English 2033E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lewis Carroll, Didacticism

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2033E
• Professor: Clarissa Suranyi

Document Summary

Parodic versions of particular poems (which alice finds, come out differently. English 2033 unit 6: represents a rebellion against moralistic children"s literature. (e writes in wonderland(cid:524). (e also parodies the popular children"s poem (cid:498)father. The duchess finds morals for every situation, each one being more and more absurd. Victorian moralism becomes, literally, nonsense: carroll resists the more subtle methods of conveying moral values, such as, alice"s adventures in wonderland offers several irreverent parodies of the idealized portraits of women. According to the victorian ideals of femininity, women are supposed to be selfless, maternal, and nurturing. Mothers in alice"s adventures in wonderland have none of these qualities. Victorian moralistic children"s poems; the novel also parodies other forms of didacticism, such as the victorian system of education. The humour arises from laughing at subjects taken seriously at school. Alice and the mock turtle have a bragging contest about the subjects they have studied.