ENGL 449 Lecture 3: English 449 W3D1 Lecture 3
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Bethlehem was opened to visitors: people would tour the madhouse. Encourages others to act sane: not a religious run hospital. How do religious people allow the mad to be treated so poorly: the mad were seen as less than humans, these people don"t have reason, have fallen from reason. Tuke tries to establish that madness is not the absence of reason: it"s temporary. Temporarily mad but only partially: ghting against the argument of dehumanization of the mad. Edgar allen poe: doctor tarr and professor fether: written and published when poe is in philadelphia (1844-45) Poe was aware of the friend asylum a quaker-ran asylum: the asylum is set in france. A private asylum for those who could a ord it. A scarcely tenantable location: the narrator is associating it with non-humanism, tension between outside and inside. It was once beautiful but was not taken care of.
