ENGL 153 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Albert Memmi
20 Feb 2017
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In charlotte bronte"s jane eyre, bertha - the mad woman in the attic - serves as a "model" for how madness was viewed in victorian england. Not telling reader how madness is significant, not argumentative. Bertha"s behaviours are that of a mad woman, lines up with victorian explanation for madness. Convenient that story lines up with every victorian explanation for madness. He didn"t tell jane a(cid:271)out (cid:449)ife in atti(cid:272) until ha(cid:448)ing to, pretending to marry blanche ingram, married bertha for money (arranged) (260-263) Jane has her own reasons for believing rochester: novel wants us to trust. Blinded by love and manipulated by rochester (382) Colonialism - establishment, exploitation, maintenance, acquisition, and expansion of a colony in one territory. It is a set of unequal relationships between the colonial power and the colony and often between the colonists and the indigenous population. Imperialism - enforcement of colonialism through militaristic force. Binary oppositions (one side is presumed superior to other side)
