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Victor introduction
Victor is a dark ironic ballad, it follows the rhyme scheme abcb which is an adapted ballad form, it set in quatrains which Auden himself thought carried profound meaning.
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The form also appears to be simple in which it links in with the use of bildungsroman to create a nursery rhyme like rhythm to the poem, this also appears to be a mockery of the conservative character of victor who is portrayed as highly religious.
This is done through the characterisation of his father who is prominent in his childhood : ‘’his father..said ‘don't dishonour the family name’...’’.
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characterisation
Through out victor there are many allusions to historical figures. These are likened to characters as such as Anna whose characters are portrayed as duplicity as well as ambiguous. She encapsulates the wickedness and shame of ‘’jezebel’’, a whore and
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a whore and a prominiscuous biblical figure from the old testament. This also relates to the idea of the femme fatal figure
this is portrayed through the use of the intrinsic rhyme: ‘’her eyes, her lips, her breasts, her hips''. the classical allusions foreshadow/ also offer a prolepsis account of how she will be punished for her transgression
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Setting and time
Auden gives time a morphism in which it is given real living capabilities as well as foreshadowing his denoument. As explained in the poem it is transformed into cat a thuggish figure juxtaposed to the charcterisation of victor
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who is described as mousy. ‘’time watched victor day after day as a cat will catch a mouse’’ the simile used is vicious in the sense that it will soon catch victor for his
This can be audens response to how everything must come to an end whether it be good or bad but also portrays how victor will be tragic figure within the poem. Time is used as a guardian figure in which it is sure
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Time is also depicted through the weather to be harsh and so fits in with the characterisation of the father. In which its interpretation could be that being depicted through weather. ‘’it was a frosty december victor was only eighteen’’, this could
this could be a portrayal that the character of the father is depicted through the passing of time.
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Language used to consider
Victors name= victim victor First of april is when anna came Intrinsic rhyme her eyes her lips her breasts her hips
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Religious hellish her smile set men aflame But her kisses were like the best champagne- simile Victors as dull as a wet afternoon- simile they actually juxtapose each other Repetition of door was just ajar- door is the only thing that stands between
victor and reality gate way to hell door to heaven
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Nature and the sublime a bit of setting
The sky oposses victor who thinks his dad is there the nature is sublime in order to make him feel isolated it highlights the desolate area of victo. It also creates pathosin whic the reader can truly relate him to the tragic hero figure and feel sor
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Mountains used to destroy the hubris they are used ironically as victor is ‘’tumbling down ‘ like his tears the mountains still stand high. Mountains are also a metaphor for his father who in return to victors despair is not ‘’pleased’’ with him.
This also acts as a sychlic as it links back to the poems beginning in which the foreshadowing has met the denouement: ‘’dont dishonour the family name’’.
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Personification of nature used by auden in order to punish victor for his transgression and links to the gothic setting related to its replies. ‘’the oxymoronrunning so deep and still’’
onfuses victor as a character but also allows him to manipulate it in order to kill anna : ‘’the river answered ‘kill’ ‘’
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