Kultura a literatura - semináře

Ferdinand de Saussure

• Each of these letters has parole – Every character use English in his own way

• All these paroles are part of langue (langue – the whole, all the structure)

• Parole of each character is different according to education, culture, social position – all characters understand each other = signifier and signified

Narrators

• Several narrators – different by age, sex… - multiple narrators

• We have several plots

• Characters are unreliable

Structure of the text:

• Novel

• Cover, introduction

Mr. Bramble – intradiagesis

Author has a variety of tools – figures of speech…

16. 11.

Superego - It is influenced by culture, society

Bramble – in his position (he has money) it is a duty to have a wife and children; relationship between his sickness and his personality

Tabitha – marriage (she has to be a married woman), if she won’t get married, she won’t have children

Lydia – there is a pressure on her to get married but not with everybody (only with respected man), she should be obedient (poslušná)

Jeremy – pressure on him to get married to a good family (you marry for your family, not for yourself), he is allowed to have sex with girls as long as nobody knows it

• Woman can’t have sex – she can’t even be under suspicion

Servants – they should be discreet (they know things about their masters)

Jenkins – servant of Tabitha – she wants to be married

Lismahago – he is Scottish – he should go to army – you are respected, his status changed – from prisoner to respected man – he got married, he had children – his superego is to be brave

Tabitha

Lismahago win-win situation – after marriage she became a respectable woman, he got the money after marriage, he had a stable situation

Family life

• Lydia + Jeremy – they lost their parents (According to Freud these people will go to maturity with some problems)

• Mr. Bramble – he is there for them (as a father)

• Tabitha – tries to act as a mother figure but she isn’t successful

• There are 3 marriages

ID

• It appears when our needs are not satisfied, it is our “survival instinct”

Archetypes

Animus – ideal masculine figure

Anima – ideal feminine figure

Trickster – plays jokes on other people

30. 11.

Gender

Jeremy -

Lydia – she is supposed to get married (not only for herself but for the family – because of money)

Lismahago – he travelled – he got married in New World, he was tortured – it was like a test – if he can survive – they respected him after all

Eusign Murphy – Lismahago’s friend

14. 12.

Katherine Mansfield

• Writer

• She is very keen on details – it means something

• Born in New Zealand, then she left for London

Story: The Wind Blows

• Wind means movement, change

• A dog with three legs – he lost something very important but it keeps going – we can lose something but we have to go on

• Private music class – more intimate, the teacher is interested only in us – we are closer

• Their relationship – it is more than it should be, it is too much intense

• Ring on the teacher’s hand – we don’t know if it is just a piece of jewellery or if he is married

• White dog – white is a nice colour – contrast – the dog has a three legs

• Music lesson at 10 o’clock – She has a music lesson – Writers use a pronoun to shock – we don’t know if “she” is Matilda, her mother…

• Tenerife work – only rich people can afford things from Tenerife

• Beethoven is a bond between the teacher and Matilda