7. Conclusion

We have understood poison as a literary tool to represent several things: symbolically, comically, and fatally. Each post shows a varying use of poison, interlinked through its purpose of quite simply changing the body. As seen with Alice’s body disfigurement in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland when eating and drinking the objects left behind; or Ron’s horrific ordeal in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

Placing poison within food is a symbol itself: food is an object on which we survive, therefore it becomes an invasion of not just the trust we place in our food, but our safety. Each text presents the unaware victim, the risk and vulnerability of eating or drinking something that is meant to be harmless, and each case explores the consequences. The argument of this blog shows poison as not only a murder weapon, but a symbolism of constraint, a need for the murderer to be heard or seen; each text gives that to the murderer without realising. 

Works Cited 

Caroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London, Macmillan. 2015. Print.

Rowling, J K. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Arthur A Levine Books, New York. 2005. Web. <http://publish.uwo.ca/~hamendt/WD%20final%20Project/litertaure/Half%20Blood%20Prince.pdf> Accessed March 2017.