Once again, Seuss is drawing on a range of political ideas floating about in his time. But they are far from lazy and are in fact super-competitive.
Well, the Things are identical for all practical purposes and their aims and goals are clearly the same-to wreck stuff. yikes) seem to both embody and challenge the McCarthy stereotype by injecting it with anarchism. The Things (who, by the way, Louis Menard calls " personified genitalia". Hmmm, things that look and act the same? Or should we say Things that look and act the same? Sounds familiar.
McCarthyists believed this system would destroy individualism and competition, creating a society of lazies who all looked and acted the same. To majorly oversimplify, one basic tenet of Communism is that all members of a community collectively own the resources in that community. These blue-haired every-teacher's-nightmares are all decked out in red. You can imagine how bummed these guys must be every time they are captured and returned to the big, red FUN-IN-A-BOX.Īre the Things crazy on the outside only because of how trapped they are on the inside? If so, we can probably read a bit more into that-if you suppress a society, it will only lead to total mayhem once the suppression inevitably ends. They clean no messes and respect no authority. They are pure mayhem with no sense of boundaries, law, or consequences. Isn't there a little Thing One and Thing Two inside us all? These crazy guys represent all that restless energy we have to suppress so we don't get in trouble.
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