ENGL 3940 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Door Knocker, Making Money, Pawnbroker
3 Feb 2017
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Fog creates obscurity, fear (fear of the unknown) Vision (and how it relates to fear, obscurity, the unknown) Imagery of fog, what does this accomplish: darkness (scrooge likes the darkness, vision as spiritual, moral, physiological. Fog helps set the atmosphere of the ghost story. Dark homes, foggy streets vision is impaired, surroundings become unknown (familiar becomes unfamiliar) Familiar object door knocker takes on life (of marley"s ghost) Scrooge is sometimes confused for marley (already connected to this dead man) Marley connected to a doornail, doorknocker and oven tiles. Commodities, real objects, but also private property that has been invaded. Items that make up the structure of a house, similar to how marley makes up parts of the structure of scrooge"s life. Marley"s face in the house in relation to marley"s chain: both series of objects. Refusal to circulate money vs. refusing invitation to dinner.
