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Bad Beginning
The Good Beginning in the Bad Beginning
Lemony Snicket's monumentally successful An Unfortunate Series of Events is a set of books that follow the misadventures of the Baudelaire children. The series initiates with 1999's The Bad Beginning, which presents the series' primary heroes, villains and supporting characters. Likewise, it sets in motion one of the primary conflicts that will drive the story collection.
The first installment climaxes with Olaf's elaborately staged the Marvelous Marriage play as a way to gain access to the children's inheritance. In addition to serving as the peak of action in the book in question, this would ultimately establish a primary conflict to be explored through the larger world of Snicket's series.
This promotes several lessons, most of which are conveyed through the personalities of the Baudelaire children. That...
The author, from the warning on the back cover and throughout the subsequent books in the series, makes an almost farcical admission of the bleak circumstances and sad misfortunes facing the children. Yet at every turn, they seem almost destined to make the darkest implications into something positive.
From the outset, Snicket describes the children as being almost inherently capable of making the most out of a bad situation. For example, as Snicket describes the children on…
Works Cited:
Snicket, L. (2012). A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning. Harper Collins.
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