Jon Cleland’s Memoirs of a Women of Pleasure, In other times known as Fanny Hill, is a story of a country girl whom becomes wealthy by selling sex in the brothels that thrived in London in the 18th century otherwise considered “pornography.” In those days, the term pornography, in all actuality ‘writing about prostitutes”, which in essences perfectly describes the book context. The novel is very explicit and graphic by nature, with its in depth descriptions of “the truth, stark naked truth”, and full of “unreserved intimacies”, and expressly “violating the laws of decency” quoted by the author in the book. During this era, women whom were unmarried and also lacking male relatives to care for them, were very limited in choices of supporting themselves.…
: The story opens with an introduction to the main character, Raskolnikov in the city of Petersburg. Though he is described as “exceptionally handsome” and “above the average in height”(2), he is dressed shabbily, is “verging on hypochondria”(1) and is planning a murder. The victim would be Alyona Ivanovna, a pawn shop owner who is malicious, stingy, and crude overall. After selling a watch to her and absorbing details of the building, Raskolnikov meets Marmeledov, a drunkard who cannot hold a job, is married to a woman of noble background, Katerina, but only because of a failed marriage she previously had, and has a daughter Sonia who has had to become a prostitute to help support the family. After going with Marmaledov to his home, Raskolnikov wakes up the next day in his apartment…
Overall my experience with reading has been forced, and limited and has lost its original glamour. For me what reading novels brings to other people, I can obtain through other means that are more appealing for my way of thinking. While I don’t enjoy the act of reading a 600 page mandatory novel, I do enjoy the conversations that it can cause. Such as the debating, and sometimes the arguments, that come from the material within the carefully thought out cover pages can be intriguing and rewarding. However, to say that books have influenced my thoughts about the world, or have made…
In the sequence of ‘The Great Gatsby’, we face off with multiple accounts of the women’s role in that era of history. The author was a man that goes by the name of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the creator of ‘The Great Gatsby’, and he constructed the characters to represent deceit, obsession, greed, power, and romance. His writing style is that he uses present tense in the beginning of the sentence, but then reverse it to future tense by demonstrating a sense of shift of the narrator’s, Nick Caraway, thoughts and actions in order to explain the ordeals in his surroundings and the outcome of it. Even though this novel was marked for the men’s deception and the women’s flirtatious ways, the three women’s behavior, Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, and…
Novels are constantly evolving over time, yet despite time passing, some novels continue to represent women as sexualized objects. The female characters in Nella Larsen’s Passing, first published in 1929 but takes place in the 1920s, and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, published in 2007 but takes place from the 1940s to the 1990s, are subject to this representation because both novel’s narrators place an emphasis on physical features. Although both novels take place in different times and settings, both novels are creating and representing women as exotic sexualized objects because of their gender and race. Larsen and Díaz’s emphasis on the blackness of female characters demonstrates the timelessness of the importance…
In this story, “Objectification Never Looked This Good,” is about the author, Stephanie Hurtado-Hoyos, describing how females are treated as and considers as an “Object.” This particular story describes how the females are considered and viewed to be “sexy” from their childhood. This story also explains and blames that a girl or a woman has to take for being sexy and being raped. This story explains why boys are not considered as a blame for rapping women. Women are a blame themselves for showing off their body and for tempting men into the position where they rape the women.…
Art and literature are the foundation of life. Long before Netflix and social media existed, people used books to entertain themselves. Mason Cooley said “reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are”. Even in 21st century, the age of technology, people use books as a source of entertainment and writing as a form of self-expression. Books and reading in general has many benefits like mental stimulation, gaining knowledge and much more.…
So, if they are devoting this time to something that they are already not a fan of, reading dull material will only worsen the experience. They will constantly be reminded of the reasons why they dislike the activity in the first place and will therefore not be transported to a fictional place; the content will never stick with them afterward as a result. However, if they decide to read about something that they are eager to learn about, they will be able to forget that they are in the act of reading and will be able to let their…
Taletha Mumit Dr. Rachel Miller Composition II RLAE-FINAL DRAFT May 4, 2015 The Ambiance of Public Dressing In the short story, “A & P”, by author John Updike, the decisions that the characters makes are consequential. The story has a twist to it. The teenagers are engaged in certain scenarios which includes the enticement and the judgments of others. The author, John Updike, uses a variety of literary elements to throw off the readers.…
In the narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs gives first person account of a female slave struggle with sexual oppression. Harriet Jacobs used the pseudonym when narrating because she wanted to protect her family. Harriet Jacobs use of a distinctive double-consciousness to make aware of the multiple identities one as an African American female slave has to develop a sense of self. It is my argument here Jacobs makes use of double-consciousness by using a pseudonym to show there was more to slavery and puts the divisions between gender on a stage. Harriet Jacob’s autobiography is a popular female eighteenth-century slave narrative.…
1800’s American Poet, Edwin H. Chapin states, “No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” The second greatest power of love, after God, is the “Mother’s limitless love” – the love of patience, love of faith, and the love forgiveness. In Crime and Punishment, the suffering plays a role of fundamentally setting all of the characters in a different trait of psychological and physical suffering. Among those characters, the unfortunate two mothers – Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikov and Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladov, suffer from the name of “Mother”, the hopeless inner conflict of not being able to support their family at both present and future.…
Darecia Brock Professor Huber FAM 253-19Z 31 October 2017 Fifty Shades of Grey and Society’s view of Sexual Variation E L James’s Fifty Shades of Grey is not only a masterpiece in exploring a Bondage Discipline, Sadism, and Masochism (BDSM) relationship between two completely opposite characters, but is also a New York Times Bestseller, which is why I chose this book and topic for my research paper. The main characters of this book are Anastasia Steel, who is an innocent literature student at Washington State University, and Christian Grey, who is a young entrepreneur. Anastasia is portrayed as a shy and kindhearted person who can be awkward and keeps to herself. Christian is portrayed as a young, handsome business-driven man; he also has…
“RAPE, TEN THINGS TO DO ABOUT IT, like it was ten new hairdos or something.” The desensitization of sexual assault is promptly addressed by Margaret Atwood’s short story “Rape Fantasies.” The magazine article that the women are reading in and the title alone demonstrates how society creates rape to be this romanticized and skewed act.…
No matter how long it takes, reading a book is always captivating to the imagination. When reading a book, the reader has the full power to decide what the scenery and characters look like to him…
She intends to shock the audience by deconstructing an ultimate truth; society is to blame, not just the rapist- “Shame on you, shame on all of us”. However through the juxtaposition of light and dark, she also intends for her text to be an opportunity for people to engage and find personal…