In the article, Toys wrote by Roland Barthes, he talks about how toys write about the importance of how toys affect a child’s mind until they become young adults. These toys are diminutive forms of the adult world since wretchedly the youngster is considered to be a minor adult and not a younger adult. Toys are frequently assigned to children to imagine who they will be when they grow up and children do not seem to understand what they seem to be playing it. Toys are manufactured in the factory to represent itself, and deliver the quality required for children to enjoy once provided to them. The existence of these toys are just there to prepare the child for their adulthood has it passes by over the years. One agrees with Barthes’s perspective …show more content…
Barthes condemns the use of plastic as a material and the complicated manufacturing of toys. In this generation, toys are only chemical items with no kind of linking to the innovator idea of toys to make the toys and the thought of it. Barthes says, “…the plastic material of which they are made has an appearance at once gross and hygienic, it destroys all the pleasure, the sweetness, the humanity of touch.” Toys are sensitive to breaking which causes the playtime of kids to collapse. The importance to offer a connection between the children and the toy becomes lost as the material is not life-like and is not pleasurable to the child. The toy will become useless once broken and there is no guarantee for the child to ever play with it again as he or she will forget about …show more content…
It is not just an object where a child simply plays with it but also is a hand a child holds to develop their psychological skills of creativity and social play with others. Toys are essential when developing the mind of the child before they reach adulthood. Also, his argument of toys made of wood versus plastic is very strong. As wood was a part of a living breathing tree, it is important to know when feeling it, feels life-like compared to a plastic made toy where it feels fake. It all starts in the roots of the toy and wooden toys started from trees in the woods or wherever they got them from. The durability of wooden toys is guaranteed to last as the child grows compared to plastics where they must replace it with something all the time which restarts the bond between the toy and the child. It is a completely different from what most people are using as it is not just a simple toy but a development tool to the child’s human