English 3650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sigurd, Volume Rendering, Devil In Christianity
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There are many commonalities between this, and the road, which is the next text. The room itself is thematically important to the book. It"s dimensions are paid attention to, but this doesn"t mean that its architecture is fully at stake; it is about imprisonment. It is later in the book where there seems to be an undue amount of attention paid to the different buildings that the protagonists find themselves in. While our heroes are imprisoned, other peopled can"t look at them; there is some degree of privacy. In the ward, there is people looking at them the entire time. This plays into the ideal of the degree of lifestyle-stolkholm syndrome. It is part of the horrific things that has been done to them; it fails to equip them with the ability to be outside the room. You can"t see what people see in their minds eye.
