EN119 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Opium Den, Moral Panic, Serial Killer
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Week 5 lecture 1 february 5th, 2013. How familiar and fantastic work together to create secondary world: place (geography and legend, language (runes, elven, kenning) Dracula stands in the way of progress and future. Mass movements of people of the country to the city. Homosexuality was an escape for moral panic. One of britain"s play writes, sent for 10 years. Absence of laws regulating drug use and trafficking. Opium parlors as common as tattoo shops. Lodinum, watered down used for babies teething gums. Trend in sciences cutting up live animals and occasionally live humans. Prevailing scientific thought that you could learn most about human anatomy when dissecting something while being alive. Thought he could get away with all the murders. Fin de si cle moral panic sex, drugs, alcohol, money, the church. Archetype: monster; an embodiment or personification of traits or qualities considered evil, disgusting, and/or intolerable.
