EN 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Camisard, Nuclear Family, Young Goodman Brown
29 Apr 2018
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March 7, 2018
What happened in Wieland?
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appeared out of ohere, speious, iterested, desigig e,
• respetale either for their property, their irtues, or their ailities. Rather tha eig
the cause of the calamities that surround the Wielands, Carwin is merely a symptom of
the emptiness that makes them possible
• The wilderness in which he lives offers nothing to check a misguided leap of faith
• Fills the vacuum of authority by inventing a source of authority outside himself
o Who suffers more from the lack of authority?
• Cicero intended to make the picture of a single family a model from which to sketch the
condition of a nation
o Cicero is mentioned in the book right away
▪ Camisards and Cicero
• Wielands are orphans of civilization in the new world
o Nuclear family
March 19, 2018
Reading Due:
Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
• Hessian solider
o Mercenaries hired by British during revolution
• Ichabod
o Gluttony – very thin
o Gangly
o School teacher
• Brom bones
o Masculine
• Katrina
o Flirty
o Coquet – tease
o Very wealthy
March 23, 2018
Reading Due:
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
o Put a W in his name to separate himself from the judge he was related to at the
witch trials
o Pretty liberal
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