KamaSutra and the War Between the Sexes

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KamaSutra and the War Between the Sexes

The movie KamaSutra is a tale of love and passion. It is set in ancient India and is a story about Tara, a princess and Maya, her maid. Maya was always in Tara's shadow. Everything she used were the leftovers of the Princess. Maya always had to move in Tara's shadow. Even though she was prettier and more accomplished in the arts Maya could never be seen as Tara's equal. To avenge herself Maya seduces Tara's husband, the king of a neighboring province. For Maya it's only an act of revenge, for now Tara will have to spend the rest of her life with what Maya had used. On Tara's wedding night, Maya offers herself to Tara's husband. After Maya seduces Tara's husband she finally finds herself. Instead of seeing herself as Tara's shadow she now sees herself as equal to the queen, for now Tara will have to spend the rest of her life with something Maya has used. Tara gets rejected repetitively by her husband. Her shyness and inhibited sexuality annoys Rajsingh. On their wedding night he leaves her to go to one of his courtesans. Thereafter Tara is always portrayed as either crying or watching her husband leave with other woman. She is a bitter, jealous, and ugly woman till Maya teaches her the art of loving. When her husband, Rajsingh now sees her he desires her. It is after the point that she sees herself as a sexual person that she can find herself. The queen emerges as a strong woman, no longer a weeping lost soul. When Rajsingh starts to falter after he is rejected by Maya, Tara takes control of the state and of the King.

It is through intercourse that the relationship of the male and the female are depicted. It is the tool of love, power, destruction, and identity. Through sexu...

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...n emphasis on the emotional aspect of the child. These differences pave the way for unhappy adult interactions.

The divorce rate in most western countries is alarming. In eastern countries they are definitely on the rise. The two sexes are taught so well to be different from each other that when it is time for them to live together they can't. The only solution maybe to go back and unlearn exactly what comprises femininity and masculinity. So that the future children grow up to fill our expectations of what is human, rather than what feminine or masculine.

Work Cited

Horney, Karen. "The Distrust Between the Sexes." A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers. 5th ed. Ed. Lee A. Jacobus. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1998. 337-351.

KamaSutra. Dir. Mira Nair.

Earl Jackson Jr, Stategies of Deviance. Indiana University Press 1995

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