English 1022E Lecture Notes - Topos, Galoshes, Overcoat
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Three graces, judgement of paris: venus (love) Pattern employed by different cultures for different purposes. Mrs. morxans (unmarried, biological lack of fertility metaphor for ireland) Aunts may have once had vitality but lost it. Puckers and creases, shrivelled, nut making aunts neither male nor female they have lost their female identity. Gabriel makes allusion to three graces where in greek mythology the man has to choose between the three, venus was chosen. Aunts with this metaphor but becomes ironical because they are nothing like the three graces. Freddy: he"s a moron when first introduced he is not in control of himself. Freddy is part of the dead blunt nose, low brow, heavy lidded eyes and he has a girlish laugh (lack of clear definition between male and female again). Like robot, machine (page 2513) going to take ireland nowhere. Extra e in browne connotes that he is pretentious.