Seduction of the Innocent

“How many hours these confined children spend on crime comic books and his dismay at seeing how children who had got into trouble while reading many crime comics were sentenced to years of incarceration” (cited in Seduction of the Innocent 1954: 47). Though religious groups, parental and public pressure were also partly to blame. (refer to Stanley Cohen 's Folk Devils and Moral Panics 1972: for an…

that have accurate representations of the gay community, especially regarding men who experience the majority of the homophobic stereotypes readers are acclimatized to view as “gay behaviors." Background The controversy involving comic books impacting children is not a new perspective. In 1948, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham wrote and spoke publicly about his beliefs that comics corrupt children with their secret messages advocating social evils such as crime, loose sexual morals, and…

In 1954 a psychiatrist by the name of Fredrick Wertham published a very influential book titled, Seduction of the Innocent. It was so influential that Carol L. Tilley described it as a “historical and cultural touchstones of the anticomics movement in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s” (Tilley, 2012, p.383). This is a polarized stance, one that Tilley is determined to defend. When Wertham published his book, it was revealed as a masterpiece by parents, authors, and even the New York…

They believed these comic books were at least partially to blame for crime and delinquency in youth. This idea was fueled by psychiatrist Fredric Wertham’s book Seduction of the Innocent in 1954. Fredric Wertham was a big wheel when it comes to the campaign against comics. Seduction of the Innocent caused the most devastating effects. Here he stated that comic books were from nowhere, leading to juvenile delinquency and also stultified kids’ imaginations. Countless religious and patriotic…

For my research paper, I will be examining gender relationships in seventeenth century France as portrayed by The Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens. My current impressions from this painting was that women were expected to be submissive or need to be controlled. While I was unable to find any secondary sources that specifically discussed The Massacre of the Innocents, I was able to find two articles discussing other works by Rubens and how they related to French culture. The first…

reasons Angel cherishes Tess so dearly, is because of this seeming virginity. He idealizes Tess to state of being a innocent, divine being; when in reality, by Victorian standards she is a fallen woman. Because of this it could be perceived that it is in fact her lack of innocence that is presented as dangerous, as when Angel finds out about the ‘seduction’ at ‘The Chase’ he claims to have married ‘a different woman’. Albeit one that was innocent in all ways, not only in soul but in body also.…

castle between Gawain and Lady Bertilak. The first attempt of seduction and the first hunt take place near the beginning of Gawain’s stay with the king. Starting from part three, line 1182, Gawain is sleeping in his chamber when the women enters and sits on his bed. Surprisingly, Gawain takes a position of passivity whenever he is asked to do something. Gawain pretends to be sleeping, and makes a production of wakening-up. The woman is playing a game with Gawain, because he knows he must…

emphasize both the purity and chivalric defense of Gawain as a young knight and his and his ultimate descent from his honest chivalry. During the first day of the hunt, Lord Bertilak and his men set off to hunt deer. As an animal, deer are seen as graceful and non-threatening, and their numbers in the wild are abundant. They are also seen as innocent and pure, especially in images of does and their young. As prey, their meat and skin are highly valued and are looked to be. As a group, Bertilak…

In the short poems, “The Flea” by John Donne and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell, the theme of carpe diem, or “seize the day”, is incorporated in these poems. In other words, the theme is about enjoying life in the moment and to make the most of it because life is short. In both of these poems, the writers express that theme by attempting to persuade women to seize the day. In other words, they are poems of seduction. In the poems in Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” and John…

She spreads the word around that her husbands betray her with improper activities. She accuses them of interacting with other women, becoming drunkards, and other acts against God’s will. Alice states, “‘I would firmly swear to my old husbands, that they said this in their drunkenness; and all was false, except I got Jankin and my niece to be my witnesses. O Lord! The pain and woe I did them, though they were innocent, by God’s sweet suffering!” (NeCastro, 394.) Although untrue, Alice convinces…