Castration

property (Gibson). During slavery, there were thousands of public punishments of slaves, none of which were preceded by trials or any civil or judicial processes (Gibson). Justice rested solely in the slaveholder’s hands. Brandings, whippings, castrations, executions, and other forms of harsh punishment, including the separation of families, were issued by the command of the master (Gibson). Often, slaves from the plantation and nearby plantations were assembled and made to watch the punishment…

Being such an iconic Petrarchan lady, she must be ripped of her sexuality and objectified because female sexuality is deemed to be dangerous, triggering male castration anxiety. Women’s sexuality, regarded by men, is detrimental to their superiority, as it can manipulate men and defy their rationality as the case of the Redcrosse,Knight and Fraudubio . Male authority is derived from women’s weakness and passivity…

Many people, men and women, around the world have been sexually harassed or even assaulted. To be more exact, a survey taken in 2012 states that about one in five women and one in seventy-one men have reported being raped (Facts). These figures are most likely higher than what is reported because many victims will not speak out for a number of reasons such as fear of being blamed for provoking, fear of the perpetrator assaulting him or her again, or fear of others not believing them. Survivors…

in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion that Romans 1:26-27 actually references specific practices of the goddess cult in ancient Rome. These practices were broken into two separate categories, the first was the male practice of self-castration as a statement of dedication to the goddess, and the second was temple prostitution, which was believed by the women who participated to be an offering to the goddess and to bring the goddess’ good will to them though the practice. Several…

In Her (2013), by Spike Jonze and Vertigo (1958) by Alfred Hitchcock, violence is aestheticized through the use of romance. Scottie and Theodore’s sadistic tendencies are masked by their obsession with love. Scotty and Theodore convey the characteristics of men who are hopelessly in love with the women they are with, but in reality they simply want to control them. Vertigo and Her’s aestheticization of violence and the protagonists’ need for control are emphasized by the fact that both Scottie…

There is no doubting the fact that animals do not have rights in the conventional sense, or in any other sense for that matter. The reason is because they are not moral agents; they cannot do things out of a sense of right or wrong and cannot reason, as opposed to humans. Without reasoning, they are unable to have rights and therefore, are not responsible. Does that mean humans have the right to treat animals badly? Of course not; but that is for humans to decide, because animals cannot decide…

I argue Lady Audley’s portrait is crucial to the movement and culmination of Braddon’s novel. Its symbolic implications are multivalent: as Lynette Felber writes, ‘[the portrait] protests the power and authority of the male gaze; it anatomizes fetishistic desire; and it raises questions about the construction of women and their sexuality in Victorian society’. Structurally, the portrait heralds the fate of Lady Audley by revealing her dual nature, by implicating a significant secret, and by…

The Climax for IM’s identity is seeing the fluidity of the self and identify when he, at first willingly, when he personates Rhineheart. With the simple addition of sunglasses he has a new shell of identity to use. The entire effort to learning the brotherhood ideology disappeared along with the threat of Raz identifying him. When the women come up to him with the barest of encouragement from him she assumes he is the ‘Rhine’. And this theme continues throughout the scene with the addition go…

Auther Asa Berger, in his renowned book entitled “Media Analysis Technique” has discussed critically Sigmund Freud Psychoanalysis with reference of different critics in which Freud’s theory of Psychoanalysis i.e. unconscious, sexuality, The Oedipal complex, Myth, Id, Ego and Superego, symbols, defense mechanisms, dream, condensation and displacement, aggression and guilt have been discussed with practical examples. Let’s explore each psychoanalytical component: A) Unconscious: The paramount…

controls the men by robbing them of their masculinity. When Harding explains a lobotomy to McMurphy, he says, “Frontal-lobe castration. I guess if she can’t cut below the belt she’ll do it above the eyes” (164). With this, a clear line is drawn between sexuality and freedom - and their importance - and between women and lifelessness. Harding implies that lobotomies and castrations are conceptually the same, both taking away independence and power. Nurse Ratched and McMurphy act completely…