Sunday, October 12, 2008

Charles Dickens is re-defining himself...

I was struck by a question on this quiz, where someone in the class
came up with; What author wanted to marry Little Red Riding Hood and
the answer Charles Dickens. I feel that this is a regression of the
Oedipus Complex. This, where instead of having the boy love/obsess over
the mother, the father is now reversing the roles wanting to marry the
innocent child- L.R.R.H. Through Dickens obvious ties withchildrens
literature I feel that he had become what he did, he became so engulfed
in his work that he became the child in his work, loving another
(child) in what he himself was so deeply submersed in. He not only
loved L.R.R.H. because first off, how could you not love her, but also
in that he felt like a child again, re-defining his lines of gender,
realizing that this object in front of him is slightly different; now I
am not implying that this relationship is sexual in anyway (if you look at an early post of mine on the oedipus complex you will see why).

I mean who wouldn't want to marry that:

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