33:390:310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Minstrel, French Revolution, Sodium Hydride
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Portray morale conduct that is coming from nature. In reality they are modifying the tales and directing it towards the readers: educating girls and boys through fear and stories in order to promote certain behaviors. How is it being shaped: repetition, submissively lulling you into absorbing the ideas, being taught to listen/read/behave in a specific way. Makes the argument that punishment and fear in the tails function/form the audience: also creates an enjoyment factor, audience enjoys watching people suffers. Popular fiction, news, etc. still reflect this trend of people enjoying pain and suffering of others: freud. Argues that people enjoy the pain and suffering as well. Tatar also argues that back then pain and suffering was an every day occurrence: today pain and suffering is hidden to a certain extent. Once everyday survival wasn"t always a up for question a psychological component enters the tales: the tales start to reflect a kind of reality.