Friday, March 7, 2014

Childhood in Wonderland

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I am connecting the Alice books with William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying like so:

Just as Alice is ridiculously scorned, mislead, and reprimanded by the authority figures in her journey through Wonderland, the offspring of Addie Bundren represent the precarious condition of children that do not have reliable authority figures in their lives in the novel As I Lay Dying. Lewis Carroll and William Faulkner's works identify the damage caused to children by dysfunctional family environments and autocratic adults.

Feel free to critique, compliment, make suggestions, ask questions, or share!

5 comments:

  1. I think that you have a good start, but I was also wondering if you can make it a little more risky. As your thesis stands, it's pretty easy to support and hard to come up with a counter-argument. But this is definitely a paper I would be very interested in reading.

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    1. Thanks, Krista! Your comment is super helpful, and I'm excited to get a little risky with my thesis!

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  2. This has great potential, though I think you'll have to acknowledge the vastly different genres and audiences for these two works in order for people to buy into the comparisons.

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    1. I think that the vastly different genres would be a great foothold for "dividing an educated audience." If the two books were too similar, it would be a little too easy to compare them and your claim wouldn't mean much. I suggest that you play up the different genres with the idea of "look how they make the same point even though they're very different!"

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    2. Thanks to both of you! This will definitely help me organize and develop my ideas.

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