Contrary Triptych with Ideological Songs

Abstract

On January 27, 1898, the 17^th issue of “Collier’s Weekly” published the Prologue to the famous novel by Henry James The Turn of the Screw. This novel about a difficult relationship between a young governess and two orphaned children (Flora and Miles) convinces the reader that Demons really exist and Evil embodies various characters. At times it takes the form of a benefactor. The paper is an attempt to reconstruct three mechanisms of ideology which after WWII modified collective awareness. These three mechanisms, as three vices, stabilized and enabled to rebuild the insight of the immature individuals. The first one – the ideological vice of the press – initiated every day and often banal press releases; the second one – ideological educational vise – evolved from the school curricula, especially of the Polish language; the third one – the ideological reading vice – was the most hidden and treacherous, oppressed in the context of extracurricular reading. The influence of the first of them is illustrated by the analysis of exemplary press releases on a summer camp of 1947, the second one talks about the curriculum of the Polish language teaching process in 1949 in the 11-grade high school, and the ideological influences are discussed in the comments about the message of Marian Brandys’s Wyprawy do Arteku (1953).