The second lines “Beautiful as dancers,/gliding over each other like ice-skaters/over the ice,” show through her choice of words how she does not see sex without love as something unclean, but rather as a show between two people, each performing for the other. Dancing and ice skating are both beautiful arts which are fully accepted in society, so in comparing sex without love to these arts, Olds is conveying to readers that she doesn’t care what they think of what the “ice-skaters” are doing and that they are performing something beautiful in cold grounds( no feelings). All that seems to matter is their personal happiness of the moment. However, Olds does seem to be able to see how that sex without love really is. She also describes the lovers “faces red as steak’ red representing the color of sensuality the desire of burning fire.
By allowing the reader to observe the church’s hatred towards happenings that they deem peculiar, the reader builds connection to the protagonist as Winterson displays how comfortable Jeanette is with Melanie, ‘glad the Lord had brought us together’. Therefore, the reader has the chance to review societal, religious and also their personal outlook on aspects that are different. Winterson wittily fabricates this scenario to challenge the traditional values people hold. People often dislike change, albeit is needed for progression. By displaying the repulsion towards the notion of Jeanette falling in love with someone of the same sex with brutal treatment, “…don’t let her out of this room, and don’t feed her.”, after the church learns of her relationship with Melanie, exposes that homophobia is a dated ideology.
He gets the reader onside by suggesting that people are intrinsically beautiful, regardless of the church’s view of their morality. Further, he references the Friar’s mistress. He quotes the friar as referring to his ‘niece’ as the “female with the breasts”. This reveals that the Friar is not related to the woman and actually the relationship seems to be sexual. As a man of the cloth, this is a sin for the friar to commit.
This was very visible through the characters physical communication. Throughout the production Houston and Nigel both find themselves being constantly rejected. Therefore being lonely, it’s only human nature to want to have a sense of belonging. When Houston and Potter did their little flirtatious dance for Molina they had blond wigs on, perhaps to mimic the look of the man’s previous interest who “stole” his attention away from them. It seemed that they were seducing him through their movements almost competitively.
exclamation marks, this displays his emotional state and anger, giving you an accurate idea of the character. Browning has used a linear structure for the poem with flashbacks to different parts of about Fra Lippo Lippi’s life. This works as a metaphor for how the church works because even though time is moving on and forward they keep looking back into the past and using old traditional practices and views; exactly what about Fra Lippo is angered about. Sexual Imagery is used by Browning in line 196 'Oh, that white smallish female with the breasts' demonstrates how Fra Lippo thinks differently to the other monks. This kind of sexual fantasy is frowned upon by monks and the church, this circumstance helps to distinguish Fra Lippo from other members of the church.
Within The Bloody Chamber, the protagonist brings about the attention of female sexuality to the reader through the loss of her innocence “I remember how…country of marriage” she is experiencing a journey from her innocence and individuality to being the possession of a man. The “unguessable country of marriage” is the female moving into an unknown journey making her vulnerable; however, she expresses a sense of excitement thus making her not wholly the victim. Animalistic connotations such as “his kiss with tongue and teeth” present the male as forceful and all powerful, and his behaviour towards her shows her as a victim of his actions consuming her. Similarly, in the Snow Child the young girl can be seen as victim as “I wish I had a girl as white as snow… the child of his desires” displays how the count is wishing for purity and youthfulness, his title bestows an aristocratic status over the young girl that allows him to have complete control over her. This may be a comment on how patriarchy shapes women in the image of men’s desires.
Beast, despite being the ugly animal he thinks he is, falls in love with the most beautiful girl in the land, spoiling her with riches and fancy clothing. 3. To what extent does the form of storytelling (ie. this ballet compared to the Disney movie) shape the way we understand and/or respond to a particular narrative? Unlike Disney’s Beauty and the Beast where we see the animated characters and music, in this ballet we can understand just by the simple movements the dancers are portraying by using their body and facial expressions for us as the audience to understand the plot of the story.
When we deny it, we grow cold and empty” The film Strictly Ballroom, which is directed by Baz Lurhmann, demonstrates many aspects of belonging and not belonging including alienation and rejection, which focuses on the two main characters Scott and Fran, and also the conflict of cultures, where two worlds come together and collide. Scott is an expert dancer who has been dancing since he was six. He is very sexy, and this is illustrated through his clothing and his soothing actions. Although Scott comes across as a confident and even comfortable person, he actually feels alienated and rejected when he is told by Barry Fife “You can dance your own steps, but it doesn’t mean you’ll win.” On the contrary, we have Fran. A beginner dancer, who dances with a girl and does not fit in.
From beginning to end, the speaker in Sharon Olds’ poem, “Sex Without Love,” uses countless comparisons to complete her goal. In the first comparison, the speaker mentions, “Beautiful as dancer,gliding over each other like ice skaters over the ice” (2-4). Dancers and ice skaters are both considered beautiful art: the speaker compares sex to a beautiful piece of art. Not only is it a comparison to dancers and ice skaters, but it is also comparing to what they do:preform. On the outside, they are beautiful dancers, but underneath the beauty they are as cold as ice.
It consists mostly of dialogue, contrasting the prior self satisfied, hypocritical speech with Lippi’s own words. Browning opens the section with the exposition of character and a representation of the monologist. We learn that Lippi is different to other monks with reference to sexual fantasy. This difference allows him to paint ‘females with the breasts’ which is frowned upon by the church. This contrast of views exemplifies the relationship between realism and impressionism art.