The Virgin by Kerima Polotan The title of Kerima Polotan’s "The Virgin" gives us the subject-virginity‚ female virginity‚ a cherished value of Filipino Male culture. By presenting its protagonist as "victim" rather than heroine of this value system‚ the text subverts it. Reflecting on her virginal state‚ Miss Mijares does so "with a mixture of shame and bitterness and guilt" The story’s eroticism is heightened by the lyrical‚ almost cadenced language. (The eroticism is quite explicit for it’s
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The Virgin Kerima Polotan-Tuvera’s “The Virgin” is a short story that is centered on two characters namely Miss Mijares and The Carpenter. The title “The Virgin” reflects the subject virginity which is an important and cherished value for Filipinos. A Filipina should be proud to have maintained her virginity but in the case of the thirty-four-year-old Miss Mijares‚ she is ashamed of it. In her thirty-four years of existence‚ she had never been committed in a relationship. When she was younger
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constant reminder to her mother of the man that raped her and as a result of this the mother puts Sophie through a Haitian tradition called “Testing”. She would do this to make sure that Sophie did not lose her virginity. In Haitian culture it is encouraged to value a women’s virtue and virginity. Her mother would test her vagina often to make sure she was still a virgin. These test would leave a scar on Sophie and her conscious even after she gets married later on in the novel. The further in the novel
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is the role that MEN show greater respect for. In fact‚ this role fulfills many if not all of a man’s fantasy’s. Women who fill this category are virgins‚ therefore pure‚ just like La Virgen‚ and we all know how much men enjoy taking a woman’s virginity. Women who fill this category are also dominated by men‚ in this case their fathers and as for La Virgen‚ God is known to have power over her. Another great quality that a virgin holds‚ according to men‚ is that she is very submissive‚ which is exactly
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first three sections of the novel in order to highlight some of these new literary devices. Each fragment represents the corresponding narrator point of view about the event that marked the beginnig of the decline of the Compson family-Caddy ’s virginity loss. The first fragment comes from the section "April 7th‚ 1928" where gradually we find out about the Compson tragedy. The narrator- Benjy a youngest son of the family‚ also a thirty-three year man afflicted by idiocy-has no concept of time or
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Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is an anthology that describes the journeys and life lessons of several characters. However‚ it isn’t just an entertaining collection of stories‚ instead it is a clear representation of the society Chaucer was a part of. Society during this time primarily focused on religion‚ specifically Christianity. Christianity which can be seen as a sexist religion‚ generally affected women and the roles they played. Two of Chaucer’s character’s discuss and touch on this
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others and that is what “does her life destroy”. The “dark love” also suggests feelings or jealousy‚ aggression and possessiveness. The worm‚ or the male may of forced himself onto the rose‚ the female. The “crimson joy” suggests the loss of virginity‚ the colour crimson could also symbolise blood‚ therefore symbolising death‚ the destruction of life‚ like the life of the rose in the poem‚ that is said to be destroyed. The “howling storm” could represent the feeling the rose has towards what appears
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neck down.” (Act 3 scene 4 lines 188-198) Whether they’ve had sex or not‚ that’s a lot of pressure to put on a young woman. And it’s too much for Ophelia. When she goes mad‚ she sings a bawdy song about a maiden who is tricked into losing her virginity with a false promise of marriage (4.5.7)—part of the reason why many literary critics see Ophelia’s madness as a result of patriarchal pressure and abuse.
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Genetics of Drosophila Lab Report: The test of heredity in fruit flies In my testings with breeding the fruit flies‚ I learned that the purpose of breeding them was to test how genetics pass from generation to generation‚ also known as heredity. We attempted to breed the flies and get them as close to a 9:3:3:1 ratio as possible. This would lead to an acceptable trait ratio. My hypothesis was that if we were to breed the flies in a stable environment‚ the most common fly (or the fly with the highest
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Filipino Home Altars Filipinos have forever been said to be religious people – in fact‚ too religious‚ if one might say. It is one characteristic of Filipinos that describes their identity. Try entering houses of Filipinos you know‚ you would notice there would always be a special place for their altars. They always reserve a certain part in their houses not always necessarily as a “place of worship” but sometimes just for the traditional way of being religious. Altars are first introduced
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