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- 1361: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... this day and time, it was very disrespectful for a white man to associate with a black woman and acknowledge it. It has been known since the beginning of time that white men have had sexual relationships with black women. If not, light-skinned blacks would not have been. The town also resented the fact that Mr. Raymond took care of the children he had by this woman. This book was ...
- 1362: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... is accused of raping Mayella Ewell many southern men felt that something personally was begin taken from them. It was not the fact that a supposed rape had occurred but that a white woman had sexual intercourse with a black man. "Mr. Ewell came in, very excited he was, and said get out to his house quick, some nigger'd raped his girl" told the sheriff at Tom Robinson's trial ...
- 1363: The Jungle
- ... She becomes very upset, but will not tell Jurgis why. After she fails to come home one night, Jurgis confronts her. She breaks into tears and tells Jurgis that a foreman named Connor forced a sexual relationship on her. Jurgis curses and runs off to find Connor. After beating Connor to a pulp, Jurgis is sent to jail for 30 days. The judge refuses to listen to his story seriously. While ...
- 1364: The Awakening
- ... towards women. It also distinctly indicates the dissatisfaction that women felt in their lives. Because of the roles that society has given them, women are not able to seek and fulfill their own psychological and sexual drives. In The Awakening, Chopin uses Edna Pontellier to show that women do not want to be restricted by the roles that society has placed on them. Because of the time she lived in, Edna ...
- 1365: The
- ... towards women. It also distinctly indicates the dissatisfaction that women felt in their lives. Because of the roles that society has given them, women are not able to seek and fulfill their own psychological and sexual drives. In The Awakening, Chopin uses Edna Pontellier to show that women do not want to be restricted by the roles that society has placed on them. Because of the time she lived in, Edna ...
- 1366: Reaching Up For Manhood
- ... marriage. They simply didn't know a lot about sex and couldn't find willing partners. I think that says a lot about the times during Canada's childhood and the times now. With the sexual revolution right after Canada's childhood he now sees an endless weakening family with fewer fathers present in the household and many only marginally involved with their children's lives. He states a very good ...
- 1367: Mockingbird
- ... that blacks and whites are, certainly, not the same. Another way of looking at the symbolism of the snowman would be to say that Jem's combination of mud and snow signifies miscegenation, marriage or sexual relations between persons of different races. The fire at Miss Maudie Atkinson's could, once again, be seen as the prejudice of Maycomb County showing that the mixed child is, in fact, no better than ...
- 1368: Chrsanthemums
- ... baggy clothes that tend to de-gender her. Her husband Henry is more practical, with greater involvement in physical concern; but is confronted by a woman whose depression is partially due to a confusion of sexual identity. Henry withdraws from the masculine role of leadership, leaving Elisa to flounder between aggression and submission. Here Steinbeck offers no solution for the psychological conflicts that plague human interactions. He does not want the ...
- 1369: 1984- A Valid Prediction
- ... of the line when it comes to authority. Oceania is a world of no enjoyment or pleasure. Citizens work, eat, and sleep day after day after day, with no breaks for relaxation or fun. Even sexual intercourse is viewed as treacherous if pleasure is achieved. This behavior is merely for reproduction, no more, and no less. Big Brother and the government limit pleasure in order to limit disobedience, much like the ...
- 1370: 1984
- ... affair that lasts for a long period and is committed in many secret places. Winston rents the room where him and the girl, Julia, can be secluded from the outside world. Julia is considered a sexual deviant in the oppressed world of 1984. In the normal world sex is free, in 1984 it is a forbidden act only allowed for reproduction purposes to keep the partys numbers constant. Julia has ...
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