An Innocent Man

NETTLES The poem “Nettles” is about the relationship of a father and his son. The father is angered by the fact that his son has been stung by nettles, and shows violence and aggression. The poem basically talks about how parents try to protect their children, but later on realize that their children can’t be protected form everything. The poem starts off with, “My son aged three fell in the nettle bed”. Using the personal pronoun “My” shows that this is a personal poem. And by telling us that…

illustrates the ‘‘unsaid’’ between the male and female characters. This story also illustrates the solidarity among women. Even though, Minnie Wright might be guilty of killing her husband, the women who act as unofficial investigators, believe she is innocent. Every time the women defend her, the men laugh at them for being ‘‘loyal to [her] sex’’ (Glaspell, 149). The county attorney uses discursive dominance to illustrate this sexism as a joke, but really, it is to depreciate the women. When it…

Candy and his dog are similar to George and Lennie. Lennie was no longer good for George, but Lennie has lived with George for a long time and is also his only friend. Lennie and Candy’s dog were both shots on the back of the head, and they are both innocent and powerless. George was no longer in need of Lennie because Lennie was just bringing him trouble. Their friendship was no longer cohesion because of the society’s norms towards Lennie, which George could not control. George felt lonely in…

stay silent and allow them to speak. Even when they hesitated, don't interrupt, or ask another question, but maintain the benign, friendly expression, and pretend interest. Nobody, not even Psychiatrists, enjoyed awkward pauses, however Gerald was a man accustomed to them, and it was always the patients who broke the silence first, and that's where the majority of revelations came from. They needed to fill the empty void with words, and in their desperation to provide themselves that comfort,…

Introduction: Houshang Golshiri and his masterwork Prince Ehtejab Similar to other branches of art, literature has been under the domination of male-centered ideology. Great masterpieces have been most of the times known to be written by men. Even those who have written stories about women conflict are depicted women from a male gaze, either a main male character or the writer himself. The famous modern Persian writer Houshang Golshiri, who had written many fictions about women struggle, is not…

Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (hereinafter “Chevalier d’Eon”, “d’Eon”, or “D’Eon”), was born on October 5, 1728 to a noble family that held various military and political offices throughout France. Given D’Eon’s noble heritage, his opportunities for a career and advancement in both the military or politics were practically limitless, and he took full advantage of his status, graduating with a doctorate degree in law as well as becoming a master of fencing.…

Victorian society was characterized by the strict norms imposed upon its populace. All were expected to adhere to their designated societal role – men the workers, women the caregivers. In A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen probes the problems of the roles assigned to women in a male-oriented society. For women, their sharply defined roles did not allow for individuality, forcing them to sacrifice their identity in order to fit into society. A Doll’s House assess the dichotomy between who women are…

Imagine being handcuffed, to demonstrate a magic trick, by a man you thought you trusted and in a blink of an eye his intentions change and you end up with a rope around your throat. This was what John Wayne Gacy did to his many victims. John Wayne Gacy seemed to be a respected business man with many friends in high places, but his life would be an open book after his last murder of a boy by the name of Robert Piest. Wounded by his childhood, Gacy was taught to hide unusual yearning for the…

The bad version of a benevolent monarch was a malevolent monarch, which was the worst form of government. A malevolent monarch was one who pursued his own wishes and kept the citizens under tight control. This is closely aligned with a modern day dictatorship, where the people are suppressed and are forced to work in ways that will benefit the ruler’s wishes. The second best form of government, Aristotle described as an aristocracy, made up of good people. Aristocracies had the well being of its…

once one does feel that he is greater than the other, the unity will then be gone. He explains that everyone’s opinion matters and great minds should always come together. The Castaway can be found in the passage of The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. Women can be considered as castaways in the section being that they are not given much importance. Much of the rights written in this document,…