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"Dover Bitch": Mockery Of Victorian Values In "Dover Beach"
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Hecht's parody "Dover Bitch" is a mockery of Victorian values shown in "Dover
Beach", as well as those of his own period. Hecht candidly exaggerates the
speech, ideas and symbols in "Dover Beach.".
The first evidence of Hecht's mockery is of speech at the beginning when he
writes " There stood Matthew Arnold and his girl ....
Part 2 of Essay .... faithfulness in the women's unfaithfulness is also a
reaction to the Victorian idea that the wife should be there for her husband. It
could also be a scary reality in Hecht's mind that times were changing and women
wouuld not be at every beaconing call of their husband. Hecht reinforces his
Ideas of change by taking Arnold's "...the cliffs of England stand, glimmering
and vast" and transforms the Victorian idea of women into "...cliffs of England
crumbling away behind them,". This supports the idea that Hecht i ....
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