{"id":1187,"date":"2018-10-02T13:52:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2018-10-02T13:52:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:52:16","slug":"losing-control-in-victorian-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2018\/10\/02\/losing-control-in-victorian-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing Control in Victorian Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>A Terribly Strange Bed <\/em>by Wilkie Collins, I noticed the passages on pages 32-35 when Mr. Faulkner describes his experience with drinking.\u00a0 He uses words like \u201cdrinking liquid fire\u201d, \u201cflame\u201d, \u201cmad state of exhilaration\u201d, \u201cviolent singing\u201d, and \u201cmy body trembled\u201d.\u00a0 These are all really dramatic, intense words to describe his current state.\u00a0 All of these descriptions help further tie into the first couple paragraphs on page 32 when most of the dialogue ends in exclamation points.\u00a0\u00a0 These small details demonstrate the crazy haze of events that are happening and will continue to happen to the narrator throughout the rest of the story, especially in regard to the bed.\u00a0 The narrator says, \u201cNo excess in wine had ever had this effect on me before in my life\u201d.\u00a0 This shows that Mr. Faulkner has never lost control like this before.\u00a0 The overarching idea that struck me after reading this passage was that Victorians must be obsessed with the idea of losing control.\u00a0 The narrator in this story quickly loses control of himself after he drinks, and Lady Audley loses control of herself once her secrets are revealed at the end of <em>Lady Audley\u2019s Secret<\/em>.\u00a0 This leads me to believe that the people in this time must be concerned with how easy it is to lose control of oneself.\u00a0 Collins associates this behavior with violence and chaos, by saying things like the words listed above.\u00a0 This might be a kind of warning, reminding people that although losing control of oneself may seem enticing and alluring like a flame or fire, it is also dangerous and harmful to your life, and potentially your fortune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins, I noticed the passages on pages 32-35 when Mr. Faulkner describes his experience with drinking.\u00a0 He uses words like \u201cdrinking liquid fire\u201d, \u201cflame\u201d, \u201cmad state of exhilaration\u201d, \u201cviolent singing\u201d, and \u201cmy body trembled\u201d.\u00a0 These are all really dramatic, intense words to describe his current state.\u00a0 All of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2018\/10\/02\/losing-control-in-victorian-literature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Losing Control in Victorian Literature<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}