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- 1081: Essay over The Epic of Gilgamesh
- ... book The Epic of Gilgamesh is Gilgamesh himself. In the beginning of the book one realizes that Gilgamesh is an arrogant person. Gilgamesh is full of himself and abuses his rights as king. He has sexual intercourse with the virgins of his town and acts as though he is a god. Although some readers of this classic book may say that Gilgamesh does not change from the beginning of the book ...
- 1082: The Diviners: How does Morag's Past Influence Pique's Life
- ... want you to go away? You aren't my mother. I haven't got a mother." (P.111) Furthermore, Morag does not get married with Jules. When her husband is Brooke Skelton, she has a sexual relationship with Jules and gets pregnant. Later, Pique is aware that Jules is her father. Pique has an idea about why she is different from the others because a typical family should have a mother ...
- 1083: Use of Colors
- ... of Cholly. He released in her all the colors of life which were sealed down in her soul. Everything about their early married life was described in vivid colors. This was true even of her sexual experiences with him. Everything was fine, ordered and beautiful in both Pauline and Cholly's life until they moved "up North". Once they moved North everything changed. The colors went out of Pauline's life ...
- 1084: The Elusive Form: The Use of Female Characters in "Naked Nude"
- ... These offensive characters establish the first of a series of mental obstacles in the imprisoned protagonist's attempt to copy Titian's nude. They torment Fidelman with cynical laughter and exploit his demeaning position. His sexual insecurity is established at the beginning of the story when he ponders his violent guillotine sketch, asking "A man's head or his sex?...either case a terrible wound" (Malamud 318). The limited omniscient narrator ...
- 1085: Interpreting Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever"
- ... marriage (1121, 1120). One begins to realize the lengths to which females put themselves in order to conform to a decidedly cartoonish gender role as Wharton begins to expose the shortcomings and paradoxes of this sexual stereotype. The story's climax¾Mrs. Slade's confession of forgery and Mrs. Ansley's shocking announcement¾delivers the coup de grâce to society's outmoded impositions upon females. The myth of sedate and subservient ...
- 1086: The Theme of Coming of Age in Literature
- ... his mother. He moves from the category of women and privileged children toward the privileged one of the adult males. Such rites maintain adult male togetherness and strengthen cultural continuity. They resolve boys conflicts about sexual identity and establish clear attitudes toward fathers and mothers. Such rites dramatize the power of older over younger males and state that "only women can make babies: but only men can make men." (1995, Grolier ...
- 1087: "The Journey Through the Twelve Forests" and "The Bhagavad Gita": The Vaishnava Community
- ... to please the Brahman and devote their entire lives to him. They care neither for themselves nor their benefits, only that they become one with the Brahman. They abandon all immoral practices such as inappropriate sexual encounters, lust, coveting, and other things that are believed to cause harm to their bodies such as drug or alcohol abuse. But someone could also say that it is not wise to put all your ...
- 1088: The Picture
- ... At that you unwrapped your perfectly-formed legs from around Robert's waist. "Sandy, we can go home and 'continue this,' as you say, just as soon as I relieve some of this pent-up sexual tension I have. Could you please, just put up once again with my physical appetite. It seems to be outside my control. Just this once and then I'll give you a break, please?" The ...
- 1089: Vronsky and Anna's Struggle With Love
- ... made what he felt for her infatuation than love. As the book continues, though, I felt that Vronsky changed and became closer to Anna. He seemed to care for her and not just in a sexual way but, in a way that he would do anything for her to make her happy. I felt that before he had met Anna it was hard for him to feel love, yet did he ...
- 1090: How Does Coleridge in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan' Show the Interrelatedness Between Mankind, Nature and the Poetic Experience?
- ... for reasons accumulated through the traits of human and social instinct, in contrast to that obtained naturally. An example of this purely natural expression is that of the senses. KK is an extremely sensual and sexual poem, appealing to maybe the animalistic part of the human rather than to the section which recognises its reason and depth. In RAM, the mariner is subjected to the elements of nature, where all his ...
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