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The purpose of this paper is to observe otherness of Mary and India in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. Burnett shows that Mary and Colin, the leading characters in this text, overcome their mental and physical problems by power of nature. Through the nurturing of the secret garden which has been cast away for more than 10 years, they find out potential power for healing beneath the earth and their minds. Literature written for children has the hidden desire to make children obedient. One of the main themes in children's literature is about description and construction of the familiar things to both children and adults. But the representation of familiarity cannot avoid building division between “us” and “other,” as Colin/England and Mary/India in this text. India where Mary was born and raised is considered as uncivilized of cursed people. India becomes a marginalized background of England. Indians including Mary’s Ajah and servants are undervalued and the weather in India is defined as intolerable. Indians are just objects to be taught and revised. Mary, too, becomes objects to be educated. Mary is unattractive, rude and violent in India because she has been neglected by her parents. To be feminine and English, she has to learn rules and manners which are different from those in India. Growing up in England means learning how to obey and accept hierarchical order. In the end of the text, India, Mary and Dickon disappear like shadows laying down behind the main stream of story structure and history. Only Colin gets his health and power as a successful heir in Misselthwaite.

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• 이수진 [ Sujin Lee | Chonnam National University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820