Industry's Natural Growth Will Destroy Nature
During the Victorian era, Hopkins as well as other nineteenth-century writers faced hardship because the overall stigma of the time period was "the industrial man not only failed to respond to the form of nature," but also is "dedicated to their annihilation." (Bump 429) Lewis Carroll's "The Garden of Live Flowers" holds the same sense of anguish seen throughout the industrial society. Whilst speaking to the flowers, Alice asks," Aren't [the flowers] sometimes frightened at being planted out here" with absolutely "nobody to take care of [the flowers]."[1] With no care keeper, the plants would most likely die. This notion implies that plants and nature is slowly becoming domesticated, existing in a industrialized and suburban society.
Domestication of Nature
Works Cited
1. Lewis Carroll, The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition, (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 2000), 158.
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