When Winston writes “Down with Big Brother” (753), he knows that “every record of…his one-time existence would be denied and then forgotten” (753). Winston holds the belief that the Party attempts to control everyone and dispose of the existence of disobedient citizens, and his belief leads him to rebel against the Party. As a result, the Party carefully watches him. In addition to Winston, Julia becomes an outsider because of her belief that individuals should sexually rebel and stay alive. By having sex to rebel against the mind-controlling Youth Movement’s talks about pro-creational sex, Julia goes against the Party because “sexual privation induces hysteria…and could be transformed into war-fever” (822).
Her boisterousness and hostility is epitomised in the stage direction [She strikes him]. This indicates that Katherina employs physical abuse as a self defense mechanism against Petruchio. Such violent behavior was classed as shrew-like and highly unorthodox in the Elizabethan Era, particularly towards a male suitor of a high social class. Thus, Katherina challenges the values of courtship and marriage, in a way that is relevant to her society. Correspondingly, in 10 Things I Hate About You, Kat rebels against the social expectations of the permeating values of courtship and dating.
Medieval women are typically considered to be young beautiful ladies who are damsels in distress, awaiting their knight to come rescue them. “The Canterbury Tales” reveals that this notion is far from the truth. Refuting this idea in the novel is The Wife of Bath. She is overtly manipulative by using her exuding sexuality. Her husbands, all five of them were teased with sex, but they had to provide luxuries that she desperately craved for.
Iago’s murder of Emilia could also come from the general hatred of women that he displays. Emilia can be seen as a cover up to Iago’s true sexuality. When Iago tells Othello, “I am yours favour” it sets up the idea of Iago having homosexual feelings for Othello, these words sounding like a wedding vow. He certainly seems to take great pleasure in preventing Othello from enjoying marital happiness with Desdemona by framing her to be seen as unfaithful to Othello also he expresses his love for Othello frequently and effusively, for example; "…I lay with Cassio lately…. In sleep I heard him say, "Sweet Desdemona, Let us be wary, let us hide our loves!"
Poem Analysis: “Porphyria’s Lover” Like many Victorian writers, Browning was trying to explore the boundaries of sensuality in his work. How is it that society considers the beauty of the female body to be immoral whole never questioning the morality of language’s sensuality – a sensuality often most manifested in poetry? Why does society see both sex and violence as transgressive? What is the relationship between the two? Which is “worse”?
After a brief and passionate love affair with a woman named Lana, two jealous male acquaintances discover Brandon is anatomically female, and brutally rape and kill him for this “unnatural” behaviour (Pierce 1999). His brave performance of masculinity and his ability to remain faithful to his true identity contradicts Western society’s explicit gender norms. Although Western society equates sex to gender, through this intense rendition of Brandon’s life, viewers come to realize that gender is socially constructed, informed by cultural practice that is highly variable and far from universal (Brzuzy et al. 2012: 407). There is a deeper, more complex understanding of gender that can be recognized through the existence of supernumerary or third gendered individuals who transgress the gender binary and do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth (Eyre and Pollack 2011: 212).
The family's rich friend Rajat Kapoor, has been found guilty of raping Aditi’s cousin when her cousin was a child, the wedding planner has a secret love with the maid and so on. All of these complex human relationships make this whole story seem very authentic. It leaves us with deep thoughts about different cultures and different attitude about social class. One thing that intrigued me so much was the different attitudes on sex or emotion between different classes in India. In the movie, we learn that the wedding planner is a poor and unsophisticated person who is from the low class.
Sex is ruined by her rapist of a step-father and her forceful bland sex with her husband. Shug helps Celie discover her body and the fun loving part of sex. In the beginning of the
I wanted to have you all to myself. Seen as a sin by people in Victorian society this is why they condemned Wilde. Nevertheless, this may not be homosexuality and just may be his dedication towards his friend. Also, Dorian was going to marry Sibyl and there have been suggestions that he has had sexual relationships with other women. Murder - Lord Henry's influence.
Modern/urban cultures seemingly exploit the use of narcotics and alcohol, members solicitously engage in acts like theft and robbery, and have popularized sexual relationships with multiple partners. Because of the latter, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has spiraled out of control as the public is ignorant. In instances like this culture is unarguably a driver of the HIV epidemic since the individuals who count themselves as part of these cultures are mostly arrogant, think themselves untouchable, disregard the rules (seeing as they regard themselves above the law), and habitually confer amid one another for the reason that they believe they are family, even though it’s not by blood. Since most individuals are characteristically impartial to the consequences, despite high-risk behaviour involving multiple partners and inconsistent use of condoms, none of them seem to realize that the activities in which they