Innocence lost at the contact of the threatening adult world in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events : Negativity and disenchantment through the narrator's eyes

Auteur(s)

Compoint Ilona

Année de soutenance

2018

Directeur(s)

Rouby Bertrand

Diplôme

Master - 1ère année

Mention

Langues et Sociétés

Parcours-type

Langues Littératures et Civilisations Étrangères

Composante

Université de Limoges. Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines

Thème(s)

Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne

Mots-clés

Enfant orphelin -- Dans la littérature pour la jeunesse

"Dear reader,You seem to have picked up the wrong research paper. This dissertation analyses the soultearing whereabouts of three orphaned children, satirically depicted in the voice of a tortured mind bearing the names of Lemony Snicket or Daniel Handler, as suits your taste. From the very first page of this work, you will encounter convoluted theories on what the wretched narrator decided to do with notions such as “innocence”, “death”, “morality”, “survival”, “adult”, “child”, or even “fiction”. I can think of no single reason why anyone would want to endure such a troublesome task as reading these perplexing sheets of paper. The Baudelaire orphans would never tolerate their story being investigated in order to determine its negative and disenchanted aspects. Lemony Snicket himself would violently sob if he were to find this dissertation on his desk. It was my solemn duty to write down the digressions of my mind on these subject, but you may prefer some other enjoyable activity and put this work back where you found it.ILONA COMPOINT"