ENG210Y1 Lecture : ENG210 LEC09
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Can"t stop with liking/not liking a novel or even why in literary analysis. Crusoe literary character; figure of a text. Text = embodiment of a certain thinking of an issue that occurred many years ago. Moral response takes step further; push to meaning of text. Positive/negative: positive, morally reprehensible, crusoe is self-centered/selfish. Initial selfishness turns into his strength throughout his years in the island. Don"t mistake your moral reaction as analysis!! Primitive individualism gives off a world where all the individuals are at war with each other: for supplies, good, etc . Religion is matter of ____?___: crusoe disestablishes religion and sets up a social contract. By doing so, brings island to modern world. Crusoe recreates civilization as he knew it . Establishes a stable government, culture, civilized religion, and constitution : natural order. How is order represented in text? (or imagined?) Prohibitions no incest, no cannibalism: human nature rules.
