Knowledge Flashcards
1
Q
Longing to enetrate the secrets of nature
A
Phallic
Rape
2
Q
Deformed and abhorrent creature
A
Semantic field of birth
Deformed suggests somethings wrong with him
3
Q
Destiny was too potent … she … decreed my utter destruction
A
Blames fate
Never victors fault
No sense of individual responsibility
Overcome by need to fight his destiny
4
Q
I ardently Desiré the aquusition of knowldge
A
Repeats ardour - suggests his fisure above his morals
Sees knowledge as something to aquire
Delphic maxim - nothing in excess
5
Q
Penetrate into the recesses of nature … in all her hiding places
A
Personification suggests nature is woman woman is knowledge
Reminds us of the garden of Eden and the tree of knowledge
