{"id":1518,"date":"2002-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2002\/01\/12\/baroque-and-the-wasp-factory\/"},"modified":"2002-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"baroque-and-the-wasp-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2002\/01\/12\/baroque-and-the-wasp-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Baroque and &#8216;the Wasp Factory&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The Wasp Factory\u2019 &#8211; Written in 1984 by Ian Banks &#8211; Tells the story of Frank aged 16 &#8211; The murders: \u00b7 Aged 6 kills his cousin Blyth by poisoning him \u00b7 Aged 8 kills his brother Paul with a bomb \u00b7 Aged 11 kills his cousin Esmerelda with a kite &#8211; Eric his older brother is on the run from a mental hospital The ruin &#8211; Represented by the rusting old bomb on the beach, causes the death of Paul &#8211; Is a baroque symbol due to the melancholy contemplation of ruin and death The Labyrinth &#8211; Represented by the wasp factory that gives the book its title &#8211; Popular baroque image as it represents uncertainty, riddle and melancholy The inevitable arrival of catastrophe &#8211; The arrival of Eric, a destructive force represents the arrival of catastrophe &#8211; His progress is fragmented and there is an increasing awareness of catastrophe, which causes insecurity The androgynous other &#8211; Frank represents the androgynous other. Totally unaware of his gender or sexuality he is a baroque image &#8211; Women are regarded as the weaker sex and Frank agrees with the baroque notion that humans are weak due to their sexuality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Leary, 2002, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,22,123],"tags":[91,45,98],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-death","tag-gender","tag-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}