I really do not like most movies or television shows set in the 1800s. This is not because I have not given them a chance. I have watched my share of movies from the era. I used to watch Westerns with my dad and I have seen many of movies of what I consider the other big major nineteenth century genre: romance.
There are a few things that I don't like about stories from the nineteenth century.
- A lot of movies about the era, and especially the romances, dwell on the social rules and interactions of the time. I am convinced that I would not be comfortable with most of the social rules from that era.
- Speaking of comfort, does anything look less comfortable than the clothes in Little House on the Prairie?
- I am not an outdoors person, so I might not have even survived one hundred fifty years ago.
- I don't long for a life with less technology.
- When I have visited museums and recreations of historical life, I have been struck by how unappealing the life appears. Examples of what I am talking about are the Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead and Fort Niagara.
4 comments:
I generally think I wouldn't make it 100 years ago. I do think that the more we learn about the past, the more we appreciate what we have now.
I love Little House on the Prairie.
I don't have a problem with those movies and I kinda romanticize that era along with all the other era's.
I think I'd like a simpler way of life. It's hard to imagine though because I know too much now - I have eaten the fruit and can't go back in the garden.
I like the Garden of Eden analogy on a level that I can't even put into words.
I like the movies, but I've never had a desire to go back to a time period without running, indoor water facilities.
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