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Oct. 13th, 2011 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethHomework is 36 pages of marxist psychoanalytic reading of Goblin Market that keeps on talking about how other readers are Doing It Wrong by reading the text and thinking it makes sense. I keep wanting to pat the writer on the head and suggest maybe there's another way of looking at that, ie, if everyone can make sense of it except them, then maybe just possibly it's because it does in fact make sense? *sigh*
At the moment I'm on page six and it's treating it as a vast mystery that Lizzie resists eating the fruit.
Why is someone's ability to say no a mystery?
Within the terms of the poem the vast majority of humanity says no, and you can tell on account of they don't die of goblin fruit.
Lizzie is only odd because she's saying no to their face and sticking to it.
Drat it, I have to summarise this thing out loud in class tomorrow. If I can even be awake in class tomorrow.
I suppose I can get in an argument with it as long as it's a coherent argument that presents clearly what I'm calling daft.
At the moment I'm on page six and it's treating it as a vast mystery that Lizzie resists eating the fruit.
Why is someone's ability to say no a mystery?
Within the terms of the poem the vast majority of humanity says no, and you can tell on account of they don't die of goblin fruit.
Lizzie is only odd because she's saying no to their face and sticking to it.
Drat it, I have to summarise this thing out loud in class tomorrow. If I can even be awake in class tomorrow.
I suppose I can get in an argument with it as long as it's a coherent argument that presents clearly what I'm calling daft.