The Naked Man

His story is amplified throughout the entire nation, affecting more than anyone could have ever thought. His stardom, his football career, the murders, the rumors, and the trial, ost people realize who this is by the first sentence. This is Orenthal James Simpson, or mostly know as OJ Simpson. You have seen him on the football field, in moves, in commercials, and in all likelihood, in court. But the better question is: Did he do it? Some of the things that occur through his life may be affected…

Rawlins and John meet an almost enigmatic persona named Jimmy Blevins, these three boys ride towards Rio Grande so that they may all begin their new destinies. McCormac describes this symbolic scene, “They crossed the river under a white quartermoon naked and pale and thin atop their horses” (45). In this almost biblical scene John is given a new and pure beginning. Crossing the water of Rio Grande serves as a symbolic baptism to cleanse his soul while giving him a new start. The bible mentions…

Using the voice and the presence of a witch creates a rebuttal against the recently empowered male. Qualities of a ‘slanderous woman’ suppressed the rise of female empowerment from a patriachial society. Such qualities made her undesirable towards the naked eye. Many of these traditional female characteristics sub-ordiant to men can be seen in the various female figures such as Isabella and Lady Macbeth. By exploring the manipulation of the female voice of Isabella in Middleton’s The Witch and…

Men. They are meant to be strong, tough, confident, masculine. A man is not their true self if they lack any of these qualities. When a man has lost all of these qualities, something is terribly wrong. Chief Bromden, the part Native American narrator of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, written by Ken Kesey, is a patient at a psychiatric hospital in Oregon and has been there for the past ten years. He only suffers from hallucinations, but also pretends to be deaf and dumb. He had always been…

he treatment that a stereotypical woman in the Dark Ages received was controversial because they were treated with deification and adulation, but were not respected as capable members of the human race. Most of the knight’s code of chivalry that they prided themselves on was based on the assumption that women were unable to achieve much on their own, and therefore, men had to accomplish the women’s tasks for them. The characters Morgan le Faye, Lady Bercilak, and Queen Guenevere in Sir Gawain…

Imagine being handcuffed, to demonstrate a magic trick, by a man you thought you trusted and in a blink of an eye his intentions change and you end up with a rope around your throat. This was what John Wayne Gacy did to his many victims. John Wayne Gacy seemed to be a respected business man with many friends in high places, but his life would be an open book after his last murder of a boy by the name of Robert Piest. Wounded by his childhood, Gacy was taught to hide unusual yearning for the…

Francis whom he was presumably able to see for free before she was forced to become a whore. Both texts also touch upon the importance of procreation and in Renaissance Britain the ability to father sons was one of the most important attribute that a man could have. In a Chaste Maid, most of story focusses on the inability of several characters to have their own children, thereby emasculating them.…

Dominican culture, similar to many other cultures, have traditional gender roles that separated the patterns of personality traits. There are general expectations of roles from both males and females within the Dominican Republic. In a novel called “The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz. The novel begins describing what is called a fuku, which people believe to be a curse, and how that same curse has haunted the family of the De Leon through generations starting with Belicia’s…

MENOPAUSE ( POEMS) Azeez Akinwumi SESAN FOREWORD A gloss over a poetry collection titled Menopause by Azeez Akinwumi Sesan could suggest “transvestism”; but a closer study reveals the transsexual trend of feminism as a literary and political movement. The passion with which the poet handles the gender issues raised seems more obsessing than that of many female writers. The discourse on the excruciating experience of the female gender in a chauvinistic based culture like…

The lights are blinding, as she opens up her eyes to this new world. Her ears hear familiar voices that can now be paired to faces she had never seen before this moment. What a wonderful moment this is. She does not quite fully comprehend what is going on, or who these individuals are that surround her, but she has a strange sense of being alive. Quickly this sense dissipates. Hurried hands move her from person to person. The new strange entity, whose arms she has landed in, sounds most…