The Corrupting Power of Women The portrayal of women in Of Mice and Men is limited and unflattering. We learn early on that Lennie and George are on the run from the previous ranch where they worked, due to encountering trouble there with a woman. Misunderstanding Lennie’s love of soft things, a woman accused him of rape for touching her dress. George berates Lennie for his behavior, but is convinced that women are always the cause of such trouble. Their enticing sexuality, he believes, tempts men to behave in ways they would otherwise not.
I don’t like this place.’’ (Giaspell 744). This is clear evidence that the house had a weird vibe. Miss Emily was also isolated from the town she lived in. ‘’ set on what once had been our most selected street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily’s house was left’’ (Faulkner 865).
By this unacceptable and scurrilous treatment of parents, it is found to be hard getting these individuals to therapy (Sperry 1995). Individuals experience intense discomfort in emotionally close relationships. There are odd patterns of thinking happening in their minds and the outsiders such as normal people see them as being weird, crazy or even retarded. Individuals can find themselves persistently accusing their girlfriend/boyfriend or spouse of cheating. They will question their partner’s whereabouts, faithfulness, and intentions (Tomb 1992).
Kipps is completely alone on the causeway, ‘I had never been quite so alone, nor felt quite so small and insignificant’, and even ‘the few last gulls went flying home’. This creates tension by emphasising the fact that there is no one to help or protect him if anything goes wrong. Hill uses senses to create tension and suspense. When the sea fret rolled in Kipps was blinded, which made him vulnerable to not only the woman in black, but the even more likely danger of walking off of the causeway and into the marsh. The mist ‘confused’ and ‘teased’ him, making things seem unreal and unstable which would make him more scared as anything could be near him but he can’t see it.
It seems unfair, as she loves her child but she knew the consequences of having a child outside marriage, so knew what would happen to her and her son. Arthur Kipps is kept in the dark about the WiB, and is haunted by her. He is in an isolated place, he is a stranger to the village and isolated in the knowledge of the truth. He is unable to talk to anyone about seeing the WiB as if he does, he may seem mad himself. The WiB is a ghost; no-one can see her.
Andrea does not feel at home at the sea. Andrea does not like the sea for unlike the forest the sea is unpredictable and empty. Evidence to show that was her father only went knee deep in the water while her mother went in completely. Anouther aspect that made her dislike womanhood more was that the sea was unpredictable for everything was hidden under the water, and everything was constantly moving. Andrea was also under a lot of influence from other characters.
‘Pretending that such a sexist institution can bring ‘women’s rights’ to Afghanistan is a sickening piece of hypocrisy’ (Army’s rotten sexism: a product of training killers 2011). In addition, men that work in the army are exposed to violence, brutality, intense pain and witnessing of death very often. This may be the cause of the men acting in such barbaric ways as they need some sort of distraction of the problems that they may find difficult to face in the real world and turn to women as a form of amusement. Additionally, in modern societies, some women tend to expose themselves more due to their femininity. This can cause misunderstandings in a workplace and men may take this up as an invitation.
When we are primarily introduced to her we can sense she may cause trouble among the men. She is described as having “full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up” it is clear that she craves attention and the only way she sees she is able to receive it is by acting shamelessly around the men. She is unhappy in her marriage and although she flirts with the other men what she wants is not an affair or a relationship but companionship. Loneliness is a theme often associated with the migrant workers in America during the 1930s, but Curely’s wife is in fact the person who experiences it most. She is the only woman on the ranch, which makes her different from the rest.
If you lived on the ranch with no one you really knew you would get lonely too. These three people would be the worst people to be friends with because of there actions and there behavior. The most isolated person in the book was"Crooks".I say this because he does not hangout with anyone unless he has to. Crooks distance himself from everyone on the ranch because of his skin color. Crooks does not associate with many people which causes him not to have many friends.
Her title, "Elliot Rodger was a misogynist -- but is that all he was?," implies that she is attempting to figure out if he really was a misogynist or something more complex, but her real goal is to convince her readers that he was indeed nothing more than a misogynist acting out the violence that our misogynistic culture encourages; in addition to ignoring the hateful words Rodger directed at men, she also glossed over the deaths of his male roommates, his obviously troubled mental state, and his blatant racism. Hadley Freeman's 2014 Guardian article, "Elliot Rodger was a misogynist -- but is that all he was? ", therefore, is a perfect example of slanted