Ha, it always made me laugh when English teachers insisted that Hamlet not liking his stepdad was Sheakespeare's subliminal way of showing that the young man wanted to shag his own mum. WTF?!
and that mr tickles arms were a metaphor for him reaching out to express his desire to be accepted and loved by a world he felt alienated from.
not only has that made my night, its forced me to stop and reevaluate everything ive ever known. thanks!
We studied Lord of the Flies at O level and our English teacher was convinced that all of this"spearing" of the pigs represented something completely different. Especially when Simon got his "comeuppance"
But that is so obviously right! You should follow my religion:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastafarianism please log in to view this image
I'd have thought Oedipus, but that's killing his own actual father and then shagging his mother rather than his stepfather. It's supposed to be the basis of male existance for, I think it's Freudians, I'm pretty sure Freud had those kind of weird beliefs anyway. I reckon they take it too literally, the story seems a bit like Planet of the Apes in that sense (if I remember rightly the book was by a French bloke decontextualising the slave trade to make people see it was wrong).
