When the narrator and his classmates arrive to the battle royal night, they are forced to watch a naked woman, a blonde, white woman with an American flag painted on her stomach. They feel uncomfortable but some of the white men demand that the black boys look at her and others threaten them if they don’t. “They caught her just as she reached a door, raised her from the floor, and tossed her as college boys are tossed at a hazing, and above her red, fixed-smiling lips I saw the terror and disgust in her eyes, almost like my own terror and that which I saw in some of the other boys” (p.236). At this point, the young man recognizes that he must watch her dance, even though he doesn’t want to. That reflects what is going on right now in society, as some situation people have to something that they don’t want to do.
Clearly the way to get beautiful women is to ignore them, perhaps mistreat them" (272). The ad Kilbounre is describing is similar to the picture in the Bebe ad, and she is trying to make women see just how degrading these images are. The woman in the Bebe ad is very desperately attempting to get the man's attention by leaning on him and focusing her attention on him, but he doesn't seem interested. The image is posed like that to show superiority and power that men supposedly have over women. This teaches women that they need to constantly dote on the man, whether he pays attention or not.
Before the fight started a nude dancer was put in the ring as a distraction. She was mistreated and thrown about the room wildly. The boys were blindfolded and told to go at it. The young teen and one other boy were the only two left in the ring, but the other boy won. After the fight there was a rug with money on it to pay the boys for the fight.
Then men that were watching the fight were showing their superiority treating them like sub humans and for the boys wearing the blindfolds it could be seen as a misleading sign of goodwill. The men being there to hear a speech are making them submit to ridiculous hurdles to get the eventual carat which was the scholarship. Another important remark was even though the white men were not really fully giving their attention to the speech of the narrator one was still able to pick up the term of social responsibility. There is a tone of superiority when asked to repeat the term and after correcting his wording is rewarded with the briefcase and scholarship, which in itself is like rewarding a dog for retrieving his bone. The narrator’s dream at the end I believe symbolizes the American Dream as a fallacy.
This makes him look pretty hostile and antisocial as he does not want to associate with people who follow the same ideologies in the society. It is also evident that Lenina likes Bernard as she tells Fanny that she has agreed to go with him to the Savage Reservation. She also believes that he is handsome even though Fanny thinks otherwise, “Well, he won't be alone when he's with me... I rather like his looks”. (chapter 3, page 38,39) This shows that the feelings Bernard has for Lenina are requited which may be a reason to why he is infuriated when other men talk about
That’s why you had black kids attend the high school made for black children and white kids attending the schools that accommodated for white people. Did you ever notice that the schools for the white kids were much nicer than the schools made for the black children? That’s what is wrong with the white hunter. He believes that black people aren’t worthy of the things white people are worthy of. He puts the icing on the cake when proving that he is a racist person because he makes miss Phoenix feel as if she’s worth nothing when he so rudely holds the gun in her face and simply asks her, “‘Doesn’t this gun scare you?’”.
I agree with Sheets-Johnstone’s claim that “women inspire male sexual desire simply by existing.” In the twenty first centuries, targeting western culture, women are constantly examined by men based alone on their outward appearance. A woman can be reduced to only to certain body parts such as the genitalia. This is because a woman’s appearance alone can cause a male to become aroused which naturally leads to this kind of degradation. The woman as a whole is basically forgotten. Because it is common for men to behave in this manner, it is almost routine for a woman to be appeasing to a man for approval.
He buys women drinks, dances with them, is very rude and judgmental, and he really only judges them on their looks. He sees them as disposable objects that he can throw away without a second glance. In the novel, he calls himself a sex maniac and you can see that side of him when he is around women. He tries to be polite to women, act older than his age, and even tries to seduce them. He does, however try to give these women a chance to almost prove to him that they aren’t phonies, but almost every single time he is disappointed.
11. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. From Literature Resource Center. Bookmark:Bookmark this Document Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2001 Gale, Group, COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale Few rooms in literature are as vividly drawn as the fancy hotel ballroom in Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal." Full of smoke, whiskey fumes, the red faces of howling drunken men watching a white woman dancing and a group of black boys fighting, the room calls to mind a chaotic vision of hell by Hieronymus Bosch.
They want to know more about tools so that they are able to use them when needed. But women are so intimated by men, and scared to become independent because of the laughs and rude comments that the men snicker amongst other men. So this party scene is designed for women who want to become independent; it’s a comfortable place for them to learn more about ‘man jobs’. Another interviewee from Nelsen commented, “When they realize that the women next to them at the party also don’t know what a Robertson head is they don’t feel so bad [or] intimidated by wanting to express themselves in their homes.” (Nelsen 39) Women are so intimidated by men that they base their whole life around how the men will judge them. Women consider themselves lower than men, because they are not treated as equals.