ENGA11H3 Lecture 7: ENGA11 Lecture 7.docx
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Music for this lecture: thieves in the night by black stars. We are offered illusions through fancy things convincing us that happiness is the lifestyle. Black star is about why african americans internalise racism and how it plays out in their communities. In the bell jar by sylvia plath, we have an accomplished white woman. She has the choice of relatively dominant positions in the hierarchy. She could be a homemaker and the wife of a wealthy man. She has so many options that the girls in the bluest eye do not have. What esther feels is that all the girls in manhattan are perfect barbie dolls. She feels like she can"t be a barbie doll because it would kill her. Continuum of dissociation: goes from normal to mpd, which is the most serious level of dissociation. Something like ptsd (post-traumatic stress disorder) is somewhere in the middle.
