Seduction

hera (roman name: juno), wife of zeus and queen of the ancient greek gods, represented the ideal woman and was goddess of marriage and the family. the daughter of the titans cronus and rhea, hera was swallowed after birth by cronus. her siblings Demeter, hades, Poseidon, and Hestia suffered the same fate. however, rhea managed to save zeus, the youngest brother. later zeus rescued his brothers and sisters by giving cronus a potion that caused him to vomit them up. some stories say that hera…

Slip Slop. In the second seduction scene, Mrs. Slip Slop who is almost spent half years of his life, looks like the mother of Joseph Andrews, tries to seduce the young Joseph who is almost twenty one years of age. After knowing the reality and falseness hidden behind her virtuous…

Judith going into the tent of Holofernes and seducing him while he drinks and eventually decapitates him after he falls asleep. During the Renaissance period the depiction of women was a very sexualized and were meant to be paintings that suggested seduction and lust. However, the painting of Judith is the opposite and…

society to make its citizens feel a leader is believable because he is able to exaggerate his own motivations. According to Sennett, leadership on these terms is a form of seduction (1977: 265). This form of governing a large group does not necessarily involve persuasion or intimidation; instead it can be exercised through seduction so that people want to be governed by a single…

of human lives have been defined by patriarchy, a social system influenced by male dominance. In the Dora case this is evident because Freud assumed that there was no way Dora could have actually experienced sexual abuse because she was a woman (“Seduction”). During this time period, it was believed that women were not intelligent enough to know things about their own bodies or sexual interactions. This is an example of that time period’s social construct of gender, which was that men are…

Monteverdi’s operas and connect them with the society on the turn from Renaissance to early modern era, when patriarchal conventions slowly started to lose their impact. According to McClary, in L’Orfeo we can distinguish two different rhetorics, that of seduction and that of lament, which indicate the binaries between male and female representation…

care about the consequences. In the book The Great Gatsby Daisy continues to see Mr. Gatsby even after she knew it was wrong but, her husband Tom Buchanan was also cheating on her. While Edna “Frees herself from the female guilt surrounding sexual seduction that often portrayed in 19th-century fiction”…

“You Are the Best Thing I've Seen” It was around 2003, when I heard for the first time the Madona’s song “America life” I could not realize what would mean the American dream. Nowadays, living in the United States I may say, in a sarcasm mood, the American Dream in my opinion means: professional opportunity, better quality of life and exaggerate consumerism. I would affirm is sold to foreigners the America is the land of the opportunity and based on this statement people around the word…

meet their lovers. The contrast of the first poem is that they are young women only playing at dressing the part using the things that nature around them provides. This playfulness heightens the excitement and seduction with youth and innocence that still achieves the ultimate aim of seduction. The contrast of the second poem is even more stark, the women are not women but in fact ghouls playing at dressing the part using bits of decaying human bodies. The horror and disgust of the reader at the…

Sex and politics is the main topic in the anti-war comedy, The Lysistrata, written by “The father of comedy,” Aristophanes, which first staged in 411 BCE. One may argue that this play is based on feminism, and although it may seem that way, women are actually victims of prejudice who play under the role of using their sexuality to get what they want. Thus, this play accounts of one woman’s mission, Lysistrata, to end the Peloponnesian war by convincing all the women of Greece to stop engaging in…