the themes of the short story A Dog's Tale

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B.S English (6th)
NUML Islamabad Pakistan

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4. The themes of the short story “A dog’s tale”
) The misuse of language
) The cruelty of the scientific world.
.) The slavery.
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 The misuse of language means that
nowadays a person who uses big words in
his conversation, is consider as a wise
person.
As in this story the Aileen’s mother Collie
learnt some words from the daily life of
humans. She goes to the gathering of the
neighboring dogs and uses that words as a
show off.

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“ But, indeed, it was not real education; it
was only show: she got the words by
listening in the dining-room and drawing-
room when there was company, and by
going with the children to Sunday-school
and listening there; and whenever she
heard a large word she said it over to
herself many times, and so was able to
keep it until there was a dogmatic
gathering in the neighborhood, then she
would get it off, and surprise and distress
them all, from pocket-pup to mastiff, which
rewarded her for all her trouble.”

7.  The scientific world is cruel and
emotionless. It placing ethics and equity
aside for the sake of progress. They
consider logic and reason is more
important then compassions and emotions
of others.
In this story the master of the Aileen(dog)
is a scientist named Gray. He wants to do
an experiment that whether a little injury in
the brain would causes blindness or not.
For this experiment he takes the Puppy of
Aileen.
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8. “ They discussed and experimented, and
then suddenly the puppy shrieked, and
they set him on the floor, and he went
staggering around, with his head all bloody,
and the master clapped his hands and
shouted:
“There, I’ve won—confess it! He’s a blind
as a bat!”
And they all said:
“It’s so—you’ve proved your theory, and
suffering humanity owes you a great debt
from henceforth, ”
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 The third theme of this story is the
slavery. This story shows the miseries of the
poor creatures especially the miseries of
animals that puppet in the hands of man.
As in this story the dog named Aileen and
her puppy are puppet in the hands of Gray.
Even Mr. Gray considerers himself the deity
god of Aileen.

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“Soon the master stopped discussing a
moment, and rang in the footman, and
said, “Bury it in the far corner of the
garden,” and then went on with the
discussion,”

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The end