Seduction

witness terrors and spectacles. Lewis provides these spectacles through the manipulation of women or through feminine themes. The power of Matilda over Ambrosio is testament to this fact. The key occurrence that marks Matilda as a Dark Hero is her seduction of…

The film opens up with a flashback to 1462, where Dracula’s story as a Romanian knight is told. This flashback actually connects back to the book where Jonathan Harker writes in his journal that Dracula tells him about his family’s history. This includes the Szekelys fight and defeat of the Turks. But the film’s flashback also adds in the love story motif between Dracula and Elisabeta that is not present in the novel. This romance travels throughout the entire of the film, where Mina turns into…

Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson is framed as a seduction novel, but by today’s standards the novel’s events would have been deemed purely to her circumstances. Then again, isn’t seduction a circumstance? Madam LaRue succumbs to and even embraces sexual immorality as a lifestyle, intentionally entertaining the temptations of forbidden fruit. Charlotte on the other hand is deceived into believing the same temptations won’t defile her, because she is promised marriage. However, when this promise…

In the poem Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain becomes a guest at Lord Bertilak’s castle. His stay comes as a brief rest from his journey to meet with the Green Knight. During his time in the castle, Gawain is coaxed into a pact between himself and Lord Bertilak. Throughout three days, Bertilak would go out to hunt and Gawain would stay in the castle, and at the end of each day, the two would exchange whatever they gained. Unbeknownst to him, the pact was a means of testing his true character,…

For my research paper, I will be examining gender relationships in seventeenth century France as portrayed by The Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens. My current impressions from this painting was that women were expected to be submissive or need to be controlled. While I was unable to find any secondary sources that specifically discussed The Massacre of the Innocents, I was able to find two articles discussing other works by Rubens and how they related to French culture. The first…

High school students do not need to be reading about any form of seduction even if it strengthens one's persuasive skills. As young women, teenage girls are being taught to stand up for themselves, and to be able to say no when they mean it. Teenage boys need to be taught how to respect women, and how to be able to accept…

article state, belly dancing has health benefits. The health benefits were improved posture, muscle toning, weight loss, preparation for childbirth, stress reduction, and aiding digestion (Student, n.d.). The belly dancing was associate with seduction, but seduction dance was conduct in modern day (Aleenah, n.d.). Th article reported three theories on belly dancing origin. Belly dancing was religious dance and performed during fertility rituals by temple priestesses (Aleenah, n.d.). The…

In the two stories, “The seduction of Safety, on Campus and beyond” by Roxane Gay and “Silly student Protesters Have It Wrong: “Safe Space” are Incompatible with a University” by Charles C.W. Cooke are both different in values and priorities. In Gay’s articles she believes that there is a chance for people to have “safe space” where they are able to be better in their own way. In Cooke article he think the opposite that there should be no change that they need to maintain focused on the real…

within the early mythologies is vastly different. Women were barely represented within them and often uses only as fleeting and unimportant characters. However, within two stories there is more of a female presence, where woman is a representation of seduction and change. The Epic of Gilgamesh and “Genesis” are two of the most well-known stories documenting the beginning of man. The relationship of Adam and Eve, from “Genesis,” is similar to that of Enkidu and Shamhat the harlot in the Epic of…

Odysseus captive and sleeps with him for 9 years. Temptress’ easily manipulate Odysseus, like when Circe coaxes him to “mount [her] bed and mix in the magic work of love”, enticing him “till a year ha[s] run its course” (10.370-371,515). Circe uses seduction to hinder Odysseus’ way home, by tempting him for a year. When Odysseus’ crew passes the Sirens, who easily lure Odysseus with their enchanting voice, he commands his men to “set [him] free”(12.210) even though Odysseus knows the outcome of…