EN 3174 Lecture Notes - Puritans, Binary Opposition, Nuclear Family
Document Summary
Arbitrary ideas that depend on the ideology of the critic. Depends on the bias of the reader. Historical and social 1800-present ideas in london. Binary opposition, in opposition to child and adults. Hendrix charts version of childhood between idealized idea of innocence, and a pessimistic idea of the child from the puritans. The child has a blank slate of mind. Neutral figures shaped by education and experience. Child is born good and displays an original innocence. Environment and city living influences the child, and destroys the child. A child must develop outside of society/city, in nature. These two notions share the idea of the romantic notion of a child, when a child is considered innocent. Child linked in the operation of the imagination. Peter pan represents a sentimental idea of childhood. Does not want to grow up, remain as a child.
