The book portrays several lovely animal images: timid but adventurous mole, hospitable and romantic mouse, chivalrous and leading old badger, toad who likes to brag, show off and pursue fashion, and simple and honest otter-they live by the river or in the big forest, sharing weal and woe.
The Wind in the Willows is a fairy tale written by British writer kenneth grahame. In The Wind in the Willows, Graham projected the universal psychological tendency of human beings through small animals such as moles, mice and toads, and integrated the discourse of children's literature with that of adult literature through fairy tale art..
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Creation background
As for the specific reasons for the creation of The Wind in the Willows, it is generally believed that it began with Graham's experience of telling stories to his son at the bedside at night, especially the story about toad's adventure.
1907 In May, my son alastair went on vacation with the governess as planned. But he didn't want to leave, because he wanted to continue listening to his father's story, so Graham promised to continue telling his son by writing. He didn't break his promise. He wrote a story for several months on time and sent it to his son, who read it to the female teacher. These stories written in letters naturally become a part of Wind in the Willows.
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The wind in the willows, a children's novel, takes animals as the narrative subject, observes and feels nature and human society from the perspective of animals, subverting the traditional narrative that animals are objectified.
In the novel, animals have replaced human beings as the aesthetic subject of nature. Through the perspective of these animals, readers can directly experience the attachment of animals to nature and their sense of belonging in nature, and feel the emotional affinity between people and other animals, thus tracing the homology between people and animals.
This urges people to reduce their sense of superiority towards animals, re-examine the survival significance and life value of animals, reflect on the position of anthropocentrism, rethink the distinction between people and other animals in traditional thinking, rebuild their moral conscience towards other creatures, and expand the object of ethics from people themselves to other animals and even the whole organism.
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