Hester Prynne: A Casualty in her own Erotic War. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne’s depiction of Hester Prynne’s inner turmoil can be viewed and deliberated on in numerous ways. As the reader myself, Hester’s inner turmoil is given off as that when she is denying her secret of Dimmesdale being her lover, she wishes she could deny that anything between them ever happened. Whenever Hester would think about her sin of adultery, Hester would in turn feel sick to her stomach. To me it looks as though Hester believes that Dimmesdale and herself could be together, but will not be able to on this earth before they die.
7. Translucent: Pars in translucent material transmit light but also reflect some, so a clear
From this story, it is obvious that Miss Shi was wrong and had caused death upon a righteous man. Therefore, when these kinds of problems and misunderstandings happen, people started considering women as troublemakers. And from then on, women’s status in the society only gets lower. However, each individual has different personalities and not everyone is the same, people should not judge all women as the same because of examples like “Chaste Woman
When one looks at Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, they feel as if they are being challenged. Every woman in this painting has a mismatched pair of eyes, and Picasso made them appear to be staring right at you, almost as if they are challenging you. This artwork has created such an outstanding mark in
5. Using examples from the reading you have done for this course describe and discuss how the social construction of “beauty” or the “beauty myth” affects women who have been diagnosed with cancer. Throughout history a woman's value has been determined in terms of her physical appearance and ability to mirror a socially constructed idea of beauty that continues within western society. As a result, a woman's body image, feelings of sexual attractiveness, and self-esteem has been negatively influenced by society. Due to society’s creation of unrealistic images of what women are supposed to look like, many women who have lost a breast to cancer with experience a decrease in self-esteem and have other negative emotions.
Aunt Alexandra was horrified with the fact that Scout did not live up to the standards society had of women. She believed Scout should be wearing dresses, not running around wild like a boy. To further outstretch this topic of stereotypes, an article published in August 2014 by The New York Times stresses the phrase 'throw like a girl' and the hidden aspects of it. On the second page of the article, the author speaks of stereotypes of the female community. "Such restriction, constriction, and fragmentation can be observed in many everyday movements, including the way a woman walks, sits, and carries books.
b. Has collagen and elastic fibers, but not reticular like name suggests. c. Skin Color is determined by 3 pigments: melanin, carotene, and hemoglobin. 1) All races have about the same number of melanocytes, but produce different quantities of melanin in the melanocytes. Melanin is brownish-black 2) Carotene is yellow-orange 3) Hemoglobin is a red pigment found in the red blood cells of the blood.
The coiled basket was done in early twentieth century. It is located at Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson. The third art work I picked is figure number 8.6 on page 155 of the textbook. It’s oil on canvas by Johannes Vermeer. The name of the painting is called “Woman Holding a Balance” done in 1664.
Another difference between the two works is that Cimabue painted Mary and the angels with larger fingers and noses and he also used lines to define her clothing. Giotto portrayed Mary as a recognizable figure instead of as an idealized one. He used dark and light contrast in her clothing and
We see plenty of shapes and contours though. We see the gentle shapes of human bodies and the smooth lines of their clothes, along with rounded soft shapes of the goats. The trees on the background also have the idealized soft and rounded shapes. The colors are also soft, transparent, and muted. I’d say that they are more of the pastel colors.