ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Adventure Fiction, Divine Providence, Social Alienation
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Jack and the beanstalk: http://www. pitt. edu/~dash/type0328jack. html#lang , which we will discuss briefly next monday. Main theme: duty, courage, perseverance: it is jack"s duty to protect his mother, the fairy says the entire ordeal is all a test to show jack"s worthiness to have his inheritance restored. You have acted like a brave knight"s son, and deserve to have your inheritance". In other versions, the main motivation is just theft, mischievousness. Icr = adventurous boys, protecting women: despite jack"s birth rights, he must earn his inheritance, manliness is a narrative, plot has to be proved, it is contingent, thinking ahead (and maximizing resources, ex. Saving food in reserves in case of a later date) Read eagerly by young people in abridged forms, the full novel is quite detailed. The appeal of rc according to sir walter scott is that to identify with rc means you have a set of values.
