EURO 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Homily, Hotel Manager, Veranda

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: European Studies
• Course: EURO 3300
• Professor: Roberta Cauchi- Santoro

Document Summary

The analogy hypnotist soiree to fascism: what is the common element, loss of freedom of the will. Loss or compulsion of volition : c. draws analogy to relationship leader/people. Part i the atmosphere of fascist italy: atmosphere at torre di venere unpleasant, unwholesome, like a disease, cause national ideal ; aggressive patriotism, nation on its dignity, national ideal oversensitive, humourless. Incidents which display it: grand hotel veranda; whooping couch, mixture of tyranny and subservience, patriotic children, unnatural, extent of indoctrination, naked child and citizen"s homily. Making an example of transgressors: cowardly bullies and posturers, hotel manager, fuggiero, citizen in city clothes, cipolla (mussolini) Natural prejudice begets its like: the narrator"s attitude to italy. Middle class mob : voices of women, hot sun, dull, unsophisticated. Part ii cipolla"s performance: relationship between cipolla-audience, mutual hostility, c. contempous, derogatory; audience ill-will, reluctance, yet admiring, doesn"t leave.