ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: False Premise

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Gaye Taylor

Document Summary

When you have a canon, you have an idea of a dominant culture of some kind that has its assumptions based on what is valuable or not. Ideology: an explicit or tacit sharing of attitudes, values, assumptions or principles; a covert means of social control, made up of concepts and categories skewed in favour of prevailing power structures. This doesn"t have to be fully conscious/spelled out, but something that has been normalized so much that people believe it is truly a part of reality. Ideology involves reproducing your surroundings in a way that does not require you to think about anything. Strong level of sacrifice between the parent leaving their home and. Pressure comes from the desire to fulfill the parent"s dreams, and to make their sacrifices worth it. There is a power struggle and competition between the generations: the power struggle is about doing what the parent wants the child to do, and the child refusing.