Question

What are ‘compulsive habits’? What does Maxwell say are the compulsive habits of
(i) school children

(ii) Mij?
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Answer 1

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What are ‘compulsive habits’? What does Maxwell say are the compulsive habits of

(i) school children

(ii) Mij?

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Compulsive habits usually refers to strange behavioural acts done by a person without clear reason. For example, a kid may jump over a fence, instead taking the normal passageway. Usually children express compulsive behaviour as they are mischievous by nature.

(i) As per the story, Maxwell expresses the compulsive habits such the rituals of children who on their way to and from school must place their feet squarely on the centre of each paving block; must touch every seventh upright of the iron railings, or pass to the outside of every second lamp post.

(ii) Similarly, even Mijbil while on his way to home would jump over the boundary wall railing and gallop the full length of its thirty yards, to the hopeless distraction both of pupils and of staff within.

Answer 2

Answer:

Compulsive habits are habits that are impossible to control. According to Maxwell, children on their way to and from school must place their feet squarely on the centre of each paving block; they must touch every seventh upright of the iron railings, or pass to the outside of every second lamp post.