peter grimes
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- Created on: 03-10-21 16:13
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- Peter Grimes
- AO3
- Crabbe attempted to realistically portray the misery and degradation of rural poverty.
- had a difficult home life himself - condemned the hypocrisy around him - social realism
- Realities and miseries of human life, concentrating on realistic, unsentimental accounts of the life of the poor and the middle classes
- The first act to regulate child labour in Britain passed 1803.= acts were ineffective. Workhouse took in children of the poor - workhouses were essentially prison-like structures, designed principally ‘to grind rogues honest’.
- Protestant Church v powerful in rural England. Religion inspired reformers such as William Wilberforce.
- The slave trade was abolished in 1807 – perhaps linking this to how there is still a ‘slave trade’ amongst the poor
- Questioning human nature – Rousseau asserted that people were innately good but corrupted by society. -> children learn right/wrong through experiencing consequences actions rather than brutality
- movement away from Romanticism - rural setting in which the people live in harmony - his crimes shatter harmony and make the nature seem hostile and threating
- The Borough is a collection of poems by George Crabbe published in 1810. Written in heroic couplets, the poems are arranged as a series of 24 letters, covering various aspects of borough life and detailing the stories of certain inhabitants’ lives.
- Crabbe attempted to realistically portray the misery and degradation of rural poverty.
- AO4
- CRIME, MURDER AND VIOLENCE
- Father's violence when he was young - grimes is a cruel criminal, who inflicts prolonger torture, physical and emotional abuse.
- CRIMINAL PSYCHE
- Volatile/unstable criminal. Sets himself against the world - reader views him as extremely dangerous/isolated. Mocks the justice system, doesn't respect the rules of society?
- Sadistic - He rejects love/morality - terrified of torture and has glimpses of morality - confesses but interwoven with a desire to defend his actions to escape damnation
- VICTIMS
- Boys are presented as innocent - grimes is a victim of ostracization - suffering beyond the grave
- PUNISHMENT AND JUSTICE
- Shows the failure of the justice system - Grimes escapes any legal punishment, but he is an outcast, punished by his damnation - brings about his own punishment
- SOCIAL COMMENTS
- The community are passive and culpable - they're at fault for not intervening - later they do the Christian thing and forgive him
- - very easy for Grimes to abuse these boys, vulnerability and fault of society
- SETTING
- boat - Peter's refuge - small + prevents boys' escape later become Grime's prison
- London - behaviour goes unnoticed - corrupt/evil like Grimes - setting used to mirror people's responses to Grimes
- Sea used to reflect emptiness of Grimes' exile - outcast in the marsh is the only place he's accepted - isolation drives him mad, setting become part of his punishment
- CRIME, MURDER AND VIOLENCE
- AO3
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