English 2072F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Unconscious Mind, Animal Magnetism, The Man In The High Castle
16 Dec 2016
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Literally de nes humanity: political urgency that brings characters together, where they act like the fellowship against enormous odds (clear connection w hp and lotr, connects huge historical forces. Vs acts of solidarity and individualism that bring about change of history: a book within a book within a book, captures the sense of wish ful llment and idealism that is found in previous works. Same con icts in lotr and hp, grendel (determinism, fatalism) In this case is particularly interested in what happens when the fabric of reality dissolves and calls into question everything characters understood about their world. Denaturalizes our world and how we understand it: basic premise: Germany: africa, asia, east coast of us. Japan: all of asia and west coast of us. Hollywood gives it a sense of unreality, text seems to bend and fall apart near the end. Monday, november 14, 2016: nazis presented as having profound fate in their own ideology.
