English 2033E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Butler, Wine Cellar, Hellmouth

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

Document Summary

Macdonald rejects this social snobbery and bias, he also i(cid:373)plies that lootie"s failure to u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d pri(cid:374)(cid:272)ess-hood is linked in ways to her position as a vulgar servant. Ire(cid:374)e"s defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374) of pri(cid:374)(cid:272)ess-hood focuses not on social status but on moral correctness. She seems to be bravely free of snobbery but uses her social position to put lootie in her place: macdonald seems to be trying to establish that princess-hood is entirely a moral matter. The implication is that all good children can be princes and princesses but princess-hood is never entirely divorced from social status: macdonald also incorporates another genre: the christian allegory. An allegory has 2 levels of meaning: a surface level and a symbolic level. The goblins have been driven underground but they keep immerging and making mischief (like repressed anger and sexual desires). In this view the goblins are not evil, they just need to be accepted, acknowledged, and understood.