ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kate Chopin, Pathetic Fallacy, Fiction
30 Mar 2016
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Was not overly concerned with plot, was more interested in the psychology of the protagonist. Believed in love a as combination of animal magnetism & the divine. Realism: represent ting life as it is. Verisimilitude:: realistic fiction that is written to give the effects that it represents life as it seems to the common reader. Belongs to a more specific school of thought & believed that human"s did not have a soul, but were high order animals that are mainly driven by heredity and the environment. Wasn"t published until after her death (~65 years after it was written) First and last section are on the periphery, focusing on bibi and bobint & clarisse, rather than calixta. Bobint gives the impression that he is not particularly clever, but he cares about his wife and son. His work likely keeps him away from the home, or else is distracting/all- consuming (doesn"t know that sylvie was at the house yesterday)
