Students are warned they may find reading Jane Eyre Disturbing

[Wandering Walter]

What the hell is happening in the UK today, Students have been warned reading Jane Eyre or Dickens may disturb them as it they contain references to violence, sexual assault, etc etc

For heavens sake generations have read them over the years, or watched dramas on TV about them

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10382323/Read-Jane-Eyre-dare-University-students-given-trigger-warnings-classic-literature.html

[Alex]

As Victor would say "I don't belieeeeve it  "

[Wandering Walter]

Sheer Madness they are bonkers

[Michael Rolls]

on a par with a bag of peanuts inscribed 'Warning: product contains nuts' - and nuts is about right
Mike

[zoony]

Gawd 'elp 'em when they get round to the Old Testament!

[Mark]

 

[Michael Rolls]

Even the New Testament - into what will they mangle 'suffer little children to come unto me'?
Mike

[Scrumpy]

I agree.. They should just read The Mail.. The Mirror.. The Express.. or news headlines.. Far less violence..

[Wandering Walter]

Gawd 'elp 'em when they get round to the Old Testament!

[Jacqueline]

Read both books in junior school, never disturbed me. 

Don't most kids have X Boxes these days? from what I hear Grand Theft Auto and violent war games are pretty advarage stuff but classic literature comes with a warning?

I was reading some of the comments on this story on the Mail page, one comment said that perhaps the wokes don't like the fact that Dickins wrote of the Workhouses, poverty and degredation in Victorian England, while they want to paint a picture of the privaledged British people oppressing the rest of the world, which dosen't fit with the reality for most people of the times.  Very interesting point I think.

[zoony]

Careful Jacq. 'Dickens is one thing, 'Dick-Ins' are quite another! 

[klondike]

That one's got more hair on it's chin than I have. 

[Jacqueline]

Careful Jacq. 'Dickens is one thing, 'Dick-Ins' are quite another! 

Sorry guys, didn't check that did  I, will be more careful in future.