What Is Femme Obsess?

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“Beauty without intelligence is like a masterpiece drawn on a napkin” - Unknown. This quote contains a deep message. The meaning of this quote is that it is harder to recognize true beauty on a person who is intellectually flawed and author is comparing that to a napkin and like how it's harder to find a masterpiece on something as disposable like paper. Nowadays women are obsessing over the way they look and in order to look beautiful they change themselves but that isn’t the only aspect to beauty. Most of femme fatales are smart. They are sly, and sneaky. They can formulate plans and go through with them. “Nick: You like playing games don't you? Catherine: I have a degree in psychology, it goes with the turf... Games are fun.” This is a quote from Basic …show more content…
There is was scene where she is in a dream-like state when they are discussing a certain case. In this scene Sherlock already knows the answer and he gives her hints to find out the answer and she was able to think quickly on the spot. Also she was able to fool a genius like Sherlock into thinking she was dead. This shows how women were able to use smartness and not just looks to fool a man, that was shown as a smarter character. In the past, women weren’t encouraged to get educated but some of them had the dream that they wanted to be something and they decided to pursue it despite what society told them. They didn’t stay home and wait until the day they got married. They went out and became something and a gave back to the community. As mentioned, femme fatales are very intelligent. These three femme fatales that were previously discussed had gotten education (Catherine Tramell has a degree in psychology and is a writer, Vesper Lynd is a part of MI6 and she is a part of the treasury, and Irene Adler is a MBA graduate of the Open University Business

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