ENGL 1F91 Lecture Notes - White Noise, The Bluest Eye

• School: Brock University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 1F91
• Professor: Jenny Janke

Document Summary

Godot: waiting is an awareness of being brought on by an absence of doing. Essence or the soul preceded existence and it was the purpose of existence to discover the worth of the soul. The events of hiroshima/nagasaki and the holocaust obliterated this notion of an essential goodness and essence was then seen as a retrospective myth of origin set up to bestow a fictional coherency on the otherwise debilitating randomness of experience. In reality, we mortgage our future3 to the myth of origin and keep assuming a continued loyalty to the myth is the only way to solve current problems. Technology is not about gadgets, it is a way of thinking that can only view surroundings as a resource to be utilized or destroyed. Humanity itself becomes just another resource as the holocaust makes terribly clear. Discourse establishes what is real and what is imaginary but there is nothing inherent in this.