E ASIAN 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Petal
8 Mar 2018
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Audio recording started: 3:33 pm tuesday, march 6, 2018. Protagonist must use language of others to express his feelings. Nightingale to bring tea- p. 517- "good girl" and he quotes again. Actresses are from a low social class so being compared to one is a bad thing. She"s upset to a certain extent- but boundary of being intimate and being disrespected is rather thin. Ldy sometimes can"t allow herself to be persuaded she"s in love with him, because it doesn"t fit her status as a lady/how she"s supposed to be raised. Jia huan- jealous bc by flirts with maid who"s supposed to be his maid. Always emphasize how ugly/vulgar step-bro is, but how handsome by is. Strange relation between son of born concubine and one who"s the formal one. Jia huan, despite theory that she should be treated as concubine, but he nevertheless has soft spot/problem, that he"s son of concubine.
