You Couldn’t Make It Up

I hear that Macbeth has been re-written especially for university students.

The witches are just ordinary, happy people dancing round a maypole, there are no murders, ghosts don't appear because no-one dies and everyone has a group hug and lives happily ever after.

The End

I think I read that Persuasion gives an over romantic view of war!! It is interesting that the GC seem to spend a lot of time in history learning about the WW1 and WW2 and the Cold War, do history teachers spend the whole lesson giving warnings of death and destruction?

Michty me, Maw but we should be warned that Mansfield Park contains scenes of bullying and a name that some people may find offensive.
Still, I was comforted by Netflix warning that some programmes contained smoking and therefore was prepared when I had to to avert my eyes.

Moonfleet!

I remember the English teacher giving it to us (age 11) just because of the horror element in it.

(It’s haunted me to this day?)

You Couldn’t Make It Up

But someone, somewhere, somehow has!

???

Cotton wool at the ready!

I remember reading many utterly gruesome tales from Greek mythology in primary school -with no warnings at all.

Should A.A.Milnes’ Winnie the Pooh books have a disclaimer as Ee-ore is a manic depressive?

annodomini

*MayBeMaw*, All I can think of in Jane Austen's work might be in Pride and Prejudice: Lydia's elopement - under-age sex.

Wasn't she 16 by the time they eloped?

Then there's an absentee father - the love rat Willougby in S & S.

MayBeMaw, All I can think of in Jane Austen's work might be in Pride and Prejudice: Lydia's elopement - under-age sex.

(I’m still racking my brains to think what anybody needs to be warned about in a Jane Austen novel too! )

Me too, Maw.

References to slavery, perhaps?

Or Captain Wentworth's prize money 'earned' by fighting the French, which must have involved death... (nothing changes, does it? We're still fighting the French )

It’s not just the warnings though- ridiculous as they are.
If you read a book called “Kidnapped” - it’s not going to be about knitting patterns is it? The clue might be in the title .
And “execution and death” - tautology or what?
(I’m still racking my brains to think what anybody needs to be warned about in a Jane Austen novel too! )

Surely those warnings, if they need to be given, should be issued in primary or secondary school- that’s when I read those books.

These students are adults who’ve grown up with more information at their fingertips than any past generation and they’re being mollycoddled on the final hurdles before real life hits them....lawdy?

Cambridge University have done the same. It beggars belief.

Flipping heck…

Aaaw. The wee pets. ?

I have read your post in disbelief Maw. How we all survived without warnings at every turn is remarkable!

Similarly, warnings before viewing a film, TV series.
Contains - Smoking, Alcohol, Sex, etc., etc.! Not necessary when we can just turn off/change channels if we can’t cope with the contents. Duh!

It gets worse, doesn't it? When you think of some of the violent computer games this age group happily play, it makes no sense to me.

But MayBMaw surely it obvious that if no warning is given the students will suffer mental health issues.
They must be protected ??‍♀️