Alanna Rodrick LITR 202-A1 G. Sotis 17th April‚ 2014 The Role of Eros in The Kreutzer Sonata and Death in Venice The interplay of love and sexuality within humanity has been explored for thousands of years. This theme has shaped and continues to shape mankind on a daily basis‚ so it is not surprising that this topic can be found in literature of every era dating from the present to ancient times. Specifically within European literature of the 18th and 19th century‚ Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer
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Authors often use their works to convey criticisms of society. Such works of literature do not directly criticize specific real people or events. They do however present a sense of the writer’s concern with issues of social injustice and misguided values. Two strong examples of social criticism through literature are Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In both novels the writers project their social criticisms to the reader through the use of characterization
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Note: Some names have been changed to protect the anonymity of the persons involved. Fake nose‚ fake lips‚ fake bust… Can anything stay natural these days? Surgeons have apparently achieved to change every part of the body and they ain’t going to stop. Indeed‚ another form of surgery has become widespread around the world: hymenoplasty. Morocco hasn’t escape from that trend. But why in the world a woman would want to have her hymen −the tissue that covers the external part of the vagina and is broken
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How Media portrays Femininity Whenever we watch Television or consume any other media we get confronted with female stereotypes. Thus the media influences our view of the world and often even determine our view of the world. One particular example is the definition of femininity and portrayal of women in the media. So Whatever the role‚ televisions‚ films and popular magazines are full of images of women and girls who are typically white and desperately thin. The media portrays a very stereotypical
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How would you feel if everyday from 9 to 5 you hear‚ fix me a cup of coffee‚ secretary; file these papers‚ secretary; schedule a meeting‚ secretary. This chant reminds me of the one that Cinderella’s stepmother and sisters where saying when they wanted the house clean and to prevent this young lady from attending the ball to meet her prince charming. Although that story was fictional‚ Marge Piercy managed to change the tune from a Cinderella’s chant to The Secretary Chant. She describes the duties
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ENG 101 Through the Eyes of Modern Society The intriguing documentary of Killing Us Softly 4 by Jean Kilbourne‚ provides for a controversial topic of the basis of advertising in the media and how it affects women directly and indirectly. Consequently‚ harsh results are perceived from these advertisements. Of all the “factual” statements made by Jean Kilbourne during this documentary‚ many fallacies arose. The media leaves us extremely vulnerable to assimilating ourselves to all aspects of
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dominated by men‚ which is the reason why most of the music videos today portrays women in a sexual way which means that there’s nothing else to women than the physical appearance. As the viewer’s become so familiarized with sexual activity and the objectification of women‚ these things become norms. Looking at Diced Pineapples – Rick Ross music video‚ the video is constructed around a notion of
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Pimpin ’‚ where the idea is that you get to “slap your hoes‚pimp the streets‚ kill the competition‚ and ally with your friends to take the pimp world by storm.” She also refers to song lyrics that glorify and promote sexual exploitations and the objectification of women. In line with Kotrla ’s thinking‚ children ’s clothing exists‚ a particular type of pants come to mind that has words such as “juicy” on the back-side‚ and “pink” on the front side. The idea here is that young children are being commodified
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the following paintings by; Titian’s‚ Venus of Urbino. 1538‚ Edouard Manet’s‚ Olympia. 1863 and Lucian Freud’s Naked Portrait (Kate Moss). 2002 by looking at “The Idealised Body” in relation to the issues of “gaze‚ looked-at-ness‚ voyeurism‚ objectification as well as notion of the woman as an object of pleasure for a male viewer by the male artist. These works are all painted on different times‚ Titians painting was painted during Renaissance period as in the spring of 1538 titian was commissioned
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about the dialogues of multiple characters and is‚ in my opinion‚ what normalizes the racism of that time. While Huck did live in the south where the use of that word was accepted‚ Twain’s inclusion of the word proves that his story aids in the objectification of slaves and blacks as human beings. African American critic‚ AnneMarie Hamlin concludes that “By page four and my first ‘nigger‚’ I realized that maybe this is not what I signed up for; by page six and seven ‘niggers’ later‚ I realize that I
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