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Tomboy
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A tomboy is a girl who exhibits characteristics or behaviors considered typical of a boy, including wearing masculine clothing and engaging in games and activities that are physical in nature and are considered in many cultures to be unfeminine or the domain of boys. |
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Fern: tomboy ⇒ willing to wear dresses
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Didacticism & Moral
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Didacticism: Didacticism is a term that refers to a particular philosophy in art and literature that emphasizes the idea that different forms of art and literature ought to convey information and instructions along with pleasure and entertainment. The word didactic is frequently used for those literary texts which are overloaded with informative or realistic matter and are marked by the omission of graceful and pleasing details. Didactic, therefore, becomes a derogatory term referring to the forms of literature that are ostentatiously dull and erudite. However, some literary texts are entertaining as well as didactic. |
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Discussion on the Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter :
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Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit. |
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Women couldn’t inherit any fortune in that period unless they got married. another example : Orlando (film)⇦click
The film begins in the Elizabethan era shortly before the death of Queen Elizabeth I. On her deathbed, Elizabeth promises an androgynous young nobleman named Orlando a large tract of land and a castle built on it along with a generous monetary gift which she will only bequeath to him if he consents to her command. Orlando then travels to Constantinople as English ambassador to the Turks, where he is almost killed in a diplomatic fracas. Waking up the next morning, he learns something even more startling: he has physically transformed into a woman overnight. The now Lady Orlando comes home to her estate in Middle Eastern clothing, only to learn that she faces several impending lawsuits arguing that Orlando was a woman to begin with and therefore has no right to the land or any of her/his royal inheritance. |
The Tale of Peter Rabbit⇦click for the text
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ⓐ “They lived with their Mother in a sand-bank, underneath the root of a very big fir-tree.” ⇒ sloping raised land, especially along the sides of a river ⓑ “your Father had an accident there” “AND tried to put his foot upon Peter, who jumped out of a window, upsetting three plants.” ⇒ understatement (Understatement is way of speaking which minimizes the significance of something. When using understatement, a speaker or writer often employs restraint in describing the situation at hand and uses an expression with less emphasis or strength than would be expected.) ⓒ “NOW run along, and don't get into mischief. I am going out.” ⇒ start behaving badly ⓓ “She bought a loaf of brown bread and five currant buns.”
ⓔ “MR. McGREGOR was on his hands and knees planting out young cabbages.”
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Literary Nonsense
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The phrase "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" was coined by Noam Chomsky as an example of nonsense. |
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Nonsense is a communication, via speech, writing, or any other symbolic system, that lacks any coherent meaning. Sometimes in ordinary usage, nonsense is synonymous with absurdity or the ridiculous. Many poets, novelists and songwriters have used nonsense in their works, often creating entire works using it for reasons ranging from pure comic amusement or satire, to illustrating a point about language or reasoning. |
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