In the journal article, What If Dinah Was Raped?, by Lyn Bechtel, she gives her opinion on whether or not Dinah was raped and her explanation why. She claims that it has a lot to do with whether or not the intercourse was for a reason, like continuing family lines. Sexual actions result in power and strength that is shown throughout the family connections. Therefore, the more sex that occurred, the stronger bond there was in their group-orientation. When you first read the words of Genesis 34
The Red Tent by Diamant In Diamant’s powerful novel The Red Tent the ever-silent Dinah from the 34th chapter of Gensis is finally given her own voice, and the story she tells is a much different one than expected. With the guiding hands of her four “mothers”, Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah, all the wives of Jacob, we grow with Dinah from her childhood in Mesoptamia through puberty, where she is then entered into the “red tent”, and well off into her adulthood from Cannan to Egypt. Throughout
women like Dinah. Form, structure and plot The Red Tent is organized in a seemingly complicated yet beautifully simple way. There are three main sections; Dinah's mothers' story, her childhood, and her life in Egypt. Each is further divided into chapters. Although the story is divided into sections, the plot progresses intact. The exposition consists of Jacob's arrival and subsequent marriages to Leah, Rachel, Zilpah and Bilhah. Twelve of thirteen children are born, including Dinah, narrator
In her book, The Red Tent, Anita Diamant attempts to expound upon the foundations laid by the Torah by way of midrashim. In doing so, parts of her stories tend to stray from the original biblical text. The following essay will explore this and several other aspects of the book as they relate to the Torah and modern midrash. One of the first differences I recognized was the description of Leah’s eyes. In Genesis 29:17, Leah’s eyes are described as weak. Diamant dispels this ‘rumor’, saying that Leah’s
Dinah Washington, a vocalist and pianist, was an African American born in the South, who overcame racial discrimination and become one of the biggest singers in the country. Washington experienced several instances of racial prejudice, but persevered to overcome these hard ships. Dinah’s struggle with prejudice throughout her childhood and career left a lasting impact on the entire music industry. Obviously, Dinah Washington faced many harsh consequences during her childhood. Dinah Washington was
characters of Dinah Morris and Hetty Sorrell are compared and contrasted, albeit sometimes indirectly, both can, at times, represent the Madonna and the harlot. It is not always clear which woman is the harlot and which is the Madonna. Many critics have commented on the exchange in roles and the position of such a woman in pre-Victorian society. Dinah is a pillar of the society, a good hardworking girl who is a credit to the Poyser family, pretty but not beautiful by Hetty's standards. Dinah is unusual
In the 306 page novel, Queen of Hearts by Colleen Oakes, Dinah is a princess who is soon to become the Queen of Hearts, but her father, King of Hearts, comes in the way of that. The setting of this novel is in the fictional world of Wonderland. In the beginning of the novel, Dinah is surprised with a step-sister name Vittiore. Dinah fights for the approval of her father but never receives it. In the middle, Dinah goes to the Black Towers with her best friend and “future lover,” Wardley, after
Anita Diamant, the character Dinah is given a new life, and becomes more than the side note that she is in the Bible. The book starts with Dinah the memories of her mother and aunts, which are stories that have been passed down to her. Throughout the book it becomes clear that the stories and memories of the women in her family have a strong impact on Dinah, and it seems as though she expects her life to follow in a similar path to the lives of her “mothers.” When Dinah falls in love with a man, she
a concrete escape from a difficult situation. Liberation is equality, a release from real and figurative imprisonment, and a strong mental and spiritual change in mindset (Merriam-Webster 1). Characters like Pecola Breedlove in The Bluest Eye and Dinah in The Red Tent experience tremendous liberation from their devastating situations when they manage to find true happiness. Portrayed as a battered and abused girl in Toni Morrison’s novel, Pecola Breedlove lives a life of confusion, racism, resentment
The Reluctant Fundamentalist provides insight to the story of a Pakstani immigrant who comes to America pre and post 9/11. Changez has a tendency to waver between indentifying himself has Pakistani or American, discuss how Changez’s sense of identity changes throughout the novel? From the beginning of the novel or technically his retelling of his account Changez is respectful and admires both Pakistan and America. Throughout his experience at Princeton, Changez would put on airs about who he was
Delilah, of Sarah, of Jezebel, and, perhaps most interestingly, of Dinah. Anita Diamant, a contemporary chronicler of Jewish lore and a seminal figure in modern-day historical fiction, expressed the woes and voicelessness experienced by the women of the Old Testament in her novelistic midrash entitled The Red Tent. Narrated from Dinah's perspective, Diamant's novel presents a feministic interpretation and retelling of the story of Dinah, her mothers, and her sisters. Dinah's life in the Book of Genesis
Anita Diamant’s novel The Red Tent is a Midrash revolved around the biblical passage of Genesis 34: Dinah and the Shechemites. In this story Anita Diamant gives a voice to Simeon and Levi’s sister, Dinah, who is known as the woman who was raped then later loved by Shechem. After Shechem’s injustice of Dinah, Shechem and his city were slaughtered by Simeon and Levi. Both bible passages and the novel The Red Tent provide some similar and some different characteristic traits for Simeon and Levi which
Magrec, Inc. Case Study 1. I would let a day pass and then request another meeting with Dinah indicating a sincere desire to work through the matter and the need to come to an understanding and agreement of how to work together and with the team moving forward. At that meeting, I would start off and thank Dinah for bringing the Partco matter to my attention. I would communicate with Dinah that I respect her strong feelings and beliefs behind her actions regarding the Partco matter but indicate
idealized preacher Dinah with the fallible dairymaid Hetty by illustrating two very different examples of feminine beauty. Eliot directly addresses the complicated understanding of “moral” Victorian beauty through her physical presentation of these women and their actions throughout the story. Physical descriptions of Dinah and Hetty establish their moral character almost immediately, and also foreshadow what will happen to each woman through the course of the novel. Dinah appears as the physical
situations. Genesis 34’s account of the rape of Dinah, on the other hand, condemns sexual assault through the harsh punishment Shechem receives. However, given the two differing accounts of sexual assault, the similarity in the texts’ use of the rapes as narrative devices further problematizes the stories because it diminishes the seriousness
with Arthur, and the personal shame, social ostracism, and legal punishment she experiences as a result, require an extra dose of empathy and understanding. Eliot demonstrates the characteristics that render Hetty liable to a fall and shows, using Dinah as a contrasting example, how the stereotypical perception of the “fallen woman” needs to be adjusted in order to allow for human weaknesses and mistakes. Christina Rossetti also provides an insightful look into the problem of the “fallen woman
twin. Jezebel tells Blacksad that Karup was her father and left her pregnant black to die after him joining the Arctic Nation. Jezebel reveals a complicated revenge plot against her father to implicate him of rumors of pedophilia. However, Huk kills Dinah and in return Jezebel kills Huk. Blacksad: Arctic Nation explores racism, sexism, prejudice, economic privilege, and colorism through the lenses of postcolonial theory. Obviously, this is an outsider perspective of 1950s Americana, but has more depth
A woman is a wonderful creation of God. She is weak, soft, and gentle half of the humanity. Yet she has one of the most important roles on Earth; a role to continue the human race. Next to a woman should be a man who will help and protect her. Men, however, do not see it that way. Throughout history, women, a victimized gender around the world, have sought equality, but, unfortunately, male-dominated countries still reject that change. As a result, to this present day, a female is still a lower
Strength and Power The Red Tent by Anita Diamant illuminates one of the greatest testimonies to women’s strength: childbirth. On a creative level, Diamant did something extraordinary. She took a small passage from the Bible about the character Dinah, and made her story into an unforgettable testimony to women’s strength and power. Overlooking women’s role in Biblical life is easy because there is practically nothing written by or about women. Even though Diamant’s story is fictionalized, there
George Eliot's Adam Bede: Christian Ethics Without God The greatest recent event -- that "God is dead," that the belief in the Christian God has ceased to be believable -- is... cast[ing] its shadows over Europe. For the few, at lease, whose eyes....are strong and sensitive enough for this spectacle... What must collapse now that this belief has been undermined... [is] our whole European morality. --Nietzsche, from The Gay Science: Book V (1887) Dr. Richard Niebuhr writes, in his introduction