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if the emotions that one had no control of were their fault from the beginning. As if it were sheer impudence to question any of this‚ and even more so to question any man of the cloth when you were born with a body dissimilar to theirs. A woman‚ a queer‚ a depressed psycho: these were all of the things that I was told God hated me for. These things were what I was told that I should hate others for‚ and while the Holy Bible tells one to love thy neighbor‚ those who hold it close tend to have an affinity
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abstain from believing that love is only correct amongst the male and female gender. In Fact‚ through the characters actions we witness that once someone is in love‚ it blinds them from their reality forcing them to neglect clear signs of “unusual/queer” behavior. Both plays share a homologous theme that: love makes people crazy and makes them do crazy things. Most of the actors featured in twelfth night challenge the viewer’s understanding of gender. In fact‚ a lot of the characteristics endowed
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According to Doty‚ queerness is a mass culture reception practice. It is “inclusive of” rather than “instead of”; an expression as well as a movement‚ that is mainly resistant to straight culture on a wide range of positions. It describes a range of impulses and cultural expression through various communities such as straights‚ bisexuals and transsexuals. In the form of queerness‚ sexual desires constituting queerness are central to expression of lesbian and gay cultural identities; it is not bound
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young recruits to face the harsh reality of the battlefield in war. And when I say eyes right I want to hear those eyeballs click and the gentle pitter-patter of falling dandruff you there what’s the matter why are you looking at me are you a queer? look to your front if you had one more brain it’d be lonely what are you laughing at you in the back row with the unsightly fat between your elephant ears open that drain you call a mind and listen remember first the cockpit drill when you go
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The Horse Whisperer Among all of the devices beautifully used in this poem by Frost‚ personification is the one I want to focus on in this essay. My little horse must think it queer (Stanza 2‚ Line 1) The idea of the horse thinking about the rider ’s intentions and the fact that rider pays attention to what his little horse must think‚ shows the relationship between the rider and his only alive companion he has in this journey. Although we can consider the whole poem as an interior monologue
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expectations for a class is always difficult‚ but I normally really enjoy literature and culture courses‚ as I have taken quite a few minority culture courses. I am interested in understanding‚ applying‚ and using Queer and feminist theory‚ or rather being able to view the world through the Queer and/or Feminist lens. I have worked with some theories before‚ including Formalism‚ Marxist Criticism‚ Feminist Criticism‚ New Historicism‚ and Ecocriticism‚ so the idea of literary theory is not foreign to me
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day. The morale of some of these individuals became disillusioned because the reality sets in that he or she will never get out of the neighborhood that is comprised of poverty‚ crime‚ and lack of jobs for him or her. Another theory is the Bell’s Queer Ladder of Mobility Theory. Bell’s thinking was that Italians had a harder way of achieving wealth‚ power‚ and political influence. (Lyman‚ Potter‚
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Queer Theory Analysis on I’m Tired of the Seduction of Boys Equality has always been part of the struggles of the gay community and through gay/lesbian/queer literature‚ they are able to express and justify their ideals. In the poem‚ the main character or the narrator’s identity is vague. It was not made clear if the narrator is a girl or a boy‚ thus giving a clear light about the “humanness’ of a person; that it does not matter what your sexual preference is‚ you’re still a human being that
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza – Gloria E. Anzaldúa In describing a state-of-being in the notorious lands in-between – a space often described as suitable for only the stigmatized (Goffman 1963)‚ the wandering gender-immigrant (Lorber 1994)‚ and the political excommunicated‚ that banished dissident-‚ Gloria Anzaldúa is doing a lot of work. For example‚ by noting that separation from traditional places of origins (whether by choice or by force) does not mean having to detach from that which
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