Emasculation

women are considered “weak” if they give themselves physically to a man. Women in society are shamed for showing sexuality, while men are congradulated for it. When Nurse Ratched denies the men any sense of her femininity, they are crippled with emasculation. But after Billy Bibbit has relations with Candy, he is praised by the men on the ward and restores his manhood. Billy exited the room with a stride in his step after an eventful night, Chief states,“He looked pleased with his success, as if…

Annotated Bibliography Robert Browning wrote "My Last Duchess” to demonstrate oppression, jealousy, and pride that the speaker (duke of Ferrara) presents when he is talking about his last duchess who he murdered because “she smiled too much.” It is assumed that the Duke keeps the painting of his late wife covered by a curtain so only he can reveal her smile which was just supposed to be for him. At the end of the poem the duke mentions a bronze statue of Neptune taming a sea-horse which suggests…

1914 to 1918 countries and people fought to gain power and glory, but ended up fighting in vain to gain nothing but pain. Many young men were virtually forced to become pawns to solve the problems of a prior generation, enlisting due to fear of emasculation, peer pressure, and for some, the power trip associated with having authority. An insightful demonstration of the motivations of individuals during wartime can be seen through German veteran Erich Remarque’s novel All Quiet…

The Anatomy of Aspirations: How Dreams are Both Motivating and Divisive When people hear the word “dream”, many tend to think of an immaculate desire in the distant future looming over their heads and pushing them through life. However, some tend not to consider the idea that dreams in nature can be far from immaculate or perfect; they can break relationships apart. It's the nature of aspirations to conform to both of these notions. This idea has been explored and worked into many works of…

The Color of Misperception Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is an exceptional piece of literature that explores the African-American community and the American society as a whole. The setting of the novel dates back to 1941 in the town of Lorain, Ohio, and Claudia MacTeer tells the story as an adult. She interacts with a character named Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl who longs to have blonde hair and blue eyes just like Shirley Temple. It is her belief that if she were to become…

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is a fictional novel written by Ken Kesey. It is based in an insane asylum in Oregon around the late 1950’s. The asylum serves many purposes throughout the story and also symbolizes as a safe zone for the patients from the outside world. The half-indian narrator, Chief Bromden, comes from a dysfunctional family where the woman dominates man and greed overcomes love. This imbalance in nature creates confusion within Chief’s mind. For the duration of the story, the…

The term “Asian” was originally used to define and label everyone that was not white, and by definition, the term generalizes people of vastly different backgrounds, histories, languages, and religions all into one incorrect misappropriately defined category. The term Asian itself is referred to as a race, yet a race is associated with biology. If people are of the same race, the may share the same ancestry or have similar physical characteristics, whereas the term ethnicity is used to refer to…

glossed over compared to men’s achievements. A few influential women throughout the years would be Susan B. Anthony, Marie Curie, Rosa Parks, and Margaret Thatcher. Anthony established the National Woman’s Suffrage Association; Curie was a famous chemist and physicist who held quite a few achievements for women, and she also won the Nobel Prize twice. Rosa Parks, an American civil rights leader, known as “The First Lady of Civil Rights” for refusing to give up her seat to a white man.…

A victim is one who is deceived by the dishonesty of others. In the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, many character are lied to and deceived by others. The entire Kingdom of Scotland was brought to ruins by these deceits. The misfortune of the Kingdom can be traced back to one person, Lady Macbeth. Her interactions with Macbeth and her plan to kill the king has brought the Kingdom of Scotland to ruins. Lady Macbeth is not the true victim because of her ambition, villainous nature, and her…

he was okay. According to Claude Pruitt, who wrote “Circling Meaning in Toni Morrison’s ‘Sula,’” Freudian theory suggests that while all the men from the Bottom signify varying degrees of a castration complex, Jude’s is revealed when he “buries emasculation in self pity… all are without power, economically and socially castrated, just as their characters are symbolically castrated” (Pruitt 120). In other words, Jude’s lack of a “manly” job makes him feel less masculine than he wishes. This…