Pleasure

early 1980s. In her article, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Laura Mulvey explains how “cinema satisfies a primordial wish for pleasurable looking” (17) by focusing “attention on the human form” (17). Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” music video exemplifies Laura Mulvey’s theories of filmic pleasure because of its scopophilic nature and its portrayal of the relationship between men and women. The music video for “Anaconda” shows many cases where there is pleasure derived from looking and…

A poem exhibits the poet’s art of words. The unique integration of words make us feel and see things from a peculiar perspective. Similarly, dancers communicate different emotions of human life such as love and anger to the audience through dance performances. Interestingly, different forms of art such as poetry, dance and music all have a way of creating a connection between the audience and the presenters. Poet William Carlos Williams creates this sense of unification with the readers through…

Mill believes that the reason for human life is to pursue happiness; he claims that if all humans live for is the pursuit of happiness, it makes sense to only pay attention to the outcomes since they are what constitutes how much pleasure or pain the people involved receive, and therefore their level of happiness. Since happiness is an essential aspect of life, he sees it as a way to gauge what is moral by what brings the greatest amount of happiness altogether, not to an individual…

his portrait ages. He becomes obsessed with pleasure over morality. His portrait shows who he is really becoming as a person, even if you can’t see it from the outside. Pride is considered one of the original and most serious of the deadly sins. It is the excessive belief in one's own abilities, which interferes with individual recognition of God. Also known as Vanity, this is the sin is which all others arise. In the novel, Lord Henry believes his pleasure should be before anything else, and…

others and instead becoming a user. The passage shows that Marian consuming food does not mean she is back to being normal or how she was before. Marian instead has gone to the opposite extreme, where consuming is something she delights and takes pleasure in. A cake in the form of a cadaver symbolizes a person. I believe it shows her taking control over her life by eating the cadaver because she is now making the decisions to consume or not. She is becoming the worst form of a consumer, a…

Marvell is reasoning that sexual pleasure is one of the best ways to combat the dread of impending death. Partaking in sexual, and other, pleasures while one is able is essential to avoiding regret and sadness towards the end of life. Compare this to Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” that reminds young virgins that are hesitant to engage in sexual activity that life is too short to hesitate in partaking in life’s finest pleasures. Herrick tells the virgins “Old Time is…

Because it’s a indicate of life within life to be someone who doesn 't depend on their nonsense instinct such as a sexual pleasure. If both male and female must need the sex, some people may say it can be wrong to seduce someone only for getting the pleasure. They have the potential to postpone pleasure and if you cannot wait, then that is the weakest because postponing pleasure is part of our reasoning potential. Without moral, won’t leave the things you are expected to do. Do what is right and…

because all individuals share this ability to think rationally. Kant’s respect for human dignity and reason is a benefit of his theory. Encouraging people to think rationally rather than giving into their impulses brought about by feelings of pain and pleasure, makes for a more considerate and less impulsive society overall. Lastly, kantian ethics offers a simple and easy to follow method of evaluating morality. Instead of focusing on consequences which are unpredictable, kantian ethics…

goes into deep detail when explaining the basis of happiness involving pleasures. Taylor felt that most people were not interested in finding out what happiness truly is because in their minds there is already an idea of what it entails. Because people are so unwilling to examine their own misconception of happiness, they often look to pleasures as a form of happiness. They may seem the same as so many links happiness and pleasures together but they are ultimately different. Happiness is…

described his “I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements” (43). Dr. Jekyll knows that inside of him and Mr. Hyde there is two dual natures in humanity controlling the same body, similar to Freud’s theories. He realizes this dilemma at a young age and he dreams that someday he would be able to separate the Id and the Superego into different bodies so that he could satisfy his evil pleasures, yet at the blink of an eye change…