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godlessondheimite

fluffmugger

#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there weren’t any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature it’s pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.

pennie-dreadful

“What I assume my teachers were trying to teach me”

doctorbluesmanreturns

Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because he’s black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period there’s very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isn’t like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that we’re all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.

mikkeneko

I’m really kind of alarmed at the rise in the past few years of the “and we do condemn! wholeheartedly!” discourse around historical figures. it seems like people have somehow boomeranged between “morals were different in the past, therefore nobody in the past can ever be held accountable for ANY wrongs” to “morals are universal and timeless, and anything done wrong by today’s standards in the past is ABSOLUTELY unforgiveable” so completely, because social media 2.0 is profoundly allergic to nuance

please try this on for size:

there have always been, in past times as today, a range of people in every society, some of whom were even then fighting for a more just and compassionate accord with their fellow man and some of whom let their greeds and hatreds rule them to the worst allowable excesses. the goal of classics and history education is to teach you enough context to discern between the two, not only in the past but in the present

three--rings

My mind just boggles at the “There’s Racism In That Book” argument. Yes, there is racism in that book, because that book is ABOUT RACISM. The message is that it is BAD.

My high school English teacher, who was a viciously brilliant woman, used to say that when people banned Huck Finn they said it was about the language, but it was really the message they were trying to ban, the subversive deconstruction of (religious) authority and white supremacy.

las-lus

…………the take on Great Gatsby is driving me INSANE. Gatsby… very much dies. Like. He gets punished by all of his actions and gets himself killed for them. That’s very much the point of the book? Its about how the 20′s was an era when people tried to pretend eveything was fine and great while hiding ghosts in their closets. Gatsby represents everything wrong with 1920′s america. How can you read The Great Gatsby and think its about how stalking is ok? Like, I’m sorry if you are a published author who lacks the reading comprehention to undestand of a book we all read in high school.

prismatic-bell

Also?

The whole point in all the N-words in Huck Finn is that it’s the “nice” people saying it. The common, polite word of the time would have been “Negro.” The condescending-but-not-outright-nasty one would have been “colored” as an adjective; for example, “the Widow’s colored man, Jim.” The N-word wasn’t as awful then as it is now, but it was, 100%, seen as rude, low-class, and disreputable. An actual Person Of Good Character ™ wouldn’t use it.

Huck is parroting the same language he’s heard all his life from the “nice,” “respectable” people around him. They claim to be so much “better” than those around them….but in the end they talk just like his reprehensible father, and the “ignorant” Huck is the one to recognize the cruelty inherent in keeping Jim a slave and in splitting up his family.

Like if your teachers did not explain to you that this book is an absolutely masterful satire, they failed you. Period.

alwida10

Reading comprehension and the ability to understand the message a book tries to teach needs a) the ability to recognize problematic behavior and b) to what this leads.

The problem with a) is that many people, especially those of the younger generations, only recognize problematic behavior if it contains certain well-known triggers (slurs, stalking behavior). They have been sensitized for those triggers by social media, mostly in fear to get ‚called out‘ themselves. They do not reflect about the complexity of the situation with all the relationships and logical consequences of actions. They don’t question displayed behavior outside their known triggers. So if a trigger appears in a work they react the very same way they would on social media - by calling out as loud as they can. They don’t realize the current ban of those behaviors is the consequence of the education we got by those very books (and people who called for the behavior to end).

But by only reacting to those well-known triggers they fail to recognize new problems. They fail to think further than our current state.

The problem with b) is that they don’t understand how a book (or film) portraits punishment. More and more i see the demand for ‚not writing about x’. ‚Don’t write about incest!‘, ‚don’t write racism’, etc.. instead of fighting against -let’s say racism - they fight against the tool to educate about the racism, without realizing that they are in fact supporting racism. In the end, books are a fictional space to explore the consequences without real people getting hurt. That is the heart piece of a tragedy - it is supposed to show the catastrophe so we don’t have to re-enact it in real life.

But they don’t wish to read about suffering. They wish to remain in their Wanda-Vision like bubble of a better alternate reality, so they don’t have to face the horror of the real world. Which will - consequentially- prevent us from bettering the real world and thereby support those horrors.

And that is the second problem with b). A lot of modern media fails to show consequences. The hero destroys thousands of lifes and all we get to see is ‚the day was saved’! The hero lies and belittles and all we get to see is the ‚power of friendship‘.

The problem is that we learn from those books and films just as much as we do from the classical works. And those who are unable to a) recognize problematic behavior beyond known triggers and b) realize how and if the medium is rewarding this behavior will still learn from it. Just subconsciously.

And that’s how you end up with a mob storming the capitol wearing captain America shirts.

iamanartichoke

So YA authors on twitter are cancelling classic literature now, got it.

sailorrdee

Pressured into Addiction

Craig finds out what, or who, makes Tweek drink coffee

Part one

emilyartstudio-s

Indecisive height dump

kalatl-art

Aaah I’ve been so busy with school lately, and I haven’t had the time to update or make new content ;A; , anyway here’s my contribution for @thebookoflovezine, Enjoy!

prokopetz

We give Victor Hugo a hard time about his tangents, but I don’t think J R R Tolkien gets enough recognition for cold opening The Lord of the Rings – book one, page one – with a 7500-word essay on the history and politics of the Shire, complete with APA-formatted citations of the story’s own appendices, before introducing a single named character.

thatsbelievable

stuffedgrapeleaves

i can’t believe we’re all young professionals and academics and we’re still logging on to tumblr.com every single day to clown on ourselves. who let this happen

asingularcanadian

Look man this is the only place left im allowed to say clown shit without it impacting my career, just lemme have this

permaculturefarmingdesigns-deac

sputternutter-deactivated202010

I was very okay and even proud of the English for this right up until "crinkle crankle"

captainboringposts

I love that they saved that until the very last moment.

It's like being hugged and then immediately punched in the face after.

missdavonne

In case something goes wrong…

spnsmile

jaredandjensen

15x14 - Last Holiday

cosmicwavelength

Angel of the Lord

Continuar lendo

rosewhipped22

Since I'm already bummed Cas isn't in tonight's episode here are some things I do want:

Some acknowledgment that Cas is not there and a weird excuse for it like he's annulling one of his many marriages or addressing his riverboat gambling addiction

For Dean to carve an angel into his pumpkin because his first glimpse of Cas was pretty high up on his list of scary things that nearly made him piss his pants

It doesn't really look like an angel though since Dean's more skilled with a blade when it comes to fighting. He just says it's a bat

For Dean Sam and Jack to have a good time

For Jack to top the Christmas tree with a picture of him and Cas

For the three of them to make Valentine's. Jack makes one for his mom, Sam makes one for Eileen, and Dean works very hard on his but covers it up so they can't see it who it's for

Next episode we see Cas in the background looking at it