Their enticing sexuality, he believes, tempts men to behave in ways they would otherwise not. A visit to the “flophouse” (a cheap hotel, or brothel) is enough of women for George, and he has no desire for a female companion or wife. Curley’s wife, the only woman to appear in Of Mice and Men, seems initially to support George’s view of marriage. Dissatisfied with her marriage to a brutish man and bored with life on the ranch, she is constantly looking for excitement or trouble. In one of her more revealing moments, she threatens to have the black stable-hand lynched if he complains about her to the boss.
After being processed into the camp, the Americans are enthusiastically greeted by the British prisoners, who have been in the camp for over four years. While the Americans are in terrible shape physically and emotionally, the British have kept them selves in excellent condition. Appalled at the sorry state of the Americans, the British offer them food and clothing, and even entertain them with a play of Cinderella. The Americans are made sick by the rich food. Billy, who is in even worse shape than many of the others, falls into an hysterical fit during the play and has to be restrained and tranquilized.
The same is true for any other soldier. In this huge, senseless conflict, each individual soldier is pretty much meaningless and helpless. Likewise- and here's the symbolism- the poor field mice are frightened and helpless, just like soldiers in the battlefields, getting blown to pieces just for the senseless depravity of it. In the world of Catch-22, a major element of military success
It is peculiar how the creator of the Smurfs decided to amass all the underlying personalities of a woman, which differs with each one, under one generic female smurf. In a certain light, her successes and failures represent all of femininity and woman kind as a whole. But, this is not the case, since women differ from each other in personality the same as men do. Grumpy, clumsy and jokey can all be attributed to a female, but are only apparent in the male smurfs. It brings about the question, what was the intention of the creator of Smurfette?
An example of Sykes lack of morals is, “If you such a big fool dat you got to have a fit over an earth worm or a string, ah don’t keer how bad ah skeer you” (705). Cleary Sykes does not care if he hurts or scares Delia and continuous to scare Delia with his ruthless actions. Delia also has lack of morals. Delia shows her lack of moral by leaving her husband in the house
As well as, Alima’s lack of interest within him results in more frustration that leads him to “hide himself under her bed one night… [and there] was the noise of a tremendous struggle” (132 Gilliam). Terry’s attempt to rape Alima reveals the violence within men that causes them to become wild animals that pursue their prey by attack. Regardless of the strength and morality of woman in Herland, once a man provokes violence onto them, they become weak and in order to prevent violence they tend to become inferior to the man and abide by their traditional roles, allowing him to become their master, and thus inequality is sustained. Moreover, in the film, the men mentally abuse their wives by blaming them for their inferiority complexes. As well as, hold them responsible for creating Stepford.
But today there’s not one women here” (Lysistrata 16). This quote displays the comical tone portrayed by lysistata and the women. Every action portrayed from a character makes an even greater sense of comedy to the already comical plot of the story. The play deals with sex and sexuality in a comedic fashion and also is able to show the humor that can be found in the foolishness and ignorance of men, the men being away at war would come home when they could, sexually relieve themselves and then leave again to continue a meaningless war, however the women changed there ways and stopped allowing men to do as they please; which forced the men to stop the war. The women did everything they could do to get men to understand that they are equally intelligent, as well as having
He manipulates everything around him including all the key women in his life (Caruthers, 2006). In contrast Vivian is a prostitute who is a victim of circumstance. During the film Edward plays a hand in almost every aspect in Vivian’s life where she has very little control over his life putting him in the more dominant position of the relationship. Therefore reinforcing the ideology that both sexes sustain the notion that males are superior to that not only of woman but society in general (Ortner, 1989; Donaldson, 1993). “The possession of erotic desire for
Churchill’s lead character in the play is paradoxically a female misogynist who takes on a stereotypically male business persona who climbs to the top of the corporate ladder. Churchill also offers an interesting take on female pageantry, Post-Feminism of the 1980s, the “New Wave” of Feminism, and English feminism and capitalism under Margaret Thatcher’s rule, as well as family values and the ease and ability to climb the corporate ladder with a child. Churchill has openly acknowledged that Margaret Thatcher’s rise to the position of British primeminster was an important inspiration for writing Top Girls. Churchill is deeply interested in feminism and the constant consequences of the women’s liberation movement. There was a certain irony in Margaret Thatcher’s ascent to power in the wake of feminism, since Thatcher’s policies were deeply conservative and anti-feminist.
In Dr No, women play very little importance to the narrative and are simply represented as either sex objects or dominated by men in the workforce such as Miss Taro or Miss Honeypenny as the secretaries. However in Aliens, the female characters are strong and in many ways dominant over the men in the film such as Vasquez who is the leader of the marine, and Ripley who directed the whole battle while Gorman was too nervous and afraid of Aliens. These differences reflect the views society had regarding the roles of women at the times the films were made. 2. What role does the context in which Ripley is travelling (i.e.