ENG 503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Plot Device
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The first 13 chapter give you and adventure feel, then gothic element. Chapter 14 science comes to play: they seem very individualistic but can be sociable. Force: coercion, physical, mental, as re-enforcement, law. Women begin to forgo drinking because they start to feel shame. But montgomery feels a lot of shame as well: left a woman with a kid, scientific discovery, why burn the boats, vindictiveness. If he goes back to london he"d still be exiled: attached to pendrick & beast people. Doesn"t want him to leave: gives him a reason/way to kill himself, plot device. To move things forward: political move gone. Everything goes to hell: instead of taking re. The head of the mechanism of the island now: pg. Curiosity hurts the one who is curios: pg. A father is killed and his kid is orphaned and gypsies take him and graft is face as freakish clowns and jesters. They grow up and fall in love.