ENGL123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Tabula Rasa
6 Dec 2015
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Pg 30: but more than often : intoxicated sleep restless -> aftermath of drunkenness and addiction. He is obsessed with this interaction but he does not get relief and rather than release. His actions are not fully intelligible to himself-> oblivion. Important things: significant that the characters are unnamed. Reduced to roles (colonialism: he doesn"t take into account her feelings-> he is selfish. Joll is in a position to power but she is not. He expects his relation to be of pure desire but is surprise when it isn"t. Implied-> idea of coherent subject is part of an imperial society (realistic portrayal and juxtaposition against colonel joll: colonel is very assured in his motivations but the text provides a different portrayal. Relation between his aging body and hers: aging male sexuality but undermined, prostitute her beauty is easy to understand and can still. Speaking to find his motivations in her-> reflects his selfishness.
