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"Dover Bitch": Mockery Of Victorian Values In "Dover Beach"
Hecht's parody "Dover Bitch" is a mockery of Victorian values shown in "Dover
Beach", as well as those of his own period. Hecht candidly exaggerates the
speech, ideas and symbols in "Dover Beach.".
The first evidence of Hecht's mockery is of speech at the beginning when he
writes " There stood Matthew Arnold and his girl......All over, etc., etc.". He
take the soft calming words of Arnold and gives them a harsh New Jersey accent.
His representation of an educated woman sets the reader up to think that the
woman will not sit quietly and be told what to do by her husband. ....
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