{"id":444,"date":"2022-03-03T01:56:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T01:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/?p=444"},"modified":"2022-03-03T01:56:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T01:56:02","slug":"blog-post-6-wild-literature-and-the-wild-in-literature-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/03\/03\/blog-post-6-wild-literature-and-the-wild-in-literature-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 6: “Wild” Literature and “the Wild” in Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Hemingway’s “The Good Lion” and <\/em>Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are”, <\/em>the authors both use the word “wild” to expose the tension between civilized and uncivilized existences. In both stories, the civilized world is conveyed as tamed, domestic, good, and normal; while the uncivilized world is revealed as untamed, wild, evil, and abnormal. However, the protagonist in “Where the Wild Things Are” <\/em>is also considered wild, while the protagonist in “The Good Lion” <\/em>is considered the complete opposite of wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In “Where the Wild Things Are”, <\/em>the author uses the word “wild” all throughout the novel as a way to characterize the animals in the forest Max visits at night. When Max’s imagination took him where the wild creatures lived, “they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws” (pg. 21). The repetition of the word terrible symbolizes the untamed and vicious nature of these wild things. Even though the wild creatures warm up to Max and start loving him by the end of the story, he is still referring to them as wild because they are coming from his wild imagination after his mom classified him as a wild thing when he was misbehaving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\u00a0“The Good Lion”,\u00a0<\/em>the author uses the theme of wildness to describe the characters in his story in a very similar way. Wildness is perceived through the wicked lions as they, “roar with laughter and eat another Hindu trader and their wives would drink his blood. They only stopped to growl with laughter or to roar with laughter at the good lion and to snarl at his wings. They were very bad and wicked lions indeed” (pg. 388). The gruesome and descriptive imagery in this passage shows the reader the true extent of the wildness and savagery of these lions. This is also contrasted in the story through the good lion and his seemingly perfect morals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katsiaryna Aliashkevich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Hemingway’s “The Good Lion” and Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are”, the authors both use the word “wild” to expose the tension between civilized and uncivilized existences. In both stories, the civilized world is conveyed as tamed, domestic, good, and normal; … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":408,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}