Correspondingly, he implies that the people who continue to practice poverty only do so in an obsession to uphold subordinate religious morals. With this in mind, Undershaft takes it upon himself to maintain his wealth as a justifiable attempt to prevent poverty from casting a grim shadow upon society. His cause is achieved through means not only by the manipulation of the working class, but also through exploiting man’s inherent need to war over morality and religion. Undershaft’s complete faith in the creation and power of weaponry only proves the fallacy in believing that God
The character Peter Keating embodies altruism and only feels he shouldn’t exist for his own sake but the services that he receives from others reason for existing is for fame and approval for others. Peter Keating lives off of his good looks, success and people around him. To have resources to only justify his own existence, self- sacrifice is only his highest right of responsibility, benefit, and importance. Peter will do whatever it takes to succeed in this world even if it means stealing, lying, or Killing. "He had forgotten his first building, and the fear and doubt of its birth.
Assess the fashion industry using the feminist perspective Feminists argue that that in society men oppress women and that women do not have equal rights when compared to men, they argue that the family serves the needs of patriarchy and that we reside in a patriarchal society where males are the dominate sex. Feminists take a critical view on most things in society but a main one being fashion. Feminism itself simplifies down to equality. It is shown to be not about attacking men but improving society and having equal chances between both sexes. It states that many women’s focus is on her wardrobe so they can impress the opposite sex as they feel useless if they fail to impress, they also argue that fashion is a more female dominated area, they show that most of the top fashion designers are male ruled and that Radical Feminists such as Germaine Greer believe that all key societies (including fashion) have been found on patriarchy (ruled by men).
Pope's gender ideologies deflate the power, intelligence and beauty of women while supporting man's violence and belittling of women. The symbolism of the lock of hair can be viewed with two different types of gender criticism, one that defies the patriarchy and one that feeds into the power of the patriarch. In Ellen Pollak's essay, "Rereading The Rape of the Lock: Pope and the Paradox of Female Power," Pollak maintains that the lock of hair is a phallic symbol and therefore it is cut off to reduce Belinda to femininity. The symbolic loss of the Belle's much-coveted virginity is realized in the form of a castration or literal cutting off of that body part of her associated most strongly with those 'masculine' attributes of the coquette - her power, skill, and pride (Singh 472). Julie Kristeva, author of "Women's Time" while not accepting Pollak's theory of castration believes that castration is unique only to men: "castration results in the creation of a sense of separation which is symbolized by the penis"(Singh 472).
Nature A prominent philosopher named Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) wrote "So many authors have hastily concluded that man is naturally cruel, and requires a regular system of police to be reclaimed; whereas nothing can be more gentle than him in his primitive state, when placed by nature at an equal distance from the stupidity of brutes and the pernicious good sense of civilized man..." This, as you can see, really redefines the notion of human "servitude" to the whims (these not always being the most viable) of societal fixations. This Blank State refers to the premise that the brain is born with the blankness of a white piece of paper with the presumed ability to reform and contuse to the appropriate "figure", whatever that may be. It is the very underlying of the statement that the body and mind are separable entities that don't affect each other in the way that many people perceive them to. Remember that time during the seventh grade in which you were bullied profusely? Well theoretically that one continued action gave forth a section of your behavior that generally perpetuates anger and contempt for the public.
Sarah Wolf Veritas Symposium Rosato 15 September 2014 Brave New World and Values in Human Life Aldous Huxley uses Brave New World to emphasize the importance of individualism in human life. Individualism is when a single person puts his own needs above the needs of the group. In a dystopian society that believes “every one belongs to everyone else (Huxley 43)”, standing out and being one’s own person are considered taboo. The society’s organized sexual promiscuity helps discourage monogamous relationships because “It’s such horribly bad form to go on and on like this with one man (Huxley 41).” Ideals such as monogamy or solidarity are so outrageous to this society that a person risks punishment for feeling the need for or wanting “alone time”, as Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson were sent to an island for expressing their differences from the society. Having freedom of choice is not a necessity to the Brave New World “world state”.
Nevertheless, it seems that he could not escape the dominant philosophy of his own society that women were the weaker sex. The question is why? Why did More believe that giving more rights and power to women would contribute to the creation of a perfect society? Also, why, yet giving women more rights and power than they usually would be given, he still maintained the patriarchal values of the sixteenth century? Even in the perfect Utopian world of Thomas More, the social status of women, the role they played in society and the general way they were treated, were influenced by the dominant view of the society at that time and by his own personal values.
Basically, functionalists regard the body as a major organ in the body of society. Murdock believed that the nuclear family (a family consisting of a mother, a father and their children) was universal. He claimed that the family performed 4 major functions in society. These were sexual, because marriage was viewed as the only acceptable sexual relationship, reproducing, because it is vital to produce children, economic, because there has to be an element of someone providing for our needs, and socialisation, because it is vital that children learn about culture, norms and values. Criticisms of Murdock would be that he is seen as an ethnocentric, which means based on his own culture.
Aylmer is blinded by ambition and is determined to remove the birthmark from his wife’s cheek. Aylmer submerges himself into science trying to find a way to correct what he says is a visible mark of earthly imperfection. Aylmer’s love for science rivals his love for Georgiana which causes him to be blinded. While talking with Georgiana about the birthmark he says “No dearest Georgiana, you came so nearly perfect from the hand of nature, that this slightest possible defect, which we hesitate whether to term a defect or a beauty, shocks me as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection (Hawthorne 314).” By doing so he tries to play the role of god and take into his own hands something he says is imperfect and make it perfect with science these kinds of things shouldn’t be controlled my mere humans. In doing so Aylmer matches his scientific abilities against nature itself and in the end nature won taking away from the earth the closest thing to perfection Georgiana.
Life Without Love or Independence? In Jane Eyre and Hard Times, women are portrayed in a negative light throughout their respected novels; females are represented as being second class citizens to their male counterparts, and are unable to have a thought of their own. The traditional views of Victorian era gender roles are both enforced through the outside portrayal of the women that do not fit the mold of the ideal Victorian women yet is also subverted by the feelings the women feel when they left their bonds, or the consequences of living in the suffering of the gender misogamy they endure over their lifestyle. By expressing the men through traditional Victorian masculine characteristics such as being powerful and dominant to their meek and loyal female counterparts, the novels establish early on the barrier that the protagonists struggle with merely being female. In the novels, women are treated like second class citizens when compared to men and are expected to be content with this Victorian idea of patriarchal domination.