ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tough Love, The Things They Carried, Individuation
8 Feb 2016
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Lecture 3 the fall of the house of usher (january 26, 2016) Term essays: write about one or two stories, but must write about the things they. Books are italicized; short stories are in double quotations . Thesis: in the fall of the house of usher , roderick usher experiences cognitive dissonance between his outer masculinity and his inner femininity, which is personified through his relationship with his twin sister, madeline. His discomfort ultimately leads to the repression of his femininity through the oppression of his twin. Literary canon: the works that a given culture deems worthy of study: to get full marks for example, in academic english in high school, Plot: plot is what happens in a narrative: the plot in the fall of the house of usher follows the degeneration of the family blood line. *3 marks. Fiction: fiction is a made-up narrative: an example of fiction is anything we read this term.
