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Why not add your own? Log in to add a tag. While I posit that Jenny Wren exhibits agency throughout the novel, other characters such as Tiny Tim represent disability stereotypes characterized by absolute purity, strong spirituality, and passive objectification Norden Such images enable the able-bodied majority to view the disabled as inferiors and as idealized children in need of help The Christmas Carol is so thoroughly an allegory that Tiny Tim hardly seems a person at all but rather a foil for Scrooge's development.
Blind Bertha in The Cricket on the Hearth is another "sweet innocent. Rodas suggests that Dickens thought of himself as mediating for the Laura Bridgman, the blind deaf mute taught by Dr. Samuel Howe Bertha's father serves a similar satellite role, caring for his daughter and pulling the wool over her sightless eyes so that she believes that they are living in ease and comfort.
Rodas suggests that the only future Bertha envisions for herself is to fill a supporting satellite role for her husband if she could marry or for her father since she cannot.
In a very brief discussion of Jenny Wren, Rodas comments that Jenny can be viewed either as relegated to the world of dolls or, alternatively, as fulfilling a satellite role for her alcoholic father While Jenny fits this paradigm to the extent that she cares for her father, as I have shown, the relationship between Jenny and her father is only one aspect of her character.
Far more than a caregiver for her wayward parent, Jenny is a strong figure who guides the futures of the able-bodied hero and heroine, and forges her own way in the world.
Turning to Dickens's negative portrayals, Silas Wegg, the con artist in Our Mutual Friend , is deformed in character as well as in his body. At times the one-legged Wegg seems ludicrous, at other times malevolent. Although abysmally ignorant himself, he charges a high fee to read Roman history and poetry to Noddy Boffin, the "Golden Dustman" who inherits the Harmon fortune. Wegg's venality is no minor flaw to an author like Dickens who prized literacy and reproved selfish exploitation. More seriously, Wegg attempts to blackmail Boffin with a recent will, extracted from mounds of dust, which purports to disinherit Boffin and establish the Crown as the inheritor of Harmon's estate.
Every reader rejoices when Wegg's plot is foiled and he meets his comeuppance. However, Dickens does not play on Wegg's disability or ascribe his warped character to his incomplete body. One of the few moments when we sympathize with Wegg arises when he seeks to collect his severed limb from the "articulator of skeletons," Mr.
Venus, and expresses anguish at the loss of his limb and the dispersion of his body parts 80, I, 7. Perhaps the most glaring example of Dickens's denigration of a disabled character is Quilp, the one-eyed, misshapen arch-villain of The Old Curiosity Shop Dickens apparently constructed Quilp from the fairy tale source of the Old Yellow Dwarf Olshin and a real-life dwarf who lived in London, notorious for abusing his wife and his donkey McLean.
As Harry Stone has commented, Qulip is a "storybook goblin in a storybook residence"; Quip is an "ogre" and a "fairy tale master" Quilp has fangs for teeth and crooked legs; his giant head is perched on a dwarf's body.
In contrast to Jenny Wren's golden bower, which recalls the long hair of fairy tale princesses, Quilp's persona draws on the legend of the demonic dwarf.
One cannot exonerate Dickens from employing the trope of the demonic hunchback just as he emphasized Fagin's Jewish identity, drawing upon the prejudices of his time. It remains troubling that Dickens depicts Quilp as a stalker, who tracks "chubby, rosy, cozy little Nell … so compact, so beautifully modeled, so fair, with such blue veins and such transparent skin, such little feet, and such winning ways" "Curiosity," 9. Quilp goes so far as to propose to Nell that she become "Mrs.
Quilp the second when Mrs. Quilp the first is dead" 6. Robert Newsom observes that the sexuality of Quilp's sadism, bordering on pedophilia, is more explicit than we might expect in Victorian fiction However, neither of the other stalkers in Our Mutual Friend Bradley Headstone and the corpse-dredger Rough Riderhood suffers from physical impairment.
Dickens thus avoids direct association of bodily deformity and depravity. The blind villain in Barnaby Rudge is thoroughly odious, acting as an accessory to a murderer and attempting to extort funds from poor Mrs. If Blind Bertha is cloying in her saintliness, Stagg is her wicked and ruthless antithesis. Dickens confronts the expectation that because Stagg has lost his vision, he should have "something in its place almost divine" , Ch.
As Klages observes, Stagg "explodes the sentimental association of blindness with a self-sacrificing goodness" Stagg is a waste product of a society that has left him to live on his wits and now reaps the consequences of his criminal behavior. Yet he is no more evil than other sighted villains in the novel and their counterparts in real life. Barnaby Rudge offers us an example of another caring reciprocal relationship, this time between a simple son and his devoted mother.
The eponymous hero, mad Barnaby Rudge, presents a complex portrait of mental disability. Barnaby is at once sympathetic, credulous and foolish. He warmly loves not only his devoted mother but also his utterly worthless father and his diabolical pet raven. Lured by Stagg who dangles before him dreams of gold, the boy heads to London in a misguided effort to strike it rich and make his mother proud.
Following his dangerous involvement with the Gordon riots, Barnaby is imprisoned and barely escapes the gallows. Of interest here is less Barnaby's simplicity or the collective madness of the Gordon riots, than the loving bond between him and his mother. While at first blush this relationship may appear unequal, the love between Barnaby and his mother is as mutually nourishing as the bond between Betty Foy and her simple son Johnny in Wordsworth's Idiot Boy Rudge, who has lost everything else that matters to her, clings to her son who provides the only meaning in her difficult life.
As in Wordsworth's ballad, when Mrs. Rudge loses sight of her son she suffers acute anxiety; it is touch and go whether the boy will survive.
Having considered the extremes of helpless innocents and deformed villains, we should examine a disabled woman who occupies a middle ground — Little Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield An eccentric dwarf who initially repels with her vituperative tongue, Miss Mowcher later emerges as a sympathetic, even heroic figure.
As Julia Saville observes, "Mowcher's eccentricity is revealed as a disguise that has hidden a closet sentimentalist" We come to appreciate that Miss Mowcher's biting tongue and off-putting manner is a defense mechanism:.
At the end of the novel, Miss Mowcher, courageously captures Littimer, Steerforth's servant and confederate in the seduction of Little Emily, an improbable scenario, but one that portrays Miss Mowcher in a heroic light. To evaluate the character of Miss Mowcher, we have to consider the back story. After the early installments of David Copperfield appeared, Jane Hill, the real life manicurist and chiropodist who served as a source for the character, sent Dickens a letter of protest, followed up by a note from her attorney.
Hill complained that while she had long suffered from physical deformities, the odious portrayal of her person in the initial installments of the novel had heaped scorn on top of misery. While admitting that he had not originally intended to make Miss Mowcher a favorable character, Dickens promised to rectify his error and expressed remorse for the pain that he had caused. Betty Adelman suggests that by transforming Miss Mowcher into a heroine, Dickens not only carried through on his promise to Ms.
Hill but showed sincere regret and empathy I suggest that the Dickens-Hill exchange of letters recalls a similar correspondence when a Jewish woman, Eliza Thomas, complained about Fagin in Oliver Twist In response, Dickens not only apologized but presented a favorable portrait of a Jew in the form of Riah in Our Mutual Friend.
In both of these instances, Dickens succumbed to the temptation to present stereotypes, and later repented. In an obviously autobiographical passage, Miss Mowcher accuses David of mistrusting her because of her size. Try not to associate bodily defects with mental my good friend, except for a solid reason. Through Miss Mowcher, Dickens imparts the lesson that he has learned: "Trust me no more, but trust me no less, than you would trust a full-sized woman …" Jenny Wren escapes the binary categories of pitiable or contemptible, innocent or evil.
While Jenny is an eccentric, she is a successful person who has turned hardships into assets. She talks to herself and scolds her father; however, on the whole she is admirable, resourceful, generous and imaginative. Who's That in Charge? Schotland Georgetown University E-mail: ss georgetown.
Introduction It is a frequent complaint that Dickens's ideal heroine is the angel of the house and that his "stereotypical presentations of angels, fallen sisters, and eccentric women regrettably leave [today's readers] in search of a viable heroine" Golden Wrens living in the north of Britain are more resilient than those in the south. There are six known subspecies of wren from Britain and Ireland, four of which are island races, found on Shetland zetlandicus , Fair Isle fridariensis , St Kilda hirtensis and the Outer Hebrides hebridensis.
A fifth indigenous species is found across the northern and western mainland, intergrading with a sixth, troglodytes , in the south-east of England. In appearance, the upper parts and flanks have dark barring and the pale eyebrow supercilium is prominent. The underparts are paler with grey barring. The wren is typically associated with a wide range of habitats — woodland, farmland, heathland, urban and suburban habitat, and can be seen year round exploring shady, overgrown places on or near the ground, for small insects and spiders.
During the breeding season, males make several nests from which the female chooses one in which to lay her eggs. The wren lays between one and nine eggs, which only the female incubates, although both adults will feed the young chicks. Officially appears on Electric Arguments. Spread the love! If you like what you are seeing, share it on social networks and let others know about The Paul McCartney Project.
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