EN 4504 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Middle Ages, Greek Fire
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It makes him seem like he was meant to be the king; makes him a wise king; american dream, knowledge, and rising from nothing. Idea of trajectory of history (we see this in middle ages); telling it right in the direction of justice/greater order. Merlin as the idea of progress ->need to produce something that could be consumed by the contemporary audience. 2 -> he is discovered on the ship. The issue of the island -> bottom of page 384 ( The time line is deshuffled; the author mentions things in random placed and fails to tell the reader about it until later on. The idea of the main character being from rome and then travelling to. Refashion something (be aware of the original; to rewrite it and revise it according to your own cultural ideas whether or not you are aware of it.
