ISSN:
1988-5946
Journal Name:
North Wind Journal
Volume:
32
Issue:
32
Pages From:
1
To:
25
Date:
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Keywords:
Victorian Parenting, Ideology, Children's Literature, Narrative Theory
Abstract:
Ideologically, MacDonald uses the fantasy realm in the story as a narrative device that allows him to comment on the Victorian norms of parenting and to emphasize an alternative model based on the Christian virtues of love, trust and obedience. Therefore, the fantasy mode is used as a metaphor for reality with an ideological function.
