Authors
Osama Jarrar
Pages From
1
Pages To
25
ISSN
1988-5946
Journal Name
North Wind Journal
Volume
32
Issue
32
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.