English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: My Last Duchess, World Literature, Carnivalesque
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Tries to make us see them for what they are. We have to be able to see them as ideologies. It is sometimes too close, it has determined the way that we see the world, so we don"t see it as an ideology. Your ideas and beliefs are constructed from this. All of these came into being; at one time they weren"t true. And past ideologies have since finished (slavery) Maybe having them exposed as what they are is a painful thing. This novel offers that there are ideologies that need to be exposed as such. Ideologies are often traced to power; they benefit certain groups. Her task is to show that these are nonsense beliefs. They do not know it, but they are doing it . Too close to be seen as what they are. Works to expose a series of ideologies. You are in the process of becoming rather than being.