ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Miss Trunchbull
Document Summary
The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe 3; matilda 1. The gendered child: father christmas"s presents, lucy is the first child who leads the way to narnia, girls got healing stuff whereas boys got fighting stuff. Susan"s horn can ask for peter"s help and enact peter"s manliness and whatever: girls got bow and dagger, and they don"t participate in the battle. So not their place, despite being armed. Significant with the white witch, because she"s a woman who does fight. Played off against mrs. battle, figure of maternal and nurturing domesticity. Goodness is identified with recognizable british middleclass domesticity. Girls and women who remain within that role are on the good side. Women on the other are cast out: gender is also classed: Order of boys is an aristocratic one: birth trumps whatever, throne inheritance. Feminine values however are constructed from middleclass ones.
