ENG140Y5 Lecture Notes - Frame Story, Dawning Information Industry, Sigmund Freud
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Conrad as a 19th century realist: focus upon detail and accuracy in plot, setting and character (describing the plot, characters, how they dress- older way of writing- 19th century: real life situations and events grounded in real history (real time and place, very descriptive, omniscient, third person narration (narrator is all knowing, performs the same role as god would, know/see/understand everything) Content: what a text is about: its story, subject, matter and ideas (what it is about) Form: how a text is written, its genre, technique, style and language (ex. novel not a poem) Understanding a text requires both form and content and the way they interrelate. Conrad"s modern themes and issues (content) (subject of racism, colonization, human psychology- marlow/krutz, death of religion- where did the civilization the europeans had go: sigmund freud. We are motivated by a desire for survival and pleasure. Humans are invented into religion in an unconscious effort to return to infancy.
