The story I have chosen to analyze in this paper is “The woman who drank from her lover’s skull. An in depth analysis of the story presents a very stark method of punishing a woman for any kind of act of infidelity that she may commit. The punishment of forcing her to drink from a chalice made of the skull of a man with whom she had intimate relationship with and her husband also hanging his skeleton in her closest, is easily nominated as the most messed up thing in this story. The fact that her husband has no remorse for his actions can be corroborated by Parlamente saying “I find the punishment extremely reasonable” he had no regrets about punishing her this way. “For just as the crime was worse than death, so the punishment was worse than death” (Boccaccio 178). However by today’s standards a punishment like that would not go unnoticed and would be …show more content…
He went from despising his wife and conjuring up the most cruel and severe punishment for her to being able to reconnect and actually have children with her. His actions were initially composed of pure hatred the thought of hanging a human skeleton in her closest and forcing her to drink from a goblet made of the skull from a man with whom she had a romantic relationship, to being able to forgive her and continue their lives on together is truly amazing. To be able to transition from burning hatred for as the only way to accurately describe his punishment could be through what he did to her, to be able to love her again, is truly astounding. It is extremely reminiscent of the US Marine Corps saying “no better friend, and no worse enemy”. His actions forcing her to take part in this cruel and twisted form of punishment, to transitioning to being able to make love to this woman again and being proud of her to bear the man’s children is without a doubt awesome in a very, very weird way of
In the article “Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt,” by Jean Killbourne, she discusses the culture of male superiority over females. With the rise of feminism and exposure to media being at an all-time high, the two topics seem to be overlapping more and more. Daily, society is flooded with sexist, violent, and inappropriate ads and messages that usually degrade women and praise men. This is an issue which only recently gained traction while the “feminist” movement increased in popularity. Women are wrongly objectified for the sake of tradition and a male-driven agenda. This thought has been held on for far too long.
The essay Paralyzed Witnesses: The Murder They Heard was written by Stanley Milgram and Paul Hollander. In this essay, the authors describe in detail the responses of the witnesses during the murder of Kitty Genovese and the impact this case has of the ability for an individual to help people during a time of distress. The main idea of this essay was to analyze the reasons why the witnesses did not help during the murder. The internal and external conflicts were the main factors that influenced the witnesses did not help Genovese during her time of need.
By now, the readers should know that Marta was a nineteen year old girl who committed suicide at the beginning of her life. At the end she was an old ailing woman. Buzzati used the literary terms imagery and symbolism in “The Falling Girl” to construct Marta’s suicide. The author presented to the readers a plot twist wherein instead of having the rising action flow to the falling action, he appointed them in reverse order, which was specified in an altered
The genre of tragedy is one that has fascinated readers since its very conception. From the intricacies of the plots, to the internal and external struggles of the characters, tragedies are woven together in such a way that the reader is drawn into the story. Two types of tragedies particularly fascinate readers, although they diverge greatly, especially around the theme of revenge. In the areas of motivation for the revenge. and characteristics of the revenger, Greek and Senecan tragedies vary greatly.
solve a case. It is also a way to examine the accepted practice of degradation of woman and the
The short story “The Storm” by Kate Chopin, deals with the subject of adultery. The story takes place in the early 1900’s. There are two main characters, Calixta (the wife) and Alcee (the former lover). Alcee must take refuge from a passing storm in Calixta’s house, while he is there the two end up making love while Calixta’s husband and son have to wait out the storm at the local store. By doing this Chopin implies the theme that is, adultery is natural and does not necessarily have negative consequences. Through out the story the constant changing of imagery plays a great role in the development of characters and their ability to demonstrate the theme.
However, when Turia suggests her husband to divorce her and to marry another fertile woman, her husband refuses. He writes: “How could you talk of a dissolution of our marriage before it was demanded by fate!” (CIL 6,1527, 31679, Shelton, p.294). Turia’s husband’s reaction shows his decent love for Turia. Not every man is willing to sacrifice for his wife like Turia’s husband, even worse, some husbands disrespect and insult their wives. Based on Rome’s laws, beating wives is not a crime (Shelton, p.48). Valerius Maximus, in Memorable Deeds and Words 6.3.9 (Shelton, p. 47), complains the unfair treatment of Egnatius Mecenius and his wife. Because Mecenius’ wife drinks some wine, he beats his wife to death using a stick. Nevertheless, Egnatius Mencius does not receive any punishments or rebukes. Therefore, Turia’s husband’s decision not to divorce should considered as rare among the entire Roman society.
The book “Cask of Amontillado” chronicles what a perfect crime is. Giving an account of the events that transpired 50 years prior, Montresor, an aristocrat from Europe introduces the story by explaining how Fortunato a fellow aristocrat and wine connoisseur insulted him. Though it is not revealed how Fortunato insulted Montresor to make him want to kill him, it is evident that he really angered him. Montresor’s plan is not just to punish Fortunato but to bypass the punishment associated with the crime. Montresor exploits the pride that Fortunato has in his abilities to taste wine to lure him into the catacomb where he manages to send him to the afterlife. To highlight what a perfect crime constitutes,
The conflict between good and evil is one of the most common conventional themes in literature. Coping with evil is a fundamental struggle with which all human beings must contend. Sometimes evil comes from within a character, and sometimes other characters are the source of evil; but evil is always something that the characters struggle to overcome. In two Russian novels, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, men and women cope with their problems differently. Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment and the Master in The Master and Margarita can not cope and fall apart, whereas Sonya in Crime and Punishment and Margarita in The Master and Margarita, not only cope but pull the men out of their suffering.
A patriarchal society suppressed the rights, freedoms and overall independence of women in the nineteenth-century. Due to this dominant male functioning of society, women's roles in society were reduced to basic domestic functions which in turn gave them little to no significance. The Story of An Hour illustrates this social behavior during that period. It gives a very realistic sense of what marriage was to the majority of the women during the period the author wrote the story. It portrays marriage as a form of prison for females.
Here we see different types of writers give such incidents find effect ion in a lot of things in the writings “Mistress” of their views in a different manner. Here the concept of “free love” was therefore used by these feminists as a personal and individual response to the social and legal constraints that a conventional marriage laid upon them. By remaining free, they hoped to retain not only their independence but those rights that, in spite of some change in the law, they still lost on marriage, including rights over the detention of their children.
“Sexual violence was a part of a system where violence reigned almost as a matter of course for no apparent reason [in our eyes]; children were beaten by adults, women by men or by other women, servants by their masters. Sometimes the aggressor broke his stick or his sword on his victim’s back, sometimes he killed him. It would have seemed highly artificial, in such circumstances, to isolate sexual crime from the other forms of aggression that were constantly present, or latent, in ...
I read a story, after I finished reading it my mind was still reeling over what I had just read. Stories like this are quite impressive magnificent; they draw the reader into the story and leave them with a strong impact. How we interpret a text is in itself impressive, as every person is different, every interpretation is too. As I read “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, I could not help but notice that Kate Chopin uses the window to symbolize the future that Mrs. Mallard has been pinning for all her life. Chopin also uses Mrs. Mallard’s heart condition as a symbol of Mrs. Mallard’s marriage. The short story is consequentially the story of an oppressed woman who had to confine herself to the social norms of marriage. Through Formalism Criticism, we will explore the various symbols that Chopin uses to describe how Mrs. Mallard yearns for freedom, and through the Feminist Criticism, we will explore how the institution of marriage oppresses our heroin.
Judith Wright's poem `The Killer' explores the relationship between Humans and Nature, and provides an insight into the primitive instincts which characterize both the speaker and the subject. These aspects of the poem find expression in the irony of the title and are also underlined by the various technical devices employed by the poet.
The Rape of the Lock deals with the issues of vanity, frivolity, conceit, pride and the indulgence of elite of the English society in trivial matters of love, romance, sexuality and flirtation. In the mock-...