1. by DAVID LODGE THINKS… CHAPTER 16

2. Chapter XVI is organized into three stories about the same theme: SCIENCE vs PHILOSOPHY  Mary Comes OutMary Comes Out  Mary’s RoseMary’s Rose  Mary Sees RedMary Sees Red

3. Mary, a grown woman, sees colours for the first time she lives into a kind of prison in which only white, black and grey exist a masked man teaches her a lot of things about a wide range of subject everyday FINAL TEST: A RED BUDROSE Mary dies for the intensity of her sensations and thrills how do humans react when they see colours for the first time and what happen in their brains? Denotative Analysis BACK

4. guinea pig: Mary Denotative Analysis scientists philosophers VS − is colour the same for everybody? − does it happen just in your brain? − is colour different for everybody? − does it exist on its own? Mary sees, smells and brushes the rose and exclaims: FINAL TEST: A RED ROSE ‘I don’t know [which colour it is] and I don’t care… a rose is a rose!’ BACK

5. philosophers and scientists jailed Mary from the day of her birth her books taught her everything about everything FINAL TEST: at the age of thirty-one they take her into a white room with a red rose unfortunately they forgot Mary is a woman and has got her period BLOOD IS RED! Denotative Analysis

6. 1. – Mary Willingdon – Lucy – Hubert Dearing, the masked man – Miss Calcutt 2. – Mary – Scientists and philosophers 3. – Mary – Giles Dickinson, philosopher – Mr. Stigwood, neuroscientist Characters

7. TIME we don’t have any temporal reference signalling the first two stories but the third is set in the future, in year 2031 SPACE - secret house - colourless house’s underground - white room Setting

8. Lodge uses the third-person narration which provides the reader with a full view of the characters and their feelings and he speaks directly to the reader (‘she did not see color when she was a baby like you and I’) there are also dialogues between characters which complete our knowledge about what is happening Narrative Technique

9. 1.Human beings are fragile in front of thrills Mary dies and his jailer won’t ever have his answers 2. Senses are more important than mental knowledge philosophy beats science 3. The reason why Mary already knew red colour concerns body structure and scientific notions science beats philosophy are colours merely brain’s reactions or are they a part of us that exists on their own? through her death Mary will keep this secret for her own From the Reader’s Point of View

10. to feel blue to be red with anger to be green with envy New words and expressions minute/hour – hand rosebud to kneel to rise the stake to nourish dungeon 1 2 3 lancetta minuti/ore bocciolo di rosa inginocchiarsi essere triste essere rosso di rabbia essere verde d’invidia alzare la posta nutrire prigione sotterranea

11. Mary’s name symbolic choice: Mary = Jesus’ mother innocent pure uncontaminated she can be turned into whatever her jailers want ‘Willing’don : volunteershe’s glad to do it

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