She writes, “She laid her hands on me,/then washed out my mouth/with Ivory soap. This/was to purify, she said,/and cleanse your lying tongue.” These few lines make me think that she’s trying to describe white as the right thing. She does this again in the second stanza when she says, “I could act like my homemade dresses come straight out of the window at Maison Blanche.” This phrase makes us think that dresses from the “White House” are better than others. I think the overall message of this little girl is that she used to think that white was better. Clothes were
Curley’s wife is portrayed as being a whore – but this is only due to the way she dresses, her provocative ways and the way she acts around men, as if she is aware of her femininity. This could suggest that she is only like this because she is bored, like it is something to do – something interesting for a change. She is constantly trying to get people to notice her. But, because of Lennie’s purity and innocence, he doesn’t see her in the way other men do – a sexual object. When Steinbeck quotes “And because she had confided in him, she moved closer to Lennie and sat beside him”, it is clear to the audience that Curley’s Wife is using her sexuality as an object to create some sort of excitement for herself.
The word love, in this context is used as a mask to disguise the lustful sensations expirienced between Tita and Pedro. The author further objectifies women by vividly explaining Getrudis at that moment; “The perfection of her pure virginal body contrasted with the passion, the lust that leapt from her eyes, from her every pore”. Esquivel does so by diregarding Getrudis’s personal and intellectual abilities or capabilities and rendering her licentious and impious due to her sexually explicit encounter with Juan. As the story unfolds, we discover that Getrudis is a mulatto which is a degradatory term used to described a child born from one white parent and one black parent. Therefore revealing the racial stereotype depicted in the
Holden once again notices Sunny’s humane nature when she says, “ like fun you are”, instead of saying a more bitter response (Salinger pg.94). Holden repeatedly said he felt “sad”, thinking of Sunny “going in a sore and buying” the green dress, who would unexpectedly and sadly be used for prostitution (Salinger pg. 95) As Holden got more personal with Sunny, she revealed her actions before “going to work”. Holden begins to imagine Sunny in her day hours, thinking of her as a person instead of a whore. As Holden got closer to sex he tried to be more societal with her, to forbear sexual relations , and to talk to her instead: “I said I’d pay you for coming and all” (Salinger pg.
I know you can do it.” Well, then. Closing her eyes before she spontaneously orgasmed on the spot, Kay let out a moan. She lost her sense of self after that, too far gone in her passion to notice anything except the sweet taste of Thalia, the springiness of her curls under Kay’s fingers, the hot cream between her legs. The sounds of their pleasure rocketed Kay forward, the hot, hard shaft of Nils entering her nearly undoing her. Thalia’s touch on her shoulder brought her back.
In The Yellow Wallpaper, the more the protagonist looks at the wallpaper, the more she realizes her submissiveness of the womankind and how she tries to find their freedom along with hers, is nicely depicted through her mental struggle. “The front pattern does move --and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over” (Gilman 7), conveys how the narrator gradually becomes more powerful understanding her position and it further confirms her struggle against “front pattern” of male dominance. She starts pulling off the wallpaper as she wants to free the trapped woman and this depicts how capable she is to fight against her own suppression as well.
It consists of the nude Venus and Cupid. The painting shows Cupid, stung by bees, complaining to mother, Venus, of the pain by small bees. Lucas had his friend, Melanchton, translate the text to him and gave him Venus’ response to her child as,”you are too small and your arrows are much more painful to victims.” The translation of the history allowed him to paint Venus and Cupid with strong sense of conflict. He showed Venus’ pale white body stand out in an attractive pose. Lucas’ vision of this painting defined his interests in the human body.
Curley’s wife is first introduced when candy describes her to George. Candy says ‘she got the eye’ which implies she spends her time staring at every man she encounters. Following that he also calls her a ‘tart’ indicating that she is a woman that is sexually suggestive. Candy is a genuinely kind and truthful person and calls everyone a ‘hell of a nice fella’ so when he dislikes her we also disapprove of her. Furthermore Steinbeck emphasises this impression of her by her physical appearance in the novel.
Coming to the end of the story, Sammy had become completely infatuated with Queenie. She was placed on a pedestal in Sammy’s mind. Irony becomes apparent in Sammy’s act to stand up for the girls when manager, Lengel reprimands them for their inappropriate attire, “The girls, and who'd blame them, are in a hurry to get out, so I say "I quit" to Lengel quick enough for them to hear, hoping they'll stop and watch me, their unsuspected hero.”
He describes her as having a supple and sinuous figure by likening her body to that of a weasel's, emphasizing her sexual attractiveness. The comparison of Alison to a weasel hints that she has a sly nature. After the use of the simile of the weasel, Chaucer goes on to describe Alison's clothing, depicting her girdle that is made of silk and says the color of it is like the color of the morning milk. Chaucer says that her skirt has embroidery all over and that also on her collar there is embroidery inside and out. The strings of the white cap on her head are like her collar, made of