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Jane's infancy in Gateshead was a torment
by Paloma del Álamo (2008-09, 5º C)
As almost everything has been already said in the blog about this subject, I Want to try something new. I am going to prove the assertion made in the title from a scientific point of view.
There is no forgetting we are social animals and we need to interact with people around us in order that our physical and intellectual development should be complete. In accordance with this, everyone is born with three basic requirements: food, care and love.
In spite of having got food and attention, Jane lacked love, and therefore, warmth and embraces, the importance of which was revealed by means of the next experiment:
Several small macaques were placed in cages, each with two different artificial mothers: one was made from wire and had attached a feeding bottle full of milk; the other was covered up with towelling and was not carrying any food. What happened was the following: the little monkeys usually went to feed themselves with the first mother, after finishing, they went very quickly to embrace the second one and remained with it.
Kaiser William the Second did another test: he took two different groups of fifteen new born orphans. Even though they got care, the babies in the first group never were spoken to. All of them died. The ones in the second survived.
According to this experiments Jane’s infancy had to be necessarily a torment, her basic necessities not being covered. But, on top of this, she was constantly bullied; a sour experience added to the shortages she previously had.
Had she been treated with tenderness, she would have had a charmingly open manner and would have been a girl happy, affectionate, playful and trusting. The fact that she was not like that, proves that she had not a happy childhood.
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