In The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison shows how Pecola, a poor black girl who believes she is ugly because she and her community base their ideals of beauty on "whiteness" giving up and not trying hard for her wish of the bluest eyes. Love is as good as you make it. The quote that relates to this is “Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, and stupid people love stupidly” (Pg.47, Morrison). This quote is significant because Cholly Pocola’s abusive father, an alcoholic man who rapes his daughter at the end of the novel which is the climax of the book.
Like a normal man that has an immensely gorgeous girl in her late teens thrown at you, John Proctor fell in sin and committed adultery and had sexual relations with Abigail. This gives Abigail a pseudo-sense of anticipation that they will once be together. But this all twists invalidately, when Proctor shuns her down for his wife and good name. Subsequently Elizabeth Proctor known of this affair and as in result Elizabeth is forced to let Abigail go as the servant in the Proctor house.
One example of her harassment is displayed when she meets George and Lennie on the first day of their arrival. Curley’s wife flirts with the two new men (Steinbeck, 64). Next, Steinbeck uses foreshadowing once more to show that Curley’s wife is not yet done with Lennie. While George and some of the other workers are down at the whorehouse, Curley’s wife flirts with Lennie in the barn in front of Candy and Crooks. One example of harassment is the mental attack on Lennie.
The Corrupting Power of Women The portrayal of women in Of Mice and Men is limited and unflattering. We learn early on that Lennie and George are on the run from the previous ranch where they worked, due to encountering trouble there with a woman. Misunderstanding Lennie’s love of soft things, a woman accused him of rape for touching her dress. George berates Lennie for his behavior, but is convinced that women are always the cause of such trouble. Their enticing sexuality, he believes, tempts men to behave in ways they would otherwise not.
[David] flinched back and he [Carl] grabbed the back of [David’s] neck with fingers like a vise. ‘You’re nothing but a lazy brat. I’m going to beat some industry into you if I have to kill you to do it.”’ (Gould, 3) David’s earlier years have been hard, resulting him being unpopular, and being unsatisfied. David begins to feel sick and tired of the abuse from his father and decides to run away from home. David starts to develop hatred towards his father, wanting to hurt and give him the pain he has felt over the years.
By having sex to rebel against the mind-controlling Youth Movement’s talks about pro-creational sex, Julia goes against the Party because “sexual privation induces hysteria…and could be transformed into war-fever” (822). Sex poses danger to the Party, and because the Party outlaws it, Julia becomes an outsider. Unlike Winston and Julia, Parsons transforms from an outsider who hated Big Brother to an insider after staying in “the place where there is no darkness” (757). The place Parson transforms in refers to the room in the Ministry of Love in which torture alters people’s beliefs. Parson originally holds the belief that evil exists inside the Party, but he changes his beliefs to a pro-Party stance, even going as far as to thanking the Party for saving him.
Julia seduces Tito to advance her singing career. The last theme is marriage seen as a sexual repression since Tito is constantly lying to his wife about the many girls that he has slept with. Also, Maggie feels like she has to have a last fling before having any commitment with Max. Lend Me a Tenor is highly hilarious and fits into the genre as farce. The deception makes the play entertaining
Rabbit enjoys the sexual experience because it is what makes him feel closest to that person. In a sense, sex for Rabbit, is a drug, and having kicked the habit of cigarettes early in the novel only intensifies his cravings for it. It seems even, at times, that sex might be what he is actually running to and because of his disintegrating relationship with Janice, he must find that feeling of comfort that he needs with someone else. Eventually, after he finds his way home, he is hit with the truth that his wife Janice has killed their newborn baby in a drunken stupor. This only pushes Rabbit away from his old life more, and when he goes off on Janice for killing the baby he is practically pulled to run by his embarrassment.
Emilia is Desdemona’s maid and she has a mind of her own. Through discussions she has with Desdemona the reader can concur that she will do anything necessary to get to the top even if that is sleeping around. She also says in one of her and Desdemona’s conversations that women only cheat because men have taught them to do so by neglecting them and fraternizing with other women. Emilia is a woman who although different from Desdemona is not all bad. She is as duped by her husband, Iago, as much as the rest of the cast and she tries to amend her wrongdoings in the end by telling the truth to Othello although she is too late to save her mistress, Desdemona.
7 is infidelity among spouses. We see Daisy boldly Jay in front of Nick and Jordan. We see a sick George Wilson tell Tom he finally realized something has been going y6on with his wife and the implication is, of course, that she has been having an affair. Another social issue mentioned in the chapter is interracial marriage which is another reference, like the one in Ch. 1, of Tom's bigotry and racial intolerance.