ENGL 2810Y Lecture 3: The Secret Garden 3
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Indian cholera, tomb-like mansion compare beginning and ending. The moor familiar in british fiction: expansive, wide, unenclosed, wild, naturalization of agricultural processes, cultivation, evolutions of animal & plant life, moors like secret garden: groomed and controlled, left to go wild, celebrated and manicured. Mary is fighting with the wind which swept down from the moor looking from inside at outside, divide collapsed. One knew he could not get in, and somehow it made one feel very safe and warm inside a room with a red coal fire. The moor: mrs. medlock vs. dickon, assessment of moor reveals temperament and personality of character describing it response matters. Image: a view of the north york moors by colin grice. Miles and miles of wild land that nothing grows on but heather and gorse and broom, and nothing lives on but wild ponies and sheep (23)