ENGL 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Arthur Helps
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Duessa encouraged the rck to ght harder and he wins: hypocritical because she had pledge loyalty to sans joy. She was actually speaking to sans joy. Shows how ignorant rck: works in his favor though. Duessa saves and removes sans joy from the ght: takes him to the underworld. The hero usually descends into the underworld for knowledge: duessa (the bad guy) goes into the underworld for healing for sans joy, ties with scripture of hell being bad. Adds classical characters because his audience would recognize these characters. Speaks to aesculapis: god of medicine, in hell for bringing someone back to life, taking the role of god. Rck nds proud people from history locked in the house of pride"s dungeon. Una is taken by the fauns of a savage nation": they could tell she is noble, pure and innocent. They try to worship her: una tells them to stop. Monday, january 30, 2017: shows the protestantism of the author.
