ENGLISH 3G06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: White-Collar Crime, Performativity, Scholasticism
16 Apr 2017
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There is a lot of anxiety b/c sincerity can be performed. The end of the play suggests that aesthetics have become more important. 39: macheath was going to be hanged but then he was excused for his crimes. There is no connection b/c punishment and crime. Poetical justice aesthetical justice is not the same as actual justice (a justice that doesn"t fit with the genre of the play) The ending has to be changed so that the play doesn"t end in a tragedy. The performativity is more important than actual justice. The point of the play is to show that there is upper class, white collar crime that they get off of b/c they have the money. Poor people are punished for their crimes but rich people also commit crimes but they get off for their crimes. 693: complaining about capital punishment and how it was the punishment for 200 different crimes in the 18th century.
