![]() ![]() ![]() ‘A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, / Along the briny beach.’ Poe that their “beloved parents have perished in a terrible fire.” The name of their location is taken from Lewis Carroll’s poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter”: “‘O Oysters, come and walk with us!’ / The Walrus did beseech. The Bad Beginning begins (badly) with the Baudelaire children spending a gloomy day at Briny Beach before learning from Mr. ![]() At the start, we’re just left with the feeling that Beatrice is the one who got away, thanks to his tongue-in-cheek dedications like “dearest, darling, dead.” Briny Beach is a Nod to Lewis Carroll. For Snicket, Beatrice’s identity is gradually hinted at as the book series progresses, eventually resulting in a huge revelation. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because it is - remember a certain conscience-obsessed insect from Disney’s Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket? Beatrice References Dante.Įach of the 13 books is dedicated by Snicket to the mysterious Beatrice, a reference to Italian poet Dante’s muse who appears in both The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova, portrayed as the woman the author could never have. ![]() Snicket, acting in the role of a depressed investigator with more ties to the Baudelaire orphans than he’s letting on, is one of the series’s most important if detached characters. Brett Helquist Book One: The Bad Beginning Lemony Snicket is a reference to Pinocchio. ![]()
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