#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.
“What I assume my teachers were trying to teach me”
via @chidorinnnnn
okay, i can’t talk about huck finn and not include ursula k. le guin’s wonderful analysis:
from “unquestioned assumptions,” an essay in the wave in the mind
If these authors read those classics and came away with those “woke” opinions, the only thing it tells me is that they slept through English Lit and didn’t do their homework. I mean, I could say “All I learned from ‘The Hunger Games’ is that it’s 100% okay for children to fight to the death if it’s a longstanding and accepted societal practice.” But then I’d get a lot of hate in my inbox because that’s clearly not the point of the series and how basic I am for taking text at face value. Do you think that concept suddenly changes because a book was published before 1960?
