Seduction of the Innocent

An innocent young woman is seduced by her female friend “breathing so fast that her dress rose and fell with the tumultuous respiration. It was like the ardour of a lover” and “her hot lips travelled along my cheek in kisses; and she would whisper, almost in…

these archetype, so much so that it would be difficult to rank the accuracy of one over the other. In one way, she acts as the “temptress”, goading Coraline into staying in the other world with outfits, toys, and food, rather than any sort of sexual seduction that’s typical of that particular archetype (Eiland). In some ways the Other Mother resembles the “Wicked Witch” as well, seeing as he ultimate goal is to use her powers to cause Coraline’s demise, but unlike a normal…

Though gay rights have only recently been legally approved nation-wide, discussions on gender awareness, definitions, and queerness are not new. Whether these topics have been around for thousands of years or just in the last hundred, they have been sighted in many ways over time. One such way is in pop culture: the accumulation of materialistic things, such as fashion, songs, and objects, and the non-materialistic things, such as ideas, beliefs, and values, of a population. Society and pop…

was not in control of earlier in the story. She is the one who controls all the encounters with Beauplairsir and she wants herself to be perceived. She even realizes when they are writing letter to each other, he prefers when women are sensible and innocent. Although Beauplaisir was able to find pity and comfort the protagonist’s third transformation, the widow; he is still writing to Fantomina and wants to see her again. There is even a switch in the power dynamic where Beauplaisir is signing…

relationships in Shakespeare's Macbeth and Bronte's Wuthering Heights are presented through sexism, jealousy, and betrayal. Women who have sovereignty are remembered for what they’ve done and how they got their power. “The power of women is located in seduction and manipulation” (Thomas, 91) but that's not always true. Men should be in control over the household, but don't be arrogant with their title. Lady Macbeth didn't believe that, she believed she should have control over her husband.…

Macbeth’s Appetite for Self-Destruction: How Macbeth’s Different Murders led to his own Demise In Macbeth, Macbeth, like many other characters in Shakespeare’s other plays, is a tragic hero. He begins as a normal war hero, fighting many battles and making his king, Duncan, and the rest of his kingdom very proud. However, throughout the play, starting with Macbeth talking with the witches, he started his slow mental decline that led to paranoia and loss of sanity. Macbeth murdered Duncan and…

In American society a woman’s body is sexualized in the media. Beauty is an image that everyone strives for. There isn’t an exact definitions of beauty, it can be external and internal. What one sees as beauty another can view as ugly. Normally, women in ads/ TV are portrayed as sex symbols. There goals is to get as many buyers to indulge in a certain product and project an image that if you consume what I have you’ll look and feel beautiful. Over the course of class we have read many myths…

the setting of this story, Liz was unable to decipher her feelings or even comprehend them. When Liz is in fact raped, she is still very confused and unsure what to make of what just happened. Lisa Tyler goes on to say, “Hemingway depicts her as innocent and naive; it is therefore quite possible she assumes that her experience with Jim is typical of adult sexual relations- that it is ordinary, everyday sexual intercourse” (Tyler 6). Even after…

The Legend of Medea and Hypsipyle In the legend of Hypsipyle and Medea, Chaucer relates to these two women equally, seeing that they were treated shamefully by the same man, Jason. The narrator again refers his audience to his source: "Lat hym go rede Argonautycon, / For he wole telle a tale long ynogh" (1457-1458). Chaucer reports that Jason married Hypsipyle and had two children with her, what in fact turns out to be a mere fiction. In fact, he leaves her, and Hypsipyle writes him a letter…

Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene is widely recognized as one of the greatest epic poems of the Elizabethan age. It may be also commonly assumed that Spenser’s poetry represents an archetypal convention of gender in the era. Though Spenser plays off the feminine conventions linking the figure of power, Queen Elizabeth with specific characters, for example, Una in Book I, traditional patterns of feminine stereotypes are still continually penetrated in Renaissance and Spenser’s portrayal of…