English 2033E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Sleeping, Brothers Grimm, Red Riding

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2033E
• Professor: Clarissa Suranyi

Document Summary

Children stereotypes: innocent, imaginative, greedy and selfish, vulnerable, History of childhood: easily manipulated or manipulators of adults. These may or may not be accurate but are contradictory: the puritans (cid:523)(cid:883)5(cid:882)(cid:882)"s(cid:524): believed we are born with an inherently sinful nature, resists obedience to and worship of god. The role of childhood instruction was to discipline the unruly, sinful spirit. Children were seen as smaller adults, with the same needs as adults for spiritual and religious instruction, the role of religious instruction was to prepare one to die. As we grow up, we lose our faint memories of heaven, our spiritual nature is trampled on, and we lose our imagination, spontaneity, and creativity. By mid 19th century these ideas started to entirely by their environment. This put a new emphasis on the important of childhood experiences. Our (cid:498)common-sense(cid:499) ideas about children are very much open to question and debates. Avoid making grand generalizations about what (cid:498)children(cid:499) are.