English 2072F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Little Red Riding Hood, Cockroach, Unconscious Mind
17 Dec 2016
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Gender roles: adam is the superior to eve. Try to answer questions about human existence. Earth is to be desired and controlled by humans. Personifies the american spirit as america growing into its own: personifies the muscularity, energy and industriousness of an america finding itself in terms of territory and commercial enterprise. Yankee ingenuity: cheats himself a job, builds the ship. American identity/anxiety: nation was being filled with immigrants, bunyon looks out over the foreign workers to ensure productivity, wants others to conform to the vision of the ideal american or otherwise be under suspicion. Manifest destiny: expansion over the north american continent was justifiable and inevitable, god given mission. Imagination vs. reality-wants to be the hero: his fantasies develop from real life cues. Reflects masculinity before wwii: different than bunyon because he is powerless- contrast. He imagines himself in control even though he is not. His fantasies make him a hero and innovative.
