ENGL123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Hypoesthesia, Metonymy
6 Dec 2015
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Context: partition of india, end to british colonization. France and uk were in debt after wwii. Women"s body becomes sacred and purity of the nation. Lots of women killing themselves or men would kill them to protect honour: written in the 1980"s, never gazes at violence directly, climax is not addressed-> only subtle references, pg. Lost and bleak and numbness and chaos. Murky description relates to characters numbness and confusion. Contrast of the settings-> show that he is confused and lost and. Swell of people-> chaos (overwhelming sense: surging tide , scale of disaster. His mind is clouded with these horrific scenes: overwhelmed by external and internal images (cluster of violence and destruction) He seems unsure of what happened to him: where his daughter is and how they got split up. His wife"s body: relationship between the desire to remember a certain thing (daughter"s location) which is impeded by an unwanted vision (wife"s body)
