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The Tale of Peter Rabbit (World of Beatrix Potter, #1)
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Peter Rabbit breaks the social contract by eating his neighbor’s vegetables. As Peter is hounded for his crimes, he rapidly loses the trappings of society - his shoes and his clothes - until he’s returned to his primal animal state, naked, shivering, driven out, an anthropomorphized JG Ballard. He can’t find the gate that will lead him from the garden of sin back to his safe home. After he finally escapes, he’s ostracized by his family and hung in effigy in the garden as a warning.
Beatrix Potter’s characters stray from social norms and are punished for it. She is essentially a coercive agent of the bourgeois. Have fun explaining “rabbit pie� to your three-year-old.
Beatrix Potter’s characters stray from social norms and are punished for it. She is essentially a coercive agent of the bourgeois. Have fun explaining “rabbit pie� to your three-year-old.
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Oct 25, 2019 05:50AM
Ouch sounds horrible.
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What island are you on? ...nvm, I stalked your profile, it's Puerto Rico. Whereabouts? I learned to scuba dive on Vieques.Very sorry you're sick and I hope you feel better soon! Listen, if ruining Beatrix Potter is what it takes to make you feel better, it was worth it.
Beatrix Potter was a naturalist, artist (obviously seen in her illustrations), and sheep breeder. She studied fungi, too so mushrooms in her illustrations are probably very accurate. My 23 year tells me about Beatrix Potter quite frequently, all kinds of fascinating tidbits. In our family we do not disdain Beatrix Potter. We revel in her genius
Hilarious! You must be a big fan of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (or just Linus).
I have no idea...is Linus a socialist or something? I don't know Charlie Brown at all!
See, e.g., "In examining a book such as Peter Rabbit, it is important that the superficial characteristics of its deceptively simple plot should not be allowed to blind the reader to the more substantial fabric of its deeper motivations. In this report, I plan to discuss the sociological implications of family pressures so great as to drive an otherwise moral rabbit to perform acts of thievery which he consciously knew were against the law. I also hope to explore the personality of Mr. Macgregor, in his conflicting roles as farmer and humanitarian.
Peter Rabbit is established from the start as a benevolent hero, and it is only..." Contrast this with his sister's take: The rest kind of gets lost in Schroeder's digressive recap of Robin Hood and Charlie Brown's procrastination, but you get the idea.
Awesomeness all around!
No kidding! Man, I ripped him off without even knowing it. Although I don't see how anyone gets "benevolent hero" from Peter Rabbit, who's obviously a hoodlum.
No doubt readers are too bedazzled by Peter's lippity-lippity to note his true character and so excuse it as mere youthful indiscretion.
Ms. Potter would be laughing, Alex. What a fabulous writer and illustrator she was--I just finished her entire collection, for the third time, with the youngest of my kids. They are all deeply ensconced in her work. My version of propaganda.
I love this clever, disdainful review of yours, Alex!
Brilliant! So what happened when you explained rabbit pie to your three-year old...?If it wasn't good, stay away from The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, or The Roly-Poly Pudding. I can still remember how much that terrified me as a child. I wouldn't even have it in my bedroom, with my other, much-loved, Potters!
Julie wrote: "Ms. Potter would be laughing, Alex. What a fabulous writer and illustrator she was--I just finished her entire collection, for the third time, with the youngest of my kids. They are all deeply ensc..."I bet she'd stop giggling when she saw the recent film adaptations.
