, the poliical choices of our leaders. Teaches us to be not unthinking livestock but criical human beings. Orwell professed the efect of an oppressive regime o. Smoke coming out of the chimney once again symbolic of smokestacks of burnt bodies during the holocaust. Irish avante garde writer, popular for his plays. Early literary career includes interacions with inluenial modernist igures james joyce and thomas mcgreevy. Becket joined the underground french resistance in wwii o o. Commitment to acion to bring down authoritarian totalitarian regimes. Winner of the 1969 nobel prize for literature. Window view: zero or gray o o. Symbols of apocalypic world where the world no longer makes sense. Mr. becket is preparing us for oblivion everything is desolated/messed up; not physically but moral/spiritual/ideologically.
