ENG 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ruby, Parataxis

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 222
• Professor: Andrew O' Malley

Document Summary

5 of 7 short answer questions (2 short paragraphs each: focus on terminology and key concepts, define terms + examples from course readings. Lottery mentality: success from luck (strength, beauty, wit) (windfall) (magic assistance) Great chain of being: made actual social mobility next to impossible. Material conditions: poverty, hunger, powerlessness, constant threat of death. Recodified folk tale: originally about cuckolding (young man cuckolds a rich and powerful man and steals all his stuff: ogre/giant: symbolic of cruel, high-class, affluent men. Jacobs adapts this for children: protagonist (jack) becomes a boy and not a man. Lottery mentality: two worlds: giant in the sky, jack on the ground. Only way to get rid of the gap between the two worlds = magic. Threes (visits/items: 1 = meaningless, 2=coincidence, 3=meant to be, 1 = bag of gold (temporary wealth), 2=hen that lays golden eggs (permanent wealth), 3=harp (status, social values not wealth)