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 Chapter 4, The Cruel Hand, Michelle Alexander does a great job analyzing the issues that many inmates go through when they get out of prison. This chapter was a bit more interesting to read compared to the last one. One passage that stood out to me was when Michelle Alexander stated, “Even if the defendant manages to avoid prison time by accepting a “generous” plea deal, he may discover that the punishment that awaits him outside the courthouse doors is far more severe” (Michelle Alexander Pg. 142). Like I mentioned in the beginning, when inmates are done serving their sentence they usually suffer on the outside world. That is because they’re now being labeled as criminals in our society and corporates/businesses have a little leverage on
It is my intention to compare the book, Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos, to its modern movie version, Cruel Intentions starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. I intend to examine how the original French text was modified in reference to plot, character, morals/values, and themes. I also plan to discuss how these transformations change the meaning of the story and reflect different cultural/historical contexts. There are some major differences between these two works, if only because of when they were written.
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 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.
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
Many short story writers have written about the gender and role of woman in society. Some of these stories express what Barbara Walter calls, “The Cult of True Womanhood” meaning the separation of both man and woman in social, political and economic spheres. In order to be considered a “true woman” woman were to abide by the set of standards that were given to her. Women were expected to live by the four main principal virtues - piety, purity, submissiveness, and domestication. In Kate Chopin’s short story, “The Storm,” Calixta the main female character breaks away from “The Cult of True Womanhood” when she has a sexual encounter with her past lover Alcée. The storm goes through many twists and turns that tie with their adulterous actions. Although she breaks away from the four main principal virtues, she in the end is considered to be pure innocent of heart because the action in which occurred happened instantly, and as white as she was, she was taken away from her innocence.
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 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.
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,
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.
“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 ...
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.
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-...