Erewhon Revisited · Concept
Hypocrisy and Deception
The epigraph condemns those who say one thing and hide another, a theme echoed throughout as characters like Hanky and Panky manipulate truth for personal gain, while Higgs himself navigates a web of lies and half-truths.
The epigraph condemns those who say one thing and hide another, a theme echoed throughout as characters like Hanky and Panky manipulate truth for personal gain, while Higgs himself navigates a web of lies and half-truths.
The epigraph directly condemns duplicity, setting a critical tone for the narrative's exploration of hidden motives and false appearances.
My father deceives the professors about the quails and his identity, while the professors themselves are willing to bend rules for personal gain.
Both professors engage in self-serving deception, with Panky being a 'living lie' and Hanky using occasional frankness to disarm others.
Both the Bridgeford professors and the Sunch'ston people dare not speak their true beliefs, hiding skepticism behind public conformity.
Characters
Chapters
- Epigraph
- III: My Father While Camping Is Accosted by Professors Hanky and Panky
- My Father Overhears More of Hanky and Panky’s Conversation
- V: My Father Meets a Son, of Whose Existence He Was Ignorant; and Strikes a Bargain with Him
- VI: Further Conversation Between Father and Son—The Professors’ Hoard
- Signs of the New Order of Things Catch My Father’s Eye on Every Side
- VIII: Yram, Now Mayoress, Gives a Dinner-Party, in the Course of Which She Is Disquieted by What She Learns from Professor Hanky: She Sends for Her Son George and Questions Him
- Interview Between Yram and Her Son
