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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 youth . . . The. 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 to colour and. sizeWhen she opened
them wide People all turned aside And started awayin. surprise.There
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