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Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
(1902)
INTRODUCTION:
P.81-86
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It was published in 1902 (Twentieth
Century).
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It has remained in both print,
and phenomenally popular with children.
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Part of a long tradition of storytelling involving animals with
human traits – a tradition dating back at least to the fables of
Aesop – having guiding principle the instructing of the child in important issues of
life choices and morality.
·
Peter Rabbit shows some
resistance to being read as straightforwardly moral tale.
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Its central themes relates to the
processes of child socialization and acculturation.
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This is discussed through the
theme of disobedience or transgression.
The
three essay are different in the question of the moral tendency of Peter Rabbit.
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Peter
Rabbit: Poter's story
Margret
Mackey
P87-95
This essay is
focusing on the relationship of text and illustrations:
· Potter's distinctive
language and detached tone receive particular attention, for example her
matter-of-fact description of events such as Peter's father having been made
into a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
· The integration of text
and pictures, and the use of
overall design elements in the book also, Mackey argues, important narrative devices that
involve the reader and move the story forward.
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The Tale of
Peter Rabbit
There are three distinctive elements of the picture book considered as
art form:
· The gutter: divides the two pages of any opening.
· The demands of the page turn,
· The convention that words and pictures will work
together in complementary way.
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Perspective
and Point of view in The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Carole Scott
P100-113
INTRODUCTION:
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Carole Scott tackles the issue of Potter's ambivalent moral perspective
in Peter Rabbit.
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She considers how this
ambivalence can be seen to be expressed through
word-image interaction, via the narrative
perspective (point of view) of
illustrations and words.
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She discusses how in Peter
Rabbit the separation of words and images differ from techniques used in some
more modern picture books.
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Apparently, The
Tale of Peter Rabbit is a naughty-boy story with
appropriate moral ending.
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While the story is
simple, the complexity of the narrative perspective and
point of view epitomize the multiple levels of apparent
and covert
ideologies, values, attitudes, biases, and hypocrisies.
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Whose side Potter is
on?? This is important question not only raises the issues
that involve the techniques and forms of communication that Potter employs to
convey her ambivalent perspective, but also leads us to examine the nature and
the role of her protagonist.
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The sympathies of
Potter and reader are with Peter, despite his naughtiness, his flouting of the
adults received wisdom.
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The inherent
discord or disharmony between moral stance and effect gives energetic life to
the plot.
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Although
Peter disobeys his mother and cause her anxiety and grief, commits trespass and
theft, and evades paternalistic
authority symbolized by Mr. McGregor.
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He
escapes all punishment for his misdeeds, except for a temporary stomachache
resulting from his greediness.
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We cannot even
applaud Peter's actions
as revenge for his father's death, for it is his
delight in breaking rules that motivates him.
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Aesop
in the Shadows
Peter
Hollindale
P96-99
In this essay Hollindale
argues against the notion that The Tale of Peter Rabbit is fundamentally a
moral fable in tradtion of Aesop.
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· Beatrix Potter was a specialist in concealment.
· Her story has a double meaning.
· She is subversive.
Find this by your understanding
it is important issue to discuss.
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