Anthropology 2201F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mopsy, Adventure Fiction, Unit
19 Jul 2015
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The tale of peter rabbit combines elements of the boys" adventure story with another popular children"s genre: the picture book, a genre in which beatrix potter was an important pioneer. Although many children"s books are published with illustrations, a picture book is different in that the pictures are integral to how the story is told: indeed, they are as important as the words. First of all, he is the only one of his siblings to have a human name (flopsy, mopsy, and. Mr. mcgregor: restrictive maternal figure: the male protagonist in adventure fiction often feels a need to escape from female authority figures. In this case, peter"s mother gives the prohibition, and the accompanying illustration foreshadows peter"s disobedience: all the girls are turned toward their mother, obediently receiving their instructions along with their baskets but peter alone is turned away.
