Seduction of the Innocent

women to navigate in this difficult world. While Beatrice is the one who takes the most advantage of these tools, other women in the play also participate in using these tools in the hopes of bettering their situations. The assumption that women are innocent, naïve, childlike beings can usually be a barrier for women. These presumptions make it nearly impossible for women to accomplish anything because they are thought to be incapable of physical or academic labor. It can, however, be redirected…

star-crossed lovers who have to face many barriers before they can be together. As with many romance novels, throughout the course of the story, the main characters are figures who uphold common gender stereotypes. The heroine, Eddy Carmichael, is an innocent woman who is set up to be independent but ultimately reduced to a damsel in distress. Her love interest, Rhine Fontaine, is a typical male hero. As shown through Eddy and Rhine 's actions and characterization, as well as their eventual…

sinful actions (O’Connor). The quote “Nothing is perfect” could also be implying that things aren’t always as they seem just like when the Bible salesman says, “I hope you don’t think that I believe in that crap!” after he made them believe he was an innocent Godly man…

ambiguous narration, thus people have been continuously pondering for the question that who is actually the guilty person in this incident. In this paper, I argue that David is the rapist and murderer in the Bathsheba Affair, while Bathsheba is the innocent victim taken by the powerful king. In the following paragraphs, I will first argue that David is the…

trying to comprehend the reason behind Stavrogin seducing (to put is lightly) Mayosha I could not define one particular reason but a number of scenarios that intrigued his dark side. For instance, Stavrogin was only drown to Mayosha because of her innocents and how she allowed her mother to abuse her, “She had been screaming at her daughter for the loss of some rag and had even pulled her hair. But when that rag was found under…

There are two ends of the female stereotype spectrum. On one side there is the innocent, weak, and naive. This extreme is represented through the character of Ophelia. On the other end there is the belief that women are nothing but manipulative, selfish, and sexual creatures whom every man should avoid. This extreme is brought to life…

Known as the ‘Russian Byron’, Mikhail Lermontov is revered for his radical interpretation of the Romantic antihero in A Hero of Our Time. He sought to fashion “a portrait built up from the vices of our whole generation” (Lermontov, preface), to create a character who would embody the spirit of the contemporary Russian man. In what would be his only prose work, Lermontov employs traits commonly associated with the Byronic hero as the basis for the character of his protagonist, Pechorin, such as…

between life and death, and of the necessity of both irrational thought as well as science. “Your girls that you all love are mine already”(Stoker 440). In Victorian England, from a social point of view, there existed three categories of women: the innocent virgin, the wife, and the whore. Stoker’s choice of characters and symbols, from vampires and their victims, to marks and symptoms depict such a system. The clear antagonist, Count Dracula, is a sex figure of male domination; a part of…

In early 17th century literature, there are several poems and texts that praise the beauty of carnal passion and the cleverness of seduction, but there is also a whole genre of text that glorifies the platonic love of a friend. Friendship is a powerful and essential aspect to understanding the connection writers have to their community and the way that society affects their work. In particular, Katherine Philips devotes herself to her friends through her writing and often creates Neoplatonic…

beliefs of procreation only. Bram Stoker’s Dracula introduces women in sexual manners during a time where women were prohibited from sexual encounters known as the Victorian Era. A Victorian woman was one of two things a virgin recognized as pure and innocent, or a wife and a mother. The sexual behavior of a Victorian woman was dictated by society because of the fear that if a woman were to have control of her body then she’d gain control of a man too. Women were understood as having no…