This Charming Man

money. Our lead man however does not want that and cannot afford that anyways. He is looking for a love potion. The old man tells him all these great things this love potion can do but when he asked the price, he says it is only one dollar. This peculiar story is one best analyzed using feminist criticism. It is interesting how the story begins in the way that it is describing our lead man Alan Austen. The very first sentence starts with “Alan Austen, as nervous…

The vertical alignment of the text and the word “skinny” is used for this purpose. The shape of the “Skinny” Pepsi can mainly remind us of bodies of models that are tall and skinny. What is significant about the profile shot is that it is mainly used in order to represent Sofia Vergara as a very skinny woman. There is a…

After reading the reading for this week, I started to examine my life through the lenses of gender. Just like stated in the book Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us, by Kate Bornstein, I never got asked what I felt like or what I wanted to be in regards to gender, because at birth I was assigned a gender. Therefore, everything that I had access to or ever did revolved around gender roles. Furthermore, as mentioned by Catherine G. Valentine, in The Prism of Gender, we are taught that…

Gun.” Quite honestly, this analysis seems to be completely based upon the fact that it was written by a woman. However, Emily Dickinson was a bit of a recluse and her poetry was not discovered till after her death. “Giving rise to much ambiguity, both homosexual and heterosexual elements pervade her work. In numerous poems, it is impossible to determine the genders and sexual identities of Dickinson's speakers and addressees” (Henneberg, 1995). In that respect perchance this poem is not just…

befriends doctor Alec Harvey, only to find out that her friendship with him will turn into something more. Their weekly visits made them realize that their friendship meant something more when they started to develop feelings and emotions for each other. This unexpected emotional fulfillment causes trouble for them, seeing…

have addressed equality. Although what these theorists have said is not one-hundred percent true this is the majority. Article 1: Deborah Tannen’s You Just Don’t Understand— Asymmetries: Women and Men Talking At Cross- purposes. This article talks about the differences between men and women. In regards to troubles, women have a tendency to take on the issues a man has because she wants to comfort him. A man, on the other hand, wants to express his opinion and simply let it go. When a woman…

Hobart Repertory Theatre’s theatrical production of The Elephant Man (by playwright Bernard Pomerance) was a dramatic play shown at the Playhouse Theatre on a traditional proscenium stage. Petr Divis revived the true story of Joseph Merrick, (referred to as John Merrick and played by Jon Lenthall) and joined hands with his performers to display a stellar feat of acting to the public. The idiom “Don’t judge a book by its cover “could hardly be more strikingly epitomised than in the revelation of…

to today’s society. A major topic that constantly looms in the world and social media today is “What defines a man?”. To be a man, do you have to be a certain age, have a family, or a certain look, or have a major career? While reading the stories of Madame Bovary and Hedda Gabler, the constant theme is the wife cheating or lying behind the husbands back. While most men are subject to this is a relationship, both of these men have different situations that end up having the same ending. Charles…

Ariel’s, the heroine’s, fascination with this white prince whom she doesn’t even know or has ever spoken to, is not unlike that of an obsessed schoolgirl as she caresses artifacts from his unreachable world and sings of her desires to be a part of him. Her idolization of this untouchable, gorgeous and rich ‘princely’ star, shoots him up to celebrity status in Ariel’s mind as well as the audience’s (Sells,…

and it makes them think they need a prince charming to save them. Humans learn to act by imitating others, the behavior we “[take] for granted is shaped by social structures” (Anderson). If these gender boxes are rooted since a young age, it is no surprise they stick with people for the rest of their lives. Gender socialization exists even at gyms. Young girls are brought up having barbies and wearing dresses; meanwhile, boys learn to “take it like a man”. Society tells woman they cannot lift…