Social Rebellion In Browning's 'Fifine At The Fair'

Social Rebellion In Browning’s Fifine at the Fair, Surtees’s Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour, and Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream all have different concepts of social rebellion. Social rebellion occurs through opposition between people and authority. In these works you can find a few of examples of social rebellion. Intellectuals use literature to work through social issues. In Fifine at the Fair, a social rebellion can be seen when the man explores the fair. The time this poem was written was at a time when the affluent did not mingle with troupes at the fair. The troupes were thought to be on the low end of society. When the man decides to go check out the fair and to go against the social norm and even his dead wife he involved in social rebellion. He becomes interested in the fair and a girl called Fifine. He then goes between his interest of her and his deceased wife Elvire. His thoughts about Fifine’s life are as follows: “Well, then, thus much confessed, what wonder if there steal unchallenged to my heart the force of one appeal she makes, and justice stamp the sole claim she …show more content…
Specifically they use their works to convey a certain message to their audience. Shakespeare used his literature to convey topics that people in his time could not express unless they were in the theatre. The theatre was the only way to entertain and deliver messages to the people like technology does for today’s people. Surtees used his literature to pass on information and entertain through his own interests in fox hunting, his pack of hounds, the laws involving horses, and about the time he lived in. Browning used his literature to work through social issues by using dramatic monologue verse, which allowed him to look inside the minds of his characters and places that were struggling in particular circumstances. For instance, the man in Fifine at the Fair is wrongly interested in a women who is fair below his