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Comparative Critical Studies 2, 3, pp. 311â22 © BCLA 2005 CHAPTER TWO How close allied are humans and animals? What are the possibilities of interpretation between them? Can human language encompass animal experience? Can animals inform our understanding of their natures and our own? The troubles and the jokes generated from the primary question of kinship between humans and animals have stimulated writers across the centuries. Often in literature animals have stood in for humans: in fables, foxes, geese, and donkeys parade their supposedly human traits: wiliness for the fox, panic for the goose, obstinacy for the donkey (redeemed sometimes in Christian re-workings as lowliness). The interest is certainly not in âthe whole animalâ but in the animal as pointer to or satire on human behaviour. Behind such images is the assumption that, when allâs said, the human is other than animal, favoured in peculiar ways. In a surprising sonnet, John Donne in the 1620âs challenges the animals for their willingness to be subject to man and challenges too the ordering of their subjection: Why are we by all creatures waited on? Why do the prodigal elements supply Life and food for me, being more pure than I,
Comparative Critical Studies – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Oct 1, 2005
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