CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Erotic literature has been evidently rampant to the millennial. Erotic Literature comprises of fictional and factual stories and accounts of human sexual relationships which have the power to arouse or are intended to arouse the reader sexually. Fifty Shades of Grey for instance, when out in the public was read by millions of people. Including the thousands of created book in Wattpad. Teenagers became brave and committed that they now engage in writing one. At first, the idea was so sensitive that it was only read before privately. Today, it became a newly accepted form of literature. When talking about erotic literature, some may have recognized this as taboo and vulgar that it must be kept hidden in the eyes of young ones. Even education negates possibility to discuss it in class. Those conservative people refuse to involve this within the same conversation. Inclusion of erotic literature as part of English subject of Senior High School …show more content…
If the process is not clean or well-done, then there would be malnourishment of the development, it is reflected on literature as well. Would erotic literature aid the diminishing importance of literature? The research would be beneficial once done to the following sectors. 1. YOUTH- The interest in writing especially writing erotic literature would expose them to have a positive outlook even though it is a sensitive topic when it comes to their age or not. 2. STUDENTS- Since they are the beneficiary of this study, this helps them to become open- minded when it comes to issue about erotic literature or even other erotic genre. 3. TEACHERS- New teaching strategy would come up in the inclusion of erotic literature that can relate to the students more. 4. INSTITUTION- the research would manifest what educational materials that is related in erotic literature should be used in
Chapter seventeen of How to Read Literature Like a Professor focuses on how authors employ sex in their writing as a way to encode other things. For example, in the 2015 romantic comedy film, Trainwreck, Amy Schumer plays a young woman with a liking for booze, sex and drugs. The film begins with a scene where Gordon Townsend is explaining his reasoning for why monogamy isn’t realistic to his two little girls. The film then flashes twenty three years forward, directly into a sex scene featuring Amy and a one night stand. The scene is fairly short and it is obvious that the attraction on Amy’s side is limited, for she pretends to fall asleep soon after walking in the door.
My thesis would be about Trying different roles and gender role-playing while the experimenting with one’s sexuality. “Exchanging Hats” by Elizabeth Bishop is a whimsical poem about experimenting with pushing gender dress to the limits of acceptability. Hats are customarily used to define a person’s role in society or profession. This poem uses that mantra to depict the different roles that people play, and the different hats they wear to emphasize those roles.
In the text, Dana states his argument by saying that Americans are losing interest in the arts and literature. Dana supports his arguments by using the 2002 survey of public participation in Arts with additional consensus similar to this, recites the quote of a known author and uses parallelism like “imagination, creativity and high order of thinking.” The main idea or purpose is to draw attention to this problem and to try to fix it because it will pose a serious danger for the future. The primary audience is the youth of the American people. In his introduction, Dana compares the positive aspects in American life and the main idea: the lack of interest shown by young Americans in the arts.
The book contains vulgar language, violent imagery and sexual explicitness. Myers
In the fiction books Brave New World and 1984, authors Aldous Huxley and George Orwell, respectively, write about potential dystopias in the future. Although they both envision eventual dystopias, the juxtaposition of the two novels shows that they are for different reasons. For example, while the society in 1984 is run by fear and punishment, Brave New World is run by false happiness. Oppositions in themes such as sex, technology, and indifference between the book are apparent, and in my opinion, I would rather live in Brave New World due to its more positive approach. Of the many shared themes tackled by both authors, views on sex are among the most differing.
Censorship and libraries could be synonyms in the present. With the number of novels and ideas seen and advertised, there are equal amounts of articles hidden behind the scenes or tucked away. Recently, a debate sparked about books involving mature or violent content being allowed in schools. Night by Elie Wiesel is a book about his personal experience through the Holocaust involving death, excessive violence, and the Jewish religion. Sensitive topics such as these lead others to preach the removal of such harsh writing due to their objective obscenity and effects on students.
The trembling didn’t help as I tried to hurry to-” sorry but the Rockingham County School Board has banned this book due to the mature themes and sexual content. This book isn’t the only one that’s being banned based on the contents it contains and it certainly won’t be the last. In an online article What People Object To When They Ban Books, written by Sarah Begley, “While violence and substance use both make the top 10, sexually explicit content draws far more criticism, ranking the No. 1 most cited reason for seeking to ban a book.” (Begley) Every book has a main point or
She believes the syllabus provided to students do not include any challenging books, and her belief toward high school teachers becoming too lazy to examine thoroughly if the book the education system provides them with represent any true and significant value is a recurring concern of hers’- therefore ineffective to students. All in all, Prose used ethos, pathos, logos and the usage of specific words to help her argument. She successfully persuades her point of view and makes it clear that if schools want their curriculum to improve, they must change their way of teaching and push their students to view literature in a new
Prose hopes that eventually an end to having the students read literature that remains irrelevant to them will prevail. Prose successfully persuades her readers that high school English classes lack when it comes to teaching literature. She pushes the thought that educated novels and classic literature prevail
Ever since its publication in 1960, it has also been one of the books most frequently challenged by would-be censors.” (Johnson-Durst) When this book is read in schools it can make the students
It is proposed by Radway that romance reading offers most readers with an escape from the patriarchal system and mundane existence. By examining the reasons as to why women like reading romantic novels and the meaning that they glean, it is argued that romances follow structure that is very strict, where the woman is portrayed as beautiful, sexually immature and defiant, contrasted to a brooding handsome man who is usually able to show gentle and soft gestures (Click et al. 199). Ultimately, Radway comes to a conclusion that reading of romantic books is influenced by dissatisfaction, where female readers look for care and
Of Mice and Men is a book both widely criticized and praised. Once hailed by the Nobel prize judges in 1962 for his realism and sympathetic humor, John Steinbeck is now under attack in the United States. Steinbeck’s story of the difficulties faced by the migrant fieldworkers is a fixture on high-school syllabi in the United States and beyond, but has also become one of America’s most frequently challenged books due to over 100 counts of profanities, morbid and depressing themes, and the authors alleged “anti-business attitude.” Others have called the book derogatory towards African Americans, women, and the developmentally disabled” (pbs.org). Although there are objections to content, Of Mice and Men should not be banned because despite profanity
Many years after Moby-Dick was first condemned, there are still modern occurrences of controversy. In 1996, a Texas public school district challenged Moby-Dick for violating its community ideals. This difficulty with the novel arose when “parents complained that the book went against family values,” so it was shunned from the classroom for a few months, although it was never actually banned (Jarvis 80). Although these values were never clearly defined, literary critics believe that a “controversial topic in Moby-Dick scholarship has been the novel’s homoeroticism,” or the underlying themes of same-sex desire and symbolic gender roles (Habich and Nowatzki 155). This theory can be observed in the relationship between Ishmael and Queequeg.
In this essay, "Why Literature Matters", author Dana Gioia sets up an argument about literature. Which she uses various ways to persuade her audience be in favor of her proposal; by showing statistic evidence, facts, and historical evidence, as well as some ironies, diction, and the appeals to reader's emotion. First of all, Gioia begins with strong appeals to reader's logos by clearly laying out the statistic source. For example, "According to the 2002 survey of Public Participation in the Arts, the reading population of the Americans is declining. " In turn, is an attempt to point out the thesis statement and make the readers to think out about this topic wile reading through her essay.
It prevents them from being appalled at the seemingly crude and shallow novel, and allows them to experience it for what it truly is: a