Seduction

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…

has been reviewed, criticized and analyzed endlessly. The poem of the two sisters Laura and Lizzie and their encounters with the seductive goblin merchants has been viewed as a story about moral temptation, children’s greed, and sexual desire and seduction. Mostly viewed as fantasy or fairy tale, this poem can also be interpreted as a Gothic story with its underlying tones of moral deprivation, the tormenting cries of the goblin merchants’ “come buy, come buy”, the stark contrasts between night…

According to Pausanias’s argument Common and Celestial are distinct forms of Love, the latter being higher, more intelligible and honorable form of love. Pausanias identifies Common Love as less worthy of praise and he dedicates his speech towards praising Celestial Love and explaining what is honorable and what is not. He contrasts ‘good’ and ‘bad’ forms of Love regardless of which since neither God can be wrong. Pausanias mentions societal rules affect the forms of love present in places such…

Published in 1972 Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour analyzes the architecture of the commercial strip in Las Vegas as an object of communication and persuasion. The architecture along the strip acts as sign rather than space with the intentions of creating an architectural object capable of seducing and luring the spectator at mid glance. Venturi translated the Las Vegas strip as a form of architecture that relied solely on iconicity as…

In Linda Williams’s article “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess”, she focuses on three film genres that have a certain power to excite, yet lack of aesthetic elements. Three film genres she discusses are pornography, horror, and melodramas. The reason she concentrates on these genres is because she believes that these films provoke primitive emotions (pleasure, fear, pain), which manipulate the body at a sensational level. In these films, there is the absence of proper aesthetic distance…

In his second essay in the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche discusses the creditor/debtor relationship, the resulting bad conscience and most importantly the sovereign individual, “liberated again from morality of custom, autonomous and supra moral” (Nietzsche 59). In fact, Nietzsche further emphasizes that a sovereign person has a “power over oneself and over fate” (Nietzsche 60). I find Nietzsche’s description of this superhuman, sovereign state of mind both interesting and perplexing. I…

short, both Janet and Freud believed that the hysterical is a psychological response to an external trauma. Freud in the beginning linked hysteria to sexual trauma, or the seduction theory. He believed that in adulthood certain events can provoke symptoms similar to ‘those of hysteria’ (pp. 32). Freud later abandoned the seduction theory and embraced the fantasy hypothesis and he believed that “hysteria was already sick from the sexual before encountering the abuse that would give rise to…

The story of Venus and Adonis is one of a thwarted seduction by the classical goddess of love. Venus retells the story of her greatest conquest, Mars, the god of war, in lines 95-114 of Venus and Adonis. Mars is the epitome of masculinity and Venus describes his transformation from this pinnacle of war into her personal slave. By telling Adonis of Mars’s transformation, Venus is both boasting and trying to show Adonis there is no shame in succumbing to her feminine wiles. Venus directly…

less physical (but much more destructive) violence is shown through her treatment of the weaker characters in the book, illustrating Steinbeck's moral of how violence has many different motivators. The portrayal of Curley's wife as an object of seduction leads the readers to conclude that the men on the ranch only think of her as a cause of trouble and distance themselves from her presence, not even giving her a name. Her desperate attempts for attention are coyly hidden behind flirtatious airs…

The art works displayed in Strange Currencies, in my opinion proposed a question to the audience not an answer. The artworks voiced strong messages about the catastrophic decade Mexico City endured during the 1990s. Poverty, economic crisis, social upheaval, political corruption, and a rise in violence threatened Mexico City’s culture during this time. In my opinion, the artworks were composed to make a statement about the economic and social issues toward people that did not live there. The…