ENG324Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mary Douglas, Henry Mayhew
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Our mutual friend charles dickens (book 1 and book 2) Opening of the novel focuses on describing the setting rather than the characters. People and parts of people are thingified. Mr. twemlow is brought out at dinner parties like a table (he is likened to a table) Bella was given away in a will. The veneerings are presenting themselves to be something they are not, they are enhancing their appearance (pg. 6) Bought who they are, they are all surface. Not seeing how they really are, seeing how they are reflected off of the class. Everything that the veneerings have is new , everything they have is phony. Frist and second chapter contradict each other. Twemlow is not sure if he is the veneerings bestfriend or not. Time period where people were in love with money dicken"s makes a critique on this. People were investing their money in shares to earn more money sufficient answer to all shares (pg. 114)
