ENGLIT 1382 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Magic Realism, Execution By Firing Squad, Incest
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Concept of melancholy- and the world became eternally sad. Birds, trees in order to make it culturally specific and give the story a fable-like, magical realist atmosphere. Deer are familiar to the reader- universal . Exotic - uproar of monkeys, volcanic ash, thick vegetation, ferns of palm trees. Arresting image: seems to come out of nowhere. Tilted slightly to the starboard, it had hanging from its intact masts the dirty rags of its sails in the midst of its rigging, which was adorned with orchids . Ship becomes a metaphor for how the people of macondo are stuck in a state of seclusion. All felt through the senses: eating the deer, smelling the blood, boots sinking into oil, bloody lilies- tangible, hearing the cries of birds and uproar of monkeys. Colors- golden salamanders, white and powdery palm trees. State of consciousness as well as location. We"ll never get anywhere, he lamented to rsula.
