What is its attitude towards the “outside” of culture?
What is its attitude towards the “outside” of culture?
July 13, 2020 Comments Off on What is its attitude towards the “outside” of culture? Uncategorized Assignment-helpEvery culture makes distinctions between what is inside the social order and what is outside, between the human and the non-human (a category which can include animals, plants, natural processes, monsters and the miraculous). Cultures organize themselves to contain or exclude these “outside” things; social organization also works to control certain violent human tendencies inside the culture (anger, lust, fear, greed, etc.). How does the social world depicted in Beowulf do this? That is, what does it exclude, and why? What is its attitude towards the “outside” of culture? How does it control the forces that threaten social stability within the hall?2- In between every story and its audience stands a narrator who tells the story; the narrator has certain attitudes, opinions, interests and objectives which direct the audience’s understanding of the story. This is one of the most basic, and yet most complex, facts of literature. Some narrators are intrusive while others are discreet and practically invisible. Describe the relationship between the narrator and the story, and between the narrator and the audience, in Beowulf.http://www.gutenberg.org/files/981/981-h/981-h.htm (link to Beowulf reading)


