ENG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Memento Mori, Picaresque Novel, Everyman
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Mariposa different from but aspires to the urban. It sees things idealistically sees things as they are not. The you sometimes it is assumed to know mariposa inside and out sometimes it is assumed it knows nothing universal everyman kind of figure who moved away and longs to be there again in the past . Maintaining the darling illusion of the past. Page 185 it leaves the city every day . Idea of death -- you go three because you have left the rural life and you are morning the loss of it. Problem is that this enclosure is never left perfect it is always wrecked. Death always get into the pastoral enclosure. Mariposa has its own death and change built into it. Spanish word for butterfly really beautiful, but fragile thing. Sing songs or tell stories about the pastoral enclosure to preserve it (symbolicly preserve it)
