Analysis of 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' by Lemony Snicket: Allusions, Rhetoric, and I, Slides of Sociology

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One: “The Bad Beginning”

Two: “The Reptile Room”

Four: “The Miserable Mill”

Five: “The Austere Academy”

Seven: “The Vile Village”

Nine: “The Carnivorous

Carnival”

Eleven: “The Grim Grotto”

Twelve: “The Penultimate

Peril”

OVERVIEW: ALLUSIONS

• History: Isadora Duncan, Ghengis

Kahn, Nero

• Literature: Baudelaire, Dante, Elliot,

Guest, Orwell, Melville, Nabokov, Poe,

Salinger

• Mythology: Medusa

OVERVIEW: RHETORICAL DEVICES

Acronyming: VFD: Verbal Fridge Dialogue, Village of Fowl Devotees,

Alliteration: Briny Beach, Caligary Carnival, Curdled Cave, Daedalus Dock

Count Olaf’s Disguises: Al Funcoot, Staphano, Captain Sham, Foreman Flacutono, Coach Genghis, Gunther, Detective Dupin, Mattathias, Surgeon Flacutono

Ersatz: Elevator, Rope, Guadrian, Imaginings

Gothic and Death References: Grim River, Hotel Denouement, Memento Mori, Mortmain Mountains, Salmonella Cafe

Puns: Operating Theatres, Stiletto Heels

OVERVIEW BAUDELAIRE CHARACTERIZATIONS:

Kaus’s Research: grammar books, gum and log scraper, Village of Fowl Devotees Rules, Madam Lulu’s library, V.F.D. Library

Sunny’s Bites: Edgar Poe’s shoes, hoked-handed man’s fake arms, Count Olaf’s wooden leg, Dr. Orwell’s sword, staples, wall of the elevator, eye of the Fowl Fountain, file cabinets, ivy on the roller coaster, Judge Strauss’s hand, canned food, kitchen table

Violet’s Inventions: Grappling Hook, lock pick noise making device, noisy shoes, rope, paperclip and ribbon keychain, ice shoes, drag chute

Snow Scout Alphabet Pledge

Snow Scouts are accomodating, basic, calm, darling, emblematic, frisky, grinning, human, innocent, jumping, kept, limited, meek, nap-loving, official, pretty, quarantined, recent, scheduled, tidy, understandable, victorious, wholesome, xylophone, young, and zippered—every morning, every afternoon, every night, and all day long!*

*Take a big breath and make a long, airy sound, as if imitating the wind.

RECYCLING, INTERTEXTUALITY

AND SMART ALLUSIONS 1

• Dr. Georgina Orwell
• Medusoid Mycelium Mushrooms
• Esmé & Jerome Squalor’s Penthouse at 667 Dark Avenue
• J. D. Salinger’s Short Story: “To Esmé with Love and Squalor”
• Violet’s Name from T. S. Eliot’s “The Violet Hours”
• The Austere Academy = Prufrock Preparatory School
• Vice Principal Nero
• Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire = Claus and Sunny Von Bulow = Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)

RECYCLING, INTERTEXTUALITY

AND SMART ALLUSIONS 2

• Isadora and Duncan Quagmire = Isadora Duncan

• The Queequeg Submarine Herman Melville Team and

the Ahab Memorial Hospital

• vs. The Edgar A. Guest Team
• The Hostile Hospital = The Heimlich Hospital
• Patients include: Emma Bovary, Clarissa Dalloway,

Orlando, and Sappho

• Edgar Allan Poe: Mr. Poe, The Nevermore Tree, and

the Murder of Crows