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- 1661: Othello
- ... IV, Scene I is a continuation of the anxiety and indifference Othello is under going. Iago takes advantage of this by being blunt with Othello about his wife Desdemona. Iago suggests that she is having sexual relations with other men, possibly Cassio, and continues on as if nothing has happened. This suggestions put Othello into a state of such emotional turmoil that he is lost in a trance. Iago's control ...
- 1662: Desdemona
- ... Othello, he sees women, as sex objects while Othello, has a point of view of a genuine man. Granted, Desdemona is not a cunning whore of Venice, it must be recognized that she does have sexual and intellectual desire. Othello says of Desdemona, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs, she swore in faith twas strange, twas passing strange, Twas pitiful, twas wondrous pitiful; She wished she had ...
- 1663: Othello
- ... it comes to Desdemona are quite the same. He uses the young girl as the object of Cassio’s desire to upset Othello. Iago also professes his love for the girl but not as a sexual object but as an object to be used to exact his revenge upon Othello. “ Now, I do love her too; Not out of absolute lust, though peradventure I stand accountant for as a great sin ...
- 1664: Deeper Philosophical Meanings
- ... make himself out to be a messenger of Dionysus, not the god himself. He encourages all to let out their true nature. As a god in ancient Greece, he stood for wine and drunkenness, ecstasy, sexual being, dance, and madness. It is hinted many times throughout the reading that Dionysus has a revenge motive. It is as if he wants to punish the population of Thebes for not taking his true ...
- 1665: Arcadia As A Postmodern Text
- ... play begins with a humorous introduction into the student-tutor relationship between Thomasina Coverly and Septimus Hodge. Stoppard immediately sets the tension between cerebral and passion themes by Thomasina’s curiosity, “tell me more about sexual congress.” while Septimus attempts to engage Thomasina’s attention in proving Fermat’s theorem. These opposites become numerous in the play as Stoppard contrasts free will and determination, science and the humanities, romantic and classical ...
- 1666: Artistic Theme Of The Bacchae
- ... believes in self-control-being in control of what you do what ails you and what you allow to bother you. In conjunction with this is the concept of love. According to Socrates lust or sexual desire is on of the lowest forms of love; thus does always need to be obtained. Rather wisdom, the highest form of love according to Diotima and Socrates should be sought and revered. The concept ...
- 1667: Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
- ... father abused her by placing her in a small cubbard that was infested with mice that bit her repeatedly. I felt that this interaction between the two serves as a way of showing the Doctors sexual attraction to her. Stephen Frear in turn lets the audience clearly know that the role of gentlemen is such that it would be wrong for Dr. Jekyll to put any type of move on her ...
- 1668: Don Giovanni, Critique Of The
- ... the religious community. Even if a person is not active in religion, s/he usually has a set of morals that frown upon the life of a player. The Don s second downfall is his sexual habits. Any person who shares his/her bed with different partners, including the occasional married one, each night of the week, walks with a black cloud over his/her head. At one point in the ...
- 1669: A Comparison Of Two Classic Fi
- ... Last Seduction. Walter Neff and Phyllis are never shown doing more than kissing, as Mike and Wendy get right down to things on the first night they meet. Wendy never showed any emotion in the sexual scenes because she never wanted Mike to get any idea that she had feelings for him. Although if Mike had known that she did feel some emotion for him, as Phyllis did, he may have ...
- 1670: Dantes Divine Comedy Essay
- ... seek his death upon their shores. According to Vernant, examination of the original Greek text, as well as the popular conception of these creatures "locates them in all their irresistibility unequivocally in the realm of sexual attraction or erotic appeal" (104). These seductive creatures however, as seen in the piles of decaying bodies upon the shores of their island, are truly creatures of death. Vernant further asserts, "they are death, and ...
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