English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: My Last Duchess, Courtly Love, Superconductivity
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The demonstration of how ideology functions how entrenched it is in the way we think and live. How does one step out of an ideology and the limitations of them. To completely change/reverse your ideologies is nearly impossible. It"s close to impossible to think otherwise than what we do now. It is at least possible through art to temporarily see things in another way. Art is that space where one can transcend ideology; one can think and be otherwise, but only temporarily. The state of play is strictly felt temporarily. Had a poisonous thinking of a woman. This one flips it and the husband is the subject. It exposes the poverty of the idea well. Back to the art of courtly love. A guide to men on how women should be thought of and presented. The source of every evil in the world . The dehumanizing of the woman, she is rendered into an object.