However one could also argue that Larkin seems to justify violence against women by suggesting that access to women is something men have been unfairly deprived of. This becomes evident in the first stanza where Larkin presents the girl in ‘white satin’ suggesting her purity and virginity. One could disagree with this statement and interpret the de-feminizing of women differently. It could be suggested that Larkin combines masculinity and femininity together, ‘moustached lips’, to show his view that men and women should be viewed more equally in society. However I disagree with this alternative interpretation as I feel Larkin tries to portray the attacks ‘snaggle-toothed’ and boss-eyed’ are sadistic and grotesque but he does not disagree with
The fact that the female is standing in the middle of the street in full stripper attire goes unnoticed. In the real world we can consider that a first class ticket to being raped or prostitution; in other words some type of sexual act whether welcomed or forced. These unrealistic images put our young girls in situations where they feel in order to get a boyfriend or to get attention you have to be sexually active or look the part. They look to fulfill the lifestyles seen on MTV by rushing into relationships and having sex in hope to live a fantasy. Many times the end result is young girls subjecting their selves to abusive boyfriends at pre-teen age to fit an image.
A. Rose Miller Period 5 11/21/2012 Lady’s Dressing Room Essay “A Lady’s Dressing Room” and Montagu’s Response The poem, “A Lady’s Dressing Room” is of a crude sort of off-color humor. I find it repulsive, in-your-face, and indecent. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s response was certainly understandable. The many insults she wrote toward men were justified considering what Jonathan Swift had wrote about women.
Margaret Atwood’s speech “Spotty Handed Villainesses” explores Patriarchy, feminism and “bad” women in literature. She uses wit and humour to disarm the audience and often uses anti-climatic statements to grab the audience’s attention. Margaret Atwood’s speech resonates through time with her critical study of feminism in a social context and the impact that feminism has had on literature. In the speech Atwood explores the moral dichotomy that exists in Women at the time. She shows how women can only be categorised as either an angel or a whore.
Also, just like how the symbolism of adultery is accompanied by shame, the symbolism of able is accompanied by strength. Hester Prynne’s scarlet letter is intended to be a device to bring shame and humiliation into her life because of her sin. Originally made to represent adultery, the scarlet letter adopts other meanings. The scarlet letter starts off to symbolize adultery and shame, then it transforms to represent angel, and finally it adapts to symbolize able and strength. Like the scarlet letter, Hester transforms as well.
Until, at the ending one finds out Lady Bertilak was tricking Gawain, the whole time. The two stories, Le Morte d’Arthur and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, compare because one would get the idea to never trust woman, although Lady Bertilak was just tricking him, but, in d’Arthur, Guinevere actually did have an affair with Lancelot, giving King Arthur the right to say, “Never Trust Woman.” At the time, in medieval times, men had the idea of anti-feminism, which is why woman were less dominant; why woman were more scandalous, because they felt the need of having their own
APPLICATION CASE 3-1: SEXUAL HARASSMENT CASES ARE BECOMING MORE COMPLEX (Note: To receive full credit please expand your answers to communicate your understanding of the subject) 1. (25 points) Should the President of Caritas Christi Health Care be fired? Why or why not? I think the President of Caritas Christi Health Care should be fired if the descriptions of sexual harassment is true. Obviously, his behaviour of “sexually charged looks and gestures” and “unnecessary touching” such as hugging is a sexual harassment action to women if the women were not willing to.
The feminist analysis of Roman Fever This paper takes the short story "Roman fever" as an example for the text analysis, discussing the two protagonist from a feminist point of view. Through subtle descriptions by Wharton, the story shaped the irrational female image due to jealousy in women relationships and revealed women's love life under the influence of patriarchal ideology in the western society. Moreover, this paper criticizes the hypocrisy of the upper class and calls for women's self-awakening. Key words: Edith Wharton, roman fever, feminist criticism, patriarchal consciousness, self-awakening. 1.
Compare the way that Lady Macbeth, the protagonist of The Laboratory, Havisham and one poem of your choice are presented. Lady Macbeth, the protagonist in The Laboratory, Miss Havisham and the woman in the Battered Doll are portrayed as either physically or physiologically damaged causing the audience to be intrigued by their actions, creating a form of entertainment causing the audience to react differently depending whether it was a modern audience or not. The authors present their characters as damaged women using men as a catalyst to ignite their strong emotions towards them. This creates the theme of female dominance, death and a pinch of vulnerability. The result of the actions they have committed or what has been done to them, they react similarly but at different approaches, creating an idea of violence.
In 2007 Tom Ford came out with his new menswear line and he came out with a seriously racy ad campaign to go with it. His ads are hyper-sexualized with naked women and crotch grabbing; the ads are so racy that they over shadow what is being sold. The one Tom Ford ad that stuck out to me was an ad of a naked woman that is split into two. They show her vagina barely covered with a perfume bottle and then they show her with a perfume bottle in between her breasts with her hand covering her nipples and her mouth wide open as if she is having sex. This ad is completely demoralizing towards women.