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The objective of this essay is to compare the theme of dead babies in the writing of two British writers. Mary Mann, the writer of Victorian epoch, describes the social and family relationships using the attitude to death-born baby. Irvine Welsh, the contemporary Scottish novelist, also uses the theme of baby’s death to depict the relationship in his novel “Trainspotting”.
The theme of dead baby
In the short story “Little brother” the dead newborn baby is the center of the novel. The discussion of its death reveals the attitude of the society to the parents of many children, the relationship between husband and wife, and the shortage of love in such a big family. The children game with the little corpse depicts the children’s naivety, which borders to cruelty. No one cries in this story – probably, the mother does, but the reader doesn’t know about it. Thus, the family of the Hodds and their surroundings thinks about the new baby as about the new mouth to feed and they are even glad because of its death.
The novel “Trainspotting” consists of a set of short stories, and the death of the baby depicted in the diction one, the chapter “It Goes without Saying”. The baby was dead because of the neglect, though the reason was cop death. Unlike the characters of Mann’s story, the characters of Welsh are the drug-addicts and the scum of society. After the short cry the characters returns to their life of drug-addicts< and the junk is on the first place fro them.
The death of little baby is a powerful literary way to outline the indifference of the society to this tragedy.

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References
Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting: A Reader’s Guide, by Robert A. Morace. Published by Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001. ISBN 082645237X.
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (Oxford Books of Prose) by A.S. Byatt. First published in 1998, reissued in 2009. Oxford Books of Prose. ISBN 9780192803764