ENG305H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Smallpox, Fop
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Men have longer chains than women begging for love despite marriage. Hymen god of marriage but also represent female virginity. Men seeking other virgins, younger women as wife grows old. Ruin sexual (women disadvantage by pregnany) lives for women shorter (and youth) Suggesting men have cultural sanction/social encouragement to pursue extramarital affairs. But people didn"t marry for love at the time, only economical. Angry at chemists and doctors who promised cure, saying how sellers and vendors they sold much because men bought gifts for her from them. Ridiculing flavia for lamenting she won"t get gifts anymore. Disembodied voice, exchange between impersonal voice and speaker. Flavia looking in mirror, don"t recognize self, disembodiment and depersonalization, alienation from body . Masked, deprivation and echoing of voices, confusion of voices and identity and others chamber of self. Satire & half-goat beast exercise of ridiculing considered healthy -> teaching people where they belong (bringing celebrity down to earth: lover: a ballad.
