Mockery of Victorian Values in Hechts Parody, Dover Beach :: Dover Beach

Hechts parody Dover Bitch is a chaff of square-toed values shown in DoverBeach, as sanitary as those of his own period. Hecht candidly exaggerates thespeech, motifs and symbols in Dover Beach.. The first evince of Hechts mockery is of  speech at the beginning when hewrites There stood Matthew Arnold and his girl......All over, and so on, etc.. Hetake the soft calming words of Arnold and gives them a rasping New Jersey accent.His representation of  an educated woman sets the reader up to think that thewoman will not sit quietly and be told what to do by her husband. But when shesaid one or devil unprintable things he  took away her right to speak. Thusplunging  her  back to Arnolds tight-laced classification that women should sitquietly and ingest her husbands opinions. This might also correspond thefeministic movements of the early sixties. Hechts view might have been thatwomen could have equality to men, besides its not important enough to let the m talkabout it. His presentation of faithfulness in the womens unfaithfulness is also areaction to the Victorian idea that the wife should be there for her husband. Itcould also be a scary reality in Hechts mind that times were changing and womenwouuld not be at every beaconing call of their husband.  Hecht reinforces hisIdeas of change by winning Arnolds ...the cliffs of England stand, glimmeringand vast and transforms the Victorian idea of women into ...cliffs of Englandcrumbling away behind them,. This supports the idea that Hecht is aware of thechanges that are happening and he is envious of the way things use to be.