EN 4220 Lecture 2: Lecture Two
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There was an artistic choice to alter certain historical events: to make a more engaging story, the choice to make john a. macdonald the main villain was to make a single person represent the entirety of parliament. Icon - important ways of having ideas or set of characteristics that get simplified: ex; canadian flag - a bunch of ideas from a single visual item. A process of compressing of where macdonald stands in for the government of canada and state system. In that compression, he allows that compression to evolve into a different type of complexion. Brown constantly tries to destabilize the notion of historical truth: he"s very aware of the instability of the claims of truth. However, he understands the importance of multiple truths. In undoing his own work, he"s made it very visible that he has decided to change bits of history and undermines his scholarship.
