21st November 2019

 What kind of characters are they?

How are they connected to Connell?

What kind of disease is it? => psychological disease → depression

To suggest + should

Is he afraid about his future?

Why is he afraid?

clear / definite

What makes him hopeless?

in depth

How is Marianne present in this chapter if she is? => Flashback

On that occasion

What kind of character is Helen?

To feel jealous

What makes somebody jealous?

What do you do when you are jealous?

Marianne doesn’t express her jealousy.

To play irony

Jealousy → the state of being jealous

Possessiveness → desiring to dominate and be the only controlling influence on someone

Different gender also express emotion differently

the most frequent strategy Connell expresses his feelings => “Telling” → Body Language

To make use of

Privilege of a not linear concept of time but a simultaneous concept of time 

                                                                                                              => containes past, present, time

                                                                                                              => where? In mind

Disregarded

Is Connell an egoistic or altruistic character? Connell is an egoistic character because he can’t find a solution to his malaise in relationships

What is he looking in other people?

Who is Ivonne? → university assistant

When he feel guilty?

What is the main objective of this chapter from the point of view of the novelist? 

What does the novelist want? → To underline Connell’s selfishness 

Is being selfish a way to discover our identity?

He develops selfishness to survive to his malaise

Communication => to put something in common 

Normal people have difficulty to be sincere with other people because they aren’t sincere with themselves

Difficulty in communication => difficulty in relationships

 

Verbs’ aspects:

simple → concreteness 

progressive → partial comprehension                                   Relationship

perfect → interaction between past and present

 

Freud, Yung, Anthropology had studied reactions to human behaviours

D.H. Lawrence

Interior Monologue => narrative technique used to express the stream of consciousness

Consciousness à centre of investigation

Care about form