ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hugh Maclennan, Barometer Rising
1 Jun 2016
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5. sexism/strict gender roles strict moral codes class distinctions (losing power) racist transition from older ways to new. Women - property? sexual purity = pure bloodlines conventions, couresy protectiveness, hypocrisy, racism, violence. Colonal sautaurus is protecting emily"s honor (telling her that she doesn"t need to pay back the taxes, since she can"t afford it, poor now after dad died) There is a spectrum of genre in all stories: fantasy - romance - realism - history, this story falls in roman, realism, but particularily in history, similar in rose for emily and barometer rising.
