Lastly, the third book, appeasing the demands of a quest, discloses the actual distribution or withholding of glory. The initial enigma of the House of Fame is present in the first book, with its attention upon the story of Queen Dido and Aeneas. Because the entirety of this book is devoted to the story of the Aeneid, it is quite reasonable that the reader should conclude that the poem is a love-vision. However, this begs the question why the poem is entitled the House of Fame. Moreover, the relationship between the activities of Venus and those of her sister Fortune must be further deciphered.
Darius was the only Persian king marrying the women of the previous king to establish legitimacy and authority over Persia. Herodotus gives us a great deal of information about Atossa , the daughter of Cyrus and wife of Cambyses and Gaumata before marrying Darius, she was also the mother of Xerxes. Supported by other source Darius gained power through his marriages to all the female descendants of Cyrus, probably so that they could not marry anyone else who might challenge his leadership. This portrays the role of royal women, although women did not have political influence they instead helped to protect their family. Unlike royal women non-royal women were mentioned in the treasury tablets from Persepolis as weavers or stone workers.
Rhea: Mother of the Gods Many people know about Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon. They are the top three of Greeks god history, but what about the goddess or titan that brought them into the world. Little is known about this Greek Goddess in spite of being described as mother of them all. According to Greek history though, without her there wouldn’t have been any gods or goddess at all. This paper will be discussing the origin of the Greek titan, Rhea.
Her knowledge and abilities were revolutionary during this time period and are still very much used today. As rhetoric evolves, her story becomes stronger as well as her legacy as one of the first female rhetoricians. Aspasia of Miletus is considered the most famous woman in Ancient Greek history. Born in Ionia during the 5th Century BCE, Aspasia grew to become an especially intelligent and important woman in the Greek world. Moving to Athens in 450 BCE, Aspasia caused much controversy through her place as an educated and well-known courtesan along with her apparent disregard for the acceptable behavior of a typical Athenian woman.
As Eunice is used to present a wider background for the play, she also presents the society at the time, and sometimes voices the audience’s opinions, for example, after Stanley beats Stella, Eunice’s speech is punctuated with many ‘!’, showing hers and, furthermore the audiences, shock at the violence. Compared to the violence between Stanley and Stella in Scene 3, Williams portrays Eunice’s ordeal to be less dramatic and more normal, showing that as the play has progressed that domestic violence was a regular occurrence in the 1940’s. Furthermore, Williams has used Eunice to also enforce the submission of women during the set time period, using the alcohol Eunice drinks after the beating by Steve to portray this; alcohol in A Streetcar symbolises a means of escape from reality, mainly used by the protagonist, Blanche DuBois. By presenting Eunice to be drinking alcohol conveys the idea that she can’t cope with her relationship with Steve, and uses alcohol to escape it, much like
In The Bloody Chamber Angela Carter reverses gothic traditions so that the males become the victims instead of the females. Consider at least two of the stories in the bloody chamber in the light of this view. The gender constructs of passive, young, virginal woman who are victimised by dominant, strong and wealthy males is a common trait throughout gothic tales including many of Angela Carters short stories from “The Bloody Chamber”. However, Carter received the criticism of “[extracting] latent content, conjuring up a new exotic hybrid” in which she challenges the typical stereotypes of gothic conventions, influenced by her feminist nature. These caused the post modern versions of her stories to adopt dualisms of combining sexual desires with naivety and give alternative interpretations that perhaps the male characters suffered victimisation instead.
06/14/2012 YASH PANCHAL Love and Seduction “My Last Duchess” by Browning and “To His Coy Mistress” by Marvell are examples of two men searching for the right words to express their emotions towards a woman. The speakers in both poems are talking about love and seduction. Even though they both are written in two different centuries, both pieces have remarkable similarities as well as some of the common expected differences. “To His Coy Mistress” values women and their love they give, while “My Last Duchess” totally humiliates the role of women in society. “My Last Duchess" and "To His Coy Mistress" shows the act of the men in these two poems.
However one could also argue that Larkin seems to justify violence against women by suggesting that access to women is something men have been unfairly deprived of. This becomes evident in the first stanza where Larkin presents the girl in ‘white satin’ suggesting her purity and virginity. One could disagree with this statement and interpret the de-feminizing of women differently. It could be suggested that Larkin combines masculinity and femininity together, ‘moustached lips’, to show his view that men and women should be viewed more equally in society. However I disagree with this alternative interpretation as I feel Larkin tries to portray the attacks ‘snaggle-toothed’ and boss-eyed’ are sadistic and grotesque but he does not disagree with
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.
All three stories barely compared, they all just touched on different aspects on how woman were supposed to be for their husbands, and how it would be if they did do as said. Like, in d’Arthur when Guinevere was to be killed. One can also see while reading each piece that each author all have an interpreted feeling that they feel against women in their writings. Like in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Le Morte d’Arthur, one can get the idea that the authors have a “don’t trust women” set of mind. One can get that idea, being that in both pieces the woman are having an affair with another man, although Sir Gawain and the Green knight was just a joke, it was mostly trying to “teach a lesson” or make a point to men, why one should not trust a women, because of the trickery and games they hold up their sleeves.