Re: Red Death: Class Consciousness in Bram Stoker's "The Burial of the Rats"
Posted by:
Dale Nelson (IP Logged)
Date: 26 August, 2023 09:54PM
"Do you think they believed that humanity was tracking onward and upward? That the future was promising?:
I don't know Whitman well, but I'd guess he did, and probably Stevenson did.
"That's not my proposition, however. It's
'...sustained by a belief in a better future--material and/or spiritual.'"
I didn't focus on that enough. I still don't think a yea-sayer would have to expect a "better future" even if just materially. But probably yea-sayers usually would expect a "better future" of some sort.
I think I agree with what you say about one's children.