Fall of Man

In “The Open Boat”, it is instantly recognizable that the men aboard the dinghy have no control over every aspect their situation. The crew steer the boat and row the oars, however as the men squeeze inside this tiny boat, they fall victim to naturalism. Naturalism says, mother nature is truly in control of the vessel, having no feelings of compassion or hatred towards it. Nature’s divine and uncharismatic power, is seen as nature hurls wave after wave toward the dinghy, sinks the captain’s ship…

commercial push for the continued growth of their son, however the mothers want their “little boy” back. I feel that they purposefully did this in attempts to get the fathers to believe that Old Spice can be the push that their sons need to become a man and grow up. There was a scene in which the father was destroying his son’s former toys, while the mother did everything to save them. In another scene which showed the son on a date, the mother was in the fish tank holding tightly to a toy that…

where the odds are stacked against someone so much, that they have the right to give up? Cormac McCarthy would say no. In his novel The Road, McCarthy tells the story of a man and his son slogging across the post-apocalyptic wasteland of the United States. In this ashen wasteland, morality is almost completely absent, with the man and the boy being some of the only characters the reader sees who have even an ounce of goodness within them. The others are murderers and thieves, who would stop at…

look ordinary, but to drink it a snake can become a dragon. Zhang looks into the water and sees his reflection. A young youth with clear green eyes, wearing very expensive cloths. If people were to see his features they would instantly fall in love with him be it man or women.…

by William Shakespeare, is a play in which one scene in particular determines the fate of the main character, Macbeth. The manipulation scene, Act 1 Scene 7, is a key turning point in the character of Macbeth as we see him change from a noble man to a man who considers the murder of his own King. This change in Macbeth is due to no fault other than the corrupting nature of his ambition and also his distorted view of masculinity. Shakespeare successfully uses characterisation, key scene and…

to survive. And while a man may have a crude attitude, he can be just as romantic when he needs to be without the use of stalking tactics. That is the same for the man who appears to be purely masculine as he can have a softer, caring side as well. Outer appearances and judgements on just attitude alone are the reason that these stereotypes even exist. Such as someone in powerful looking business attire will not always fall into the “unsuitable suitor” category of a “rich man with superficial…

privilege, eliciting deference, and resisting exploitation.” These acts usually vary by culture and region. They also vary on situation, like Norman’s situation where he is an un-masculine boy getting dropped into a situation that requires him to “man up” to be efficient and productive at his job. Throughout the film, Norman completes a number of war related manhood acts on his journey from a male to a…

John Collier, builds this brief story between a young man, Alan Austen, who is deeply in love and wants to possess his sweetheart entirely. Alan Austen then meets an unnamed old man who produces a love potion. Alan has no concern for the consequences that the potion may have on his sweetheart. He really just wants his sweetheart, Diana, to be deeply in love with him. Austen, with selfish and unreal expectations about love, has come to this old man to buy a love potion so that his sweetheart,…

What if you get stranded on an island with just a bunch of little kids, and out of nowhere a dead parachutist lands on the island? The dead parachutist may symbolize violence towards the kids. He could also be indicated as the beast; the boys are thinking that there is a thing called the beast and while they are looking for the beast they find the parachutist which makes them believe that he is the beast. The parachutist does symbolize something other than what the beast and the Lord of the…

a result of the hierarchy of hegemonic masculinity that is embedded into society through the media (Chu). Hegemonic masculinity can be defined as a particular way of being for men, where a man holds attributes that guarantee him the title of the “ideal man”, it is also the most normalised way of being a man (Consalvo 30). For a woman to be rid of her femininity, although also can hold negative connotations, it is incomparable. To be masculinised automatically refers to a status of power. To be…