Free Fall: Context

Free Fall: Context

1. Beloved

   • Fugitive Slave Law Act
   • Margaret Garner
     • Killed her children so that they don't return to slavery - was the inspiration for Sethe
   • Slave Trade
     • Transatlantic Slave Trade
       • People forced into boats without any space or food and water - many people had died just from the journey itself.
   • Civil War

2. Dorian Gray

   • The 'Dandy'
   • Victorian Era
   • Dr Faustus
   • Homosexuality was seen as taboo and was illegal at the time
     • Oscar Wilde was a homosexual
   • Opium Den's
   • fin-de-siecle
   • The Aesthetic Movement
   • The Yellow Book
   • Hedonism
   • Narcissism