The Children's Era: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
The Children's Era: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
The Beautiful Garden of Children
We'll admit it: a garden of children isn't really our ideal garden. It honestly sounds a little hectic, a little sticky, and a lot bit full of temper tantrums. Our ideal is more like Busch Gardensâ...
Human Weeds/Trainloads of Children
That Victorian/Edwardian idealization of children we talked about in our discussion of the Beautiful Garden of Children had one little problem. Not all children were clean, well-dressed, middle or...
The Enslaved Mother
Let's recall that Sanger's main concern is making sure women can choose when and if they become mothers and how many children they have. Midway through her speech, she characterizes mothers who can...
The Unborn Child
Sanger asks her audience to imagine for a moment that an unborn child has the power to choose its fate and interview its parents. Yeah: it's an eerie sci-fi moment thrown into what is pretty much a...
The Bureau of the Child-to-Be
Not only does Sanger imagine a world in which unborn babies have a super-advanced grasp of the English language and say things like…No, thank you! I don't care to be born at all if I cannot be we...