3.Presentation of relationships in 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'Ghazal' Both 'Ghazal' and 'To His Coy Mistress' present relationships as self-seeking and manipulative, as the narrators in both poems desire the sexual fulfilment of their lover. In 'To His Coy Mistress' Andrew Marvell uses form for effect. The narrator in the poem is trying to convince his love to have sex with him, and his whole argument can be seen as humorous and playful. One way we see this is through the use of rhyming couplets which are employed throughout the poem: 'Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime'. The extended use of rhyming couplets has a comic effect in this poem as the fast paced rhymes read like a collection of little jokes with fast punch lines.
Throughout the course of the play, the playwright seems to define sexuality in terms of winners and losers; Stanley a ‘winner’, is a powerful man who is assertive in his sexuality, and who eventually triumphs over Blanche both morally and sexually, whereas Allan, Blanche’s late husband is a ‘loser’. He was a homosexual or at the very least a bisexual, and upon Blanche having made a derisory remark about his sexuality after having caught him with another man, he shoots himself. Perhaps the most important element of human sexuality that is explored in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ is the harmful effect it can have on one’s social standing and consecutively, one’s psyche. Blanche is the vessel through which the audience truly comes to understand the baneful features of human sexuality and how an over identification with the importance of one’s sexuality leads to strife and death. As mentioned earlier, Williams sorts raw human sexuality into two categories, the winners and the losers.
For example, the femme female (a seeming homosexual female that looks and acts like the stereotypical woman) will seek a masculine female or stud that will find them attractive in a prison setting and use them as a form of protection. These type of Homosexual relationships are found to be more prevalent in female prisons due to the fact that weak men in male prisons are taken advantage of and leaves themselves open to a tougher a time in
Plato’s Symposium discusses two types of love: Common Love and Heavenly Love. Common Love, also called Bodily Love, is defined as the love found between a man and a woman who share a sexual relationship. Heavenly Love, on the other hand, is a more sophisticated and preferable kind of love that exists between an older male mentor and his younger male student. In the book, Pausanias, Aristophanes and Diotima argue that young boys will gain great knowledge from their older and wiser teacher through homosexual acts. Through these speeches, Plato implies that homosexual love is the highest and most honorable love to pursuit, and through his focus on homosexual love, the author justifies the idea of Heavenly Love.
The novel discusses the interaction between the individual and the system. Through Caitlyn's father we are shown the attitudes of many towards criminals - he wants Brett to be entirely separated from society. In contrast, Sam wants the boys under his charge to integrate successfully with society. The second theme self-respect and sexuality is explored through the characters Caitlyn and Rebecca and the different ways in which they interact with Brett. Brett tries to seduce Caitlyn, and it is only when Rebecca does the same to him that he begins to realize that sexuality involves more than just having fun.
Our minds have created justifications to alter these guidelines when they our actions do not measure up to the social norms. Susan Bordo’s essay, “Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body” focuses on the gender roles society has created while revealing the way the mind justifies a particular sexual way of life. Laura Kipnis’s essay, “Love’s Labors” addresses love and adultery. Kipnis addresses the common way of thinking of why and how cheating is so prevalent in today’s culture. Kipnis goes into detail about the impact love has on our way of thinking.
The characters represent the jaded American dream, and the kind of lives, standards and tensions within which the immigrant population found themselves living. Whilst not explicitly about race, Williams has developed a setting, culture and characters affected by racial prejudice. Williams believed that people are doomed to suffer from despair and mistrust. He said that 'we are all savages at heart' (Williams, T. (1959), Foreword to A Streetcar Named Desire, Penguin), and he certainly presents this notion through his characters, whose sexual instincts plays large part in their flawed identities and their personal downfalls. Sexuality plays a key role throughout: Williams' homosexuality perhaps influenced his interpretation of these characters.
Cosmo women readers demand respect from men, insisting that men value them not for their looks only , but for who they are. In particular, intentionally provoking sexual desire and signaling easy openness
“The men, already sure of their game, would wait by the coconut grove to attack him with words” (Sánchez, 55). Here we appreciate how the society attacks using words such as “drag queen”, “fag”, and other words in a derogatory mode. We also get to know in the story that this place has a heteronormative were man should dress like a man and woman like a woman. 1 LGBTIQ is the acronym of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Questioning community. 2 Sexual preferences and orientation is the direction of sexual attraction and sexual identity refers to how people identify biologically.
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