Seduction

There have been countless relationships throughout the mythological era. The question that comes to mind is that were these relationships, from the sexual part of it, consensual. When a god or goddess seduced a mortal, was the mortal a willing participant engaging in a love affair or was the experience a rape, or sexual violation of a weaker, or inferior person. “The sheer amount of rape in classical myth is staggering, and modern retellings tend to omit or romanticize it” (Morales 2007). In…

to her power and success as ruler of Egypt. Regardless of whether she really was incredibly beautiful or more average, Cleopatra still convinced two of the most powerful men at the time to be her lovers. She could have achieved this through sheer seduction and opportunistic use of her beauty, or she could have simply used her intellect to endear herself to the men who mattered. As Tyledesley states, Cleopatra was above all an astute politician who attempted to resist the growing Roman Kingdom by…

Originally, the murder of King Duncan was not going to take until Lady Macbeth persuades her husband into performing this terrible deed. This seduction is done through only one conversation in which she threatens, “…I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out had I so sworn as you have done to this”. With a quick pathetic agreement…

For this essay a Dolce Gabbana advert, Bell Hooks, Melissa Steyn and Mikki van Zyl readings will be used to explain heteronomativity and rape culture in modern society. The essay will be highlighting and explainign the meanings of characterstics assocaited with men and women. According to Steyn and van Zyl (2009:3) heteronormativity is defined as relating to a society that promotes heterosexuality as or preferred sexual orientation. The definition is based on the idea that there are only two…

Censorship was in its full regulatory glory in the 1940s, with the Production Code Administration (or the PCA) carefully reviewing whether or not films met certain guidelines which were listed in the Production Code. One example of censorship under the Production Code is the film Black Narcissus, made in 1947, which follows an order of Anglican nuns’ acclimation to helping a remote village in the Himalayas. The Production Code, created by the Roman Catholic Church and enforced by the PCA, found…

Remember that scene from Dr. Dolittle? Where Maya cuts her cute little introduction to Bo and quickly changes her name? "Maya Delores Haynes" she says instead of 'Maya Dolittle'. That is every parent's nightmare, that their kid will grow up having to hide, or change the names that they have so lovingly given them. And although Maya's was a case of a last name with too much weight, children today are beginning to carry a burden in place of a name. In a world today where it's difficult to not…

wholeheartedly that he is a Christian when she accepts his invitation to go for a walk in the woods with him with plans to seduce him. During their walk they find a barn and climb into a hayloft to enjoy an intimate moment. However, her plan of seduction falls apart when Hulga discovers Manley is full of hypocrisy. After some passionate kissing, and after the removal of both her glasses and her prosthetic leg, “[he] took one of [the Bibles] out and opened the cover of it. It was hollow and…

In composing Hero and Leander, Marlowe primarily used Musaeus Grammaticus’s version of the myth, as well as “epistles XVIII and XIX of [Ovid’s] Heroides” as his source material (Keach 86). Like Shakespeare, Marlowe reimagines this classical narrative about love and desire by infusing it with more aggression and sexual conflict. However, the most notable difference is that Marlowe’s poem does not end with the death or “blood” of the titular lovers foreshadowed in the opening (I. 1), as Marlowe…

Examining Indira Goswami’s story “Sanskara” or “The Offspring” this paper will explore the disabilities and functionalities of region specific caste system in India. As it analyses the complex nuances of marginality in terms of caste, it also reveals the complementary nature of caste and class in certain cases as Indira Goswami has demonstrated, that leads to unique identity formation at multiple levels. In this Story Damayanti’s course of actions heightens the fact how the age old discourse of…

Exploring how sexuality is depicted in some of Picasso’s paintings is an intriguing process that entails a close consideration of Picasso’s biography in order to assess the extent to which such a phenomenon or concept figures in the artist’s painting. The process of assessment is believed to require consideration of some of Picasso’s paintings such as that of Les Demoiselles D’avignon in order to determine whether Picasso’s perception of women is affected by certain life experiences that he…