The Naked Man

socially constructed roles as men…” (Plain and Sellers) This notion takes shape in Robertson Davies’s 1970 novel, Fifth Business. The novel presents an interesting debate over whether or not it is a feminist text since it was written by a non-feminist man. However, Fifth Business was authored during the second wave of feminism, a prominent movement which focused heavily on gynocriticism, defined as a form of feminist literary criticism that “seeks to appropriate female literacy” (O’Connor), and…

In an Iron Man 2 movie cover found on the Amazon website, there are four people on the poster. Specifically, there are two men and two women. The men are positioned above the women and are dressed in suits. Both women appear to be wearing tight, form-fitting clothes. While the men are wearing sharp suits that seem to emphasizes their size. The women’s clothes seems to be used to play up their beauty, while the men’s’ seems to be to enhance their powerful look. The background is mostly black with…

The concept of a nuclear or “traditional” family is presented throughout this film as we observe Lester Burnham’s internal struggle with his role in the family. The audience is introduced to both the internal and external points of view regarding Burnham’s family structure which frequently represents itself as idealistic to those peering in--yet, we can clearly see a strong underlying sense of discord beneath the surface. For example, Carolyn Burnham represents herself as the doting mother, wife…

It is first established when they cross paths with an old man who says, “I live like an animal. You don’t want to know the things I’ve eaten” (172). Although the man does not directly declare that he has resorted to cannibalism, it is implied in his statement. While wandering through the woods, the father and son also encounter a small group of people that are…

character, present themselves as the very stereotypical man. Russ is the predictable party boy, who is out just to hook up with women and Latrell is trying to hook up with Tiffany. They end up drugging each other, while attempting to drug the ladies. The next morning they wake up naked in bed together. They both panic and decide never bring up what happened again. Both being dominant males, they did not want to admit that they were with another man. This would affect the way they view their…

had a lasting impression on society since early forms of entertainment. Over time, the media has developed a cultural standard and universal definition of what it means to be a man and the relevance of masculinity. In the film The Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort fulfills the definition of the quintessential macho man. His unethical behavior in muting feminism and devaluing the woman has a direct correlation to his increased value in an oversexed lifestyle and materialism. While masculinity…

The Road, a post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy, follows the journey of survival of the Man and the Boy in a burnt world covered in ash. To escape the incoming cold weather, they decide to head down south to the coast. With nothing but a pistol, a cart of supplies, and each other, they must cope with hunger, thirst, and the dangers of the land. Along the way, they experience close encounters with bands of cannibals who either will try to enslave or kill them. Throughout the novel, the son,…

rule to preserve the principle of ethic. The bad guys eat people but the good guys don’t. Throughout the story, the protagonists consistently try to keep this moral principle to be “good guys” even though somehow they lose all faiths: “if he [the man] is not the word of God God never spoke” (McCarthy…

Most people think that men can not get sexually assaulted, but it is pretty common to hear about male victims of sexual assault, but not as common as hearing about ladies getting sexually assaulted. If a person ever heard about a men getting sexually assaulted you probably think about prison or if the male is homosexual; that can be the case, but actually most male victims get sexually assaulted by ladies. The actual definition of sexual assault is” the sexual exploitation, forcible penetration,…

Earlier within the novel, the father strips the blanket from a corpse to ensure that they will be warm. However, when the father dies, the boy does not want to just leave him. "Can we cover him with one of the blankets?" (McCarthy 240). He asks a man. The boy leaves him wrapped in a warm blanket, regardless of the desperate situation he is in. "I 'll talk to you every day," he whispers. "And I won 't forget. No matter what." (McCarthy 240). The boy is aware that the only reason he has survived…