DREAM COME TRUE

DO I wake or sleep? wonders John Keats in his famous and lovely mystical poem, Ode to a Nightingale. The Romantics made extensive use of the dream, but the dream as a theme has always been popular in literature.

In Homer's Iliad dreams can be deceptive and untrue, and have implications for the development of the plot. In the Victorian era, who can forget Catherine's frightening and cryptic dreams in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights? Or Lockwood's sequence of three dreams during his first night at the Heights? I think the secret to the novel is there inside the dreams. 

Jane Eyre also has symbolic and meaningful dreams, while Pip, protagonist of Dickens's Great Expectations, suffers and is tortured even in his dreams. The same goes for Lucy Snowe, from Charlotte Bronte's Villette.

Enough though with pain in dreams! Or, rather, enough with pleasureless pain. Anastasia has an amazing dream with Christian and a riding crop in Fifty Shades! This is a dream I would like to have too.

I wish you a great start to the new week. Keep calm and dream on! xxx