EN119 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hobbit, 8 Women, Jonathan Harker
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Fantasy is a profoundly opimisic genre, one which works hard, through it imaginaive renderings, to transmute the dark and evil deeds of men into a thing of light, wonder and hope. Dracula: stands for a cruel and priviliged past. Originally an adjecive derived from the word goth , the name of an ancient and savage. 1980s london according to the 1885 sensus 1 in 8 because of job opions were limited outside of marriage. Oscar wilde trials somewhat open about being homosexual opened up many trials and debates. Charles darwin theory of evoluion that challenges the church. Many thought this theory meant god was dead = moral panic widespread of child labor. Many died due to the work they were doing. Vivisecion cuing up a living animal to learn more about anatomy. Man of itle and privlidge: these men are geing away with murder, end of century.
