Seduction of the Innocent

Tacitus, a senator who eventually rose to be governor of the Roman province of Asia, wrote several works, including ones on Roman history, in which he criticized the rule of the emperors. He himself had some experience on Rome's frontier with the Germans, as well as access to earlier accounts written by the Romans, some of which is now lost. His De Germania (Concerning Germany) is the fullest early written account of the Germanic people to survive. According to De Germania, the were many…

The previous stories of the Nights are a good point to begin our discussion of blackness and racial discrimination in the stories. While The Arabian Nights presents stories about the Islamic empire, it foists stories of slavery and blackness. Unlike the Atlantic trade slaves, slaves in the Arabian Nights “inhabit a different history from plantation slaves, and do not fit easily into abolitionist discourse: they were more frequently domestic or military.”(Slavery, blackness) In The Arabian Nights…

Blood Simple is the first movie directed by the Coen brothers. A more contemporary noir, with a knowing awareness of the origins of the genre, blood simple saw film noir get down and dirty again, and not just in the bedroom (Wood. 2014). The use of violence and crime in this neo noir film utterly correlates with the classic noir. Majority of the Coen brother’ films feature a crime that seldom goes right. Blood Simple features a jealous Saloon owner, Marty who hires a divorce detective, Visser to…

upon, such as in Boo Radley and Atticus Finch's case. The characters Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird convey Lee's message that the ignorance of prejudice can affect anyone, lead to an unfair society, and harm innocent people. Tom Robinson is an African American citizen living in Maycomb County, Alabama, convicted of rape by the Ewells, simply…

Temple touches on themes such as the mobility of a military family in the ever-changing world as well as that of marrying for money or self-fulfilling needs alone. Yet, some of the greatest themes such as the shrewdness of a sexually driven male, seduction, as well as inner contentment point out the flaws of society in regards to sexism that still hold true to our present American culture. One of the first themes that will stick…

In Chapter Three of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster uses examples of novels in order to explain the difference between literal vampirism, such as Dracula, and symbolic vampirism, such as Daisy Miller. Throughout the initial pages of the chapter, Foster keeps a focus on literal vampirism, an extremely cliché concept. An attractive man laced with evil, bites and leaves a mark on a pure woman, taking away her innocence. Literal vampirism is a non-stop cycle of life. One…

he did not lack in being controversial. In my personal opinion, I would say that he is probably one of the MOST controversial psychologists. He divulged in the world of, what he called, the seduction theory. Where he discovered that children who had repressed memories of sexual abuse were preconditions for hysteria and neurosis. He believed that through dream interpretation, sexual and aggressive childhood would come to light. Freud also went…

known for being innocent, so they do not pose as a threat to many. Therefore, this makes parents ignorant of the dangers that the children can actually cause. The story goes on, “Another…

change during the latter half of the seventeenth century. Children came to be seen as pure, innocent and in need of guidance whilst the fairy tale came to be seen as ‘childlike’ and unsophisticated (Capena, ‘Literary’, 39). Perrault was interested in the educational power of the fairy tale and was the first to start aiming a book at children (Aries, 19. Zipes, 16.). However is Perrault’s fairy tales more innocent? Perrault’s version of the…

Moral panics are when a sort of tipping point in society that the sense of threat reaches a breaking point. The conditions that can decide if a situation or objects are a moral panic are if they have diversity of agencies and interest groups, comprehensible story, kernel of truth, media magnification, politico-moral entrepreneurs, professional interest groups, and historical context of conflict. Some examples of moral panics includes comic books, video games, and the Satanic Panic. The moral…