Talk:2008-09 AM Richard Head, The English Rogue (1665)

Pregnancies

Could a possible topic for a presentation be pregnancy and morals in "The ER"? Could it be about the feelings of the ER about pregnancy/frutility or the lack thereof and the abundance amount of sexual activites he has despite fear of fatherhood? Perhaps these feelings connect to his childhood? Would this be a relevant presentation topic or is it too vague? Or are you, Olaf, leaning in other directions and mindsets when it comes to the presentations and theories we need to discuss?

It is of course interesting that they have sex and care little about pregnancies. Question is only: how do we get from the observation into an interesting question of research? Perhaps the pregnancy aspect is not quite precisely what you are aiming at. Is it promiscuity? Can you produce a thesis on the topic - a kind of possible result of such research, a result one can discuss? Is there a class connection in it? Is it satire (do these people get punished for what they do?), maybe one should search for contrasting written materials on the same market, and use the observations to get a clearer notion of the status the topic gets in our particular text. Aristotle's Masterpiece was on the cheap market the book people would read to learn more about these facts of life... The topic is definitely there, yet we will need a research question to catch it nicely and fruitfully. --Olaf Simons 15:40, 17 October 2008 (CEST)