Desire is a multifaceted word with different formal meanings and varied effects on people. Effects are derived from diverse gender‚ community‚ age‚ background experiences with the word‚ and its different connotations. The most common implication is linked to sexuality because of its influence on self worth in our current American society. The formal definition of desirable is "worth having" but people can also define it as being attractive‚ pleasing‚ enviable‚ popular‚ advantageous‚ or arousing desire
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Repressed desires will be satisfied in some way shape or form. An outlet will be found‚ and deeper darker forces will arise. Dr. Jekyll’s deeper darker forces come forth after years of his persona not acceptable in the eyes of others being repressed because of the pain that desires cause. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella‚ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ the repression of Dr. Jekyll’s alter ego eats away at him; for the repression of this other being can no longer be caged. Through
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Blanche‚ Stella’s older sister‚ until recently a high school English teacher in Laurel‚ Mississippi. She arrives in New Orleans a loquacious‚ witty‚ arrogant‚ fragile‚ and ultimately crumbling figure. Blanche once was married to and passionately in love with a tortured young man. He killed himself after she discovered his homosexuality‚ and she has suffered from guilt and regret ever since. Blanche watched parents and relatives‚ all the old guard‚ die off‚ and then had to endure foreclosure on the
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The Human Person and Sexual Desire Human beings have a natural tendency to violate the natural laws of the universe‚ such as destroying rainforests or spilling oil into the ocean. Our treatment of sexual activity is similar in regards to us violating the purpose of sexual activity‚ which is reproduction. When God created the earth‚ God’s purpose was for humans to “be fruitful and multiply”. Nowhere in there did God say anything about engaging in sex for the purpose of pleasure. However‚ human
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the 21st century. We all can feel how sin pollutes our life. The sin of sexual desire hits us all at our core and tries to break down the barriers of our faith. Sexual desire itself is not sinful‚ when used in marriage. However‚ when sexual desire causes catastrophic effects and pollutes our everyday living‚ it becomes dangerously sinful. Which is gratified in these three epics. Consequently‚ the sin of sexual desire in Gilgamesh‚ the Iliad and Aeneid ultimately leads to the humiliation of
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Nostalgia‚ the desire to live in the past and a feeling that mainly every person experiences. To go back to the days where a person was innocent and didn’t care about the actions they performed‚ no matter how silly and foolish the actions were. Mainly‚ nostalgia is something that is believe to have a positive meaning where a person recalls good memories. However‚ nostalgia can consume you and cause a negative aspect. Tony Hoagland’s book Sweet Ruins tells about the nostalgia that a character feels
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"Suppressed Desires" by Susan Glaspell is a two-scene play about a woman‚ Henrietta‚ who is obsessed with dream interpretation and seems unable to stop over-analyzing the dreams of her husband‚ Stephen‚ and Henrietta’s unsophisticated sister‚ Mabel. Mabel knows so little about psychoanalysis that she think it is "something about war‚" though she has seen a psychiatrist‚ Dr. Russell‚ the same psychiatrist who cares for Stephen. Henrietta respects psychoanalysis until eventually‚ her mind changes about
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The desire for freedom is a similar aspect of the female protagonists Louise Mallard‚ Mathilde Loisel‚ and Emily Grierson.</b></i><br><br>In Kate Chopin’s‚ "The Story of an Hour‚" Guy DE Maupassant’s‚ "The Necklace‚" and William Faulkner’s‚ "A Rose for Emily‚" the female protagonist’s have a desire for freedom. The stories are about three women living in patriarchal societies. Each character longs for freedom in a different way‚ but because of the men in their lives they are unable to make
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Ogulcan Bayol‚ 11-H In the play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ written by Tennessee Williams‚ Blanche the protagonist who is mentally fragile and depends on her sister’s help to overcome various adversities as her husband’s passing away and her paying many debts decides to move to New Orleans‚ where her sister lives. Throughout the play‚ Blanche‚ who is from a southern part called Laurel‚ strives to conform to society’s norms and attempts to find a man to marry her; but she is incapable of feeling
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Desire. It burns like an uncontainable fire‚ engulfing those in its path. Society bows down to desire for the individuals in society are driven by the desire to succeed‚ driven by the hope that they can be better than whom they were made to be. In a society in which men are merely pawns in a larger game of war‚ it is the desire to be special that keeps them going. But when desire takes over the brain‚ it provides the illusion of perfection. It turns a person against the world‚ for they believe they
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