LITTRANS 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Body Plan, Cell C
23 Mar 2017
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Littrans204 - lecture 16 - invitation to a beheading day 2 (2/24) Nabokov the writer tells us that the reader is nearing the end of the novel on pg 2 --surprising because there is still 200 more pages left. Nabokov gives theme of impending execution a new twist. Sexual dreams will indict prisoner of rape. Everybody is a prison guard for cincinnatus in his world -- his freedom is his ability to imagine and that is considered a crime. Cincinnatus leaves the fortress and goes to the city until he enters his home and finds himself back in the prison cell. His mind is actually what makes him human, not his body. His mind creates and relates with his world in an imaginative and creative way. Attached to this world and fears death even though he is a prisoner in his body form. Believes he is immortal in the spiritual sense this material world is a deception.
