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- 1771: Elli
- ... to work in the factory and the workers thought that they were men. This must have been tragic for the prisoners because they would feel like they have lost their identity and even their sexual status. The suffering they had to experience in this period was immense, some people did not cope with it too well and these people passed away. Others trying to speak out against the wrongs of ...
- 1772: Dubliners
- ... reveals our world and ourselves. Characters The characters are also unable to relate successully either to each other or with the world; if Dubliners are paralysed in their relationships, their paralysis is often of a sexual nature. Narrative technique The omniscient narrator and the single point of view are rejected: each story is told from the perspective of a character.Narrated monolgue, in the form of indirect thought and often of ...
- 1773: Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold
- ... 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 ...
- 1774: Divine Comedy
- ... 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 ...
- 1775: Demian
- ... he is two years older. At this time,Sinclair is dealing, to an even greater extent, with the conflict between his two worlds, but no longer is Franz Kromer the outside threat, rather his own sexual maturity and desires, now constantly plaguing him. A bond is re-established between the two boys one day in class when the teacher recounts the story of Cain and Abel, bringing back the memory of ...
- 1776: Crime And Punishment
- ... creature, and are also two of the simplest forms of evil. What some today don't realize are the particular universal actions and ideas, of people are themselves purely evil. The customary human desire for sexual actions displays this. Sex is an action induced by lust. Lust is a primary moral evil. Every creature contains this feeling, and whether they decide to express it is influenced by their environment. Raskolnikov was ...
- 1777: Catcher In The Rye
- ... the edge until he has an epiphany that eventually causes him to have a breakdown. Holden's constant inquiry about the location of the ducks in Central Park and his conversation with Sunny, instead of sexual intercourse, signify a lost boy in desperate need of help. Holden interrogates two taxi cab drivers about the location of the ducks during winter in Central Park. As Holden questions the second driver, Horwitz, the ...
- 1778: Cask Of Amontillado
- ... story (Platizky 1). Live burial is practiced during this time as a form of capital punishment in Europe (1). It was a "Rite of social purification (2). "Being buried alive was the severe punishment for sexual offenses and grand larceny (Van Dlumen 6). With Poes fear of being buried alive these bells have a horrifying sound to him. Being buried alive is such a fear during this time that many ...
- 1779: Canterbury Tales - Humour
- ... The reminds you to think that Chaunticleer and Pertelote are only animals which brings about a hilarious effect. With Nicholas, a lowly clerk, portraying a higher class gentleman when in essence he just wants a sexual pursuit and the meaning of his name uses an ironic humor to show he is an idiot. With John, the carpenter, Alison, his wife, and Absalom, the priest, in "The Miller's Tale" they also ...
- 1780: Canterbury Tales - Courtly Love In Chaucer
- ... swich labour" (140) indicates Arveragus' preference to be a warrior lover in the public sphere instead of a servant in his private sphere. On the battlefield, he can through virile performance release some of the sexual frustrations which develop from the constraints in his marriage. Assuming this is true, his departure represents a revolt against his powerless position in his marriage. Dorigen strengthens the possibility of marital bliss existing only as ...
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