Name

Saima Hussain
Roll Number 06
Subject Prose
Topic Dream children by Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb
He was born in 10 Feb 1775-27Dec 1834
He never married for the sake of his
sister as she was insane. She killed their
own mother with a knife. His Personal
life abounds in sorrows by the death of
his brother and madness of his sister.
Dream children
Dream children is a reverie 1822 and
narrative essay In which the author
narrates the story of h dream that he
had .In this dream he came a across his
dream Children diminished at the end of
his dream
Pain and guilt
This essay exhibits the subject of pain
and guilt of getting deprived of the
people whom we loved from the core of
our heart characters
Alice
The little girl in lams dream
John
Little boy in lambs dream
John lamb
Appeared as children Uncle John
represent lambs real brother John lamb.
Alice wife
The representative of Ann the lady of
who lamb proposed wanted to marry in
his real life. However Ann rejected lamb
proposed.
Great grandmother field
Religious and good lady. Lived in a great
house aas its house keeper looking after
the house as nicely as she called
Children dream
Children love to listen stories about their
elders .Lambs children also wanted to
hear the childhood stories as their
parents. He was narrating them about
their grandmother field ,who lived in a
mansion in Norfolk
It was a hundred time bigger then the
house they live in present. The children
had heard about the tragic incidents that
had happened at that house Lamb tells
to his imagery children that
grandmother field had been given
charge of the house as the owner wants
to live in a more stylish mansion.
He tells that she was religious and
upright lady also respected by everyone.
She took care of the house every
carefully as her own. When the old
ornaments of house were shifted and set
up in the owners new house, Lamb
mentioned that the old ornaments could
not fit in property there John smiled by
realizing that is was a foolish act. She
was a best dancer till a fatal disease
Called cancer forced her to shop.
She was kind hearted to her grand
children. Children’s Uncle John lamb was
liked particularly by grandmother. He
was most handsome and energetic.
Reality
This essay reaches it choirman the
readers became owner of realty that the
children listening to lambs stories are
mothering but a figment of his
imagination and a dream of a sleeping
man.
“We are not of Alice ,nor of thee, nor are
we children at all”
The children of Alice called the brutrm
father. We are nothing less then nothing
& dreams.
Analysis
Dream children is a formally unique
essay. Dream children record the
pathetic joys in the Author’s domestic
life. The reaction & response of the
children in the essay reflect the effect of
story on their mind and turns the essay
dramatic.
There is also a shift in the tone of essay
at various points. The shift in the tone
from humorous to tragic towards the
end of essay ,a twist in the essay come
when all the events in the story turn out
to be a dream
Theme
The theme of Lambs essay is regret ,loss,
loneliness, regret for unfulfilled joy ,
unfulfilled love , lost hope ,lost
opportunity & lost of joys
The theme of loneliness appeared at the
end of essay Dream children , when
reader gets informed that Lamb had no
wife no children and all Lamb told was
nothing just a dream children by Charles
Lamb highlight pain & regret of losing
loved ones in the life persuading the
essayist to indulge in a dream world
fantasy in order to reflect upon the
sweet memories of the days gone by.
Enriched with pathos the essay describe
the importance of children & dear ones
in life of individual without the whom
world appear to be dark alley suffocating
the individual at Every turn