BEFORE SHE MET ME

1. SEMINAR TOPICS

1.1. Postmodernist approach to past

1.2. Motive of search

2. STRUCTURE

2.1. epigraphs

2.1.1. MacLean

2.1.2. Moliere

2.2. CHAPTER TITLES

2.2.1. Three suits and a violin

2.2.2. The horse and the crocodile

2.2.3. Cross-eyed bear

2.2.4. Feminian sandstones

2.3. voice - narrator

2.4. cluastrophobic

2.5. ending

2.6. quotes

2.6.1. Rebecca

2.6.2. Gormenghast

2.6.3. The End of the Affair

2.6.4. Kipling

3. GENRES

3.1. tone

3.2. psychological thriller

3.3. black comedy/farce

3.4. fabliau

3.4.1. cuckold

3.4.2. man of honor

3.5. lover's revenge tragedy

3.5.1. Othello

4. SYNOPSIS

5. THEMES

5.1. reading life vs. reading books

5.2. love (triangles)

5.3. guilt vs. liberation

5.4. reason vs. passion

5.5. control of primitive and unwanted emotions

5.5.1. obsession

5.5.2. Jealousy

5.5.2.1. romantic love implying failure

5.6. coming to terms with one's identity

6. CHARACTERS

6.1. Graham

6.1.1. age 42

6.1.2. victim of patriarchy

6.2. Anne

6.2.1. age 35

6.3. Jack Lupton

6.4. Barbara

7. CONTEXT AND SETTING

7.1. the TRIUNE brain

7.2. PATRIARCHY

7.2.1. social norms: sexual revolution and its long-term effects

7.2.2. RULE of men over both men and women

7.2.2.1. need of control

7.2.3. collective expression of power - social control