This made me question the reasoning behind why Voltaire might have chosen to depict women in this manner. The women in "Candide" have all been victims of sexual exploitation. The three main female characters Cunegonde, the old woman, and Paquette are all raped, forced into sexual slavery, or both. These women circumstances cause the male characters to view them as inferior, weak, and jadish. In chapter four, Candide finds out that Cunegonde had been killed.
Document 6 is an excerpt from Rudyard Kipling’s The White Man’s Burden. This is a poem that shows how Europeans wanted to spread and imperialize European’s to non-Europeans. Nationalism was still spreading from Western Europe. Subject nationalities in Eastern Europe, Middle East, and North Africa threatened to break away. The Ottoman Empire was slowly crumbling meanwhile
Carol Ann Duffy describes Medusa as a bitter woman, who has been betrayed by the man she loved. The poet creates the reader’s reaction to medusa’s character through a direst address to the reader. Rhetorical questions like ‘Are you terrified?’ and ‘Wasn’t I beautiful?’ bring the reader unto immediate contact with Medusa. Furthermore commands like ‘Be terrified’ and ‘Look at me now’ are used to build fear and allow the reader o experience her rage. This is just one method used to create the reader’s reaction to Medusa.
Discussion: George Santayana said in his book, Reason in Common Sense, "Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it." This quote was also used by Winston Churchill and various other historical persons. The West was once thought of just as a place where the sun sets, but in reality it means a lot more. Western civilization has been developed by the combining of very different cultures. This mixing of cultures has been done through trade, more wars than can be counted and social interactions.
Medea, the protagonist of Robinson Jeffers' play of the same name, is a vengeful termagant, stricken with grief and wanting nothing but to vindicate Jason's deeds. To her credit, though, she is quite wily, and in possession of one of the most impressive acumen ever given to a character of her type. So deep is her animosity towards Jason that she goes to such lengths as parricide (killing her children, who are merely "pawns of her agony") to extract revenge on her former husband. She does not stop there, though. She despoils him not only of two children, but also of a wife, a father-in-law, and a kingdom.
Compare similarities and differences between the Spanish Umayyad and the Abbasid rule in Bagdad In this paper I will compare the two empires. I would like to do this case study because I am curious about the coexistence between two dynasties with a history like this is possible? I will do this to see if I can find some systematically lineament between the two empires, or did they not have so big impact on each other? It is important to find out if it some equality in the Islamic empires. In the form of government the Abbasids and the Umayyad have many similarities like a centralized govern, both the empires removes the divide between Arabian people and people who is not Arabs.
Throughout the play the character of Macbeth selects unethical ways of climbing the social and royal hierarchy and ultimately causes chaos. Through the murder of
One noticeable tendency of the men in Othellowas their negligence to constantly refer to the women as “whores”. Throughout the play Othello is led to believe on several occasions that Desdemona is being unfaithful to him, and out of fear of her unfaithful deeds refers to her as a “whore” (Act 3 scene 3) a “subtle whore” (Act 4 scene 2) as well as a “cunning whore” (Act 4 scene 2). Furthermore, at the end of the play when Emilia reveals Iago’s role in the events that had just occurred, he lashesback out of anger referring to her as a “villainous whore”. Although there is no distinct evidence that these women are guilty of any inappropriate form of sexual conduct, they are nonetheless harshly accused. It is quite evident that as the male society was quickly falling apart, they have no other option other than to vent their anger by categorizing all females as whores.
In some respects, this revision follows the lead of historian William Appleman Williams who developed the notion of an American informal empire, growing out of nineteenth-century "Manifest Destiny," aggressive protection of free trade and open markets, and finally, into direct confrontation with the old empires of Europe in the twentieth century. [1] Bender's view is slightly different, emphasizing the very long history of American engagement with European Empires--the successful American Revolution was, after all, partly a consequence of the enmity of France and Britain. As Bender concludes: the "American way of empire was even presented as anti-imperialism because it guaranteed openness, in contrast to the exclusivity of the old empires" (p. 233). This statement is an important argument because it links the visionary perspectives of Thomas Jefferson, for example, to the much later engagement of the United States with European colonial empires. It also illustrates an essential point, which is the moral center of the work.
Brian Hampton Imperialism In the late nineteenth century a new issue sparked debate within the country. Imperialism was very controversial, with pro-imperialists and anti-imperialists both making strong arguments. The end of the Spanish-American War marked a new chapter in American history. With Spain relinquishing their territories in the west, new territory was up for the taking. Part of the reason for the Spanish American war was to liberate their colonies so they could be self-governed.