ENG252Y1 Lecture 3: ENG252 10.05.17
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Pg 129-130 - ellen: half subdued by the melancholy change in life, now that frank has been unjustly convicted, her emotions are coming out as violently passionate as she appeals, sexual transgression. When she runs into the arms of wacousta after frank has been killed on the bridge, Another passage when she is lying next to wacousta at the camp. Tell us about ellen and the transformation of her character. Pg 164 - pg 459 two important passages. A lot of description in change of clothing, her body and her figure very much stay the same, Initially dressed as a boy, on the one hand you have her in an earlier passage with her breasts exposed, and here theres another transgressive act where its a gender crossing. Simply through what she"s wearing suggests a lot of whats happening to her, by the end, a kind of savagery.
