ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Materiel, Sentience, Laestrygonians
26 Sep 2018
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Oppositions: conceptual opposition, expressed in various figures and events, events test "social contract" of strangers, that is, whether they prefer duties and obligations to others to raw freedom of self. Beast vs. human: a figural opposition, to express a characters sense of savagery or civilization, example: the men who are turned into pigs by circe. Insight (or perception: a figural opposition, to express the ability to recognize differences between savage and civilized, in oneself and others. Patterns of figural (metaphor, image, event, representations) or conceptual opposition (specific ideas, abstractions) often structure the main themes of a literary text. To analyse a work, look for them (for these oppositions are extremely common in the structuring of meaning in many literary texts). Structured exactly the way book nine is; two shorter tales and one longer tale. It stands as a mirror to book nine. Visit to the island of the god of winds.
