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to claim theinsurance money and take a nice little. holiday in Majorca.
No youcan't come with me. You're to stay at home and. look after the
littlesausage.And off she goes leaving Mr Punch and the. sausages to
the mercy of abig green crocodile with toothfilled gaping jaws.. Her
triumph is thatshe has called Mr. Punch's bluff. Rather than waiting to.
be knockedout of his way Judy leaves him with the consequences of
his. mistakesand removes herself to a more fulfilling situation. She
does. theseparating off. This gives Judy an equal status to Punch in the.
dramaalthough he still remains at the centre of the story and fulfills.
hisusual trickster role with his other adversities.Adult enthusiasts can.
recognize him as the head of one of thosedysfunctional families of
Drama. that span from Oedipus and Macbeth onthe tragic side to the
Addams Family and. The Simpsons on the frivolousside. He and other
little red nosed rogues like. him have been keptalive down the centuries
because his irrepressible. antics and hisflying in the face of convention
have amused generations of. ordinarypeople particularly those with no
power of their own.Step warily. around the fair Welsh seaside town of
Aberystwyth thisweekend for everywhere. you look will be a strange
beaknosed figureclad in red with pointytoed. shoes and a manic gleam
in his immobileeyes. No it's not Beelzebub it's. Punch. The second
internationalfestival of Punch and Judy is in town. Oh no. it isn't. Oh
yes it isetc. There was an Old Man with a nose Who said. If you choose
to suppose That my nose is too long You are certainly. wrong That
remarkable man with a nose.A Jungian Consideration of Edward.
Lear's Nonsense Verse Lear was inmany ways an example of what
Jungian. psychologist MarieLouise vonFranz calls the puer aeternusan
archetype she. analyzes in her book ofthe same name. The term comes
from Ovid's. Metamorphoses and thererefers to the childgod of the
Eleusinian mysteries.. In later timesvon Franz writes the childgod was
identified with. Dionysus and the god Eros. He is the divine youth who
is born in the. night in this typical mothercult mystery of Eleusis and
who is a. redeemer. He is a god of life death and resurrectionthe god of
divine. but we also use it to indicate a certain type of young man who
has an. outstanding mother complex . . . . () Wandering moreover is one
of the. most important traits of the Trickster archetype (Radin ) which
as. we shall see Lear's nonsense exemplifies.There was an Old Man of
Peru Who. never knew what he should do So hetore off his hair And
behaved like a bear. That intrinsic Old Man ofPeru.There was a Young
Lady whose eyes Were unique as. colour and sizeWhen she opened
them wide People all turned aside And. started awayin surprise.There
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