ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stained Class, Rodenticide, Class Discrimination
12 Jun 2016
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In stories, writer can use images, phrases, words, in a way that can intrigue the reader and make them wonder why it is used repeatedly. Miss emily was being compared to a corpse in motionless water. Tarnished gets used twice in 2 sentences, describing gilt (fake, guilt?) and gold (money, wealth). Impure elements that cause the gold to be worn down and dulled. Tarnished also used to describe a reputation. She bought him a lot of things, he was not interested. The n word was used by judge stevens, 80 years old. Other ways society can be segregated (sexism, classism) Aprons used to degrade women when they went outside. Brutality, violence, racism, humiliation, convention, preserving hierarchy, honour (sartorius is the mayor in the town. She did not want to be chaperoned, like an outsider. Her father believed that no one in the town was good enough for her, so he drove away all the guys.
