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- 1781: Brave New World - Summary
- ... help to adjust John to Utopia, and spend each day showing off Utopia to him. John becomes more disgusted and appalled with each passing day. Mean while, Lenina has become infatuated with John and made sexual advances toward him, and this ruins his image of her as an object of worship, so he spurns her. Soon his mother died and John went berserk and tried to lecture the Utopians back to ...
- 1782: Barbie Doll
- ... of the spectrum concerning choices made when confronted with an unfavored social norm. The poem was written in 1970s America, when the roles of women had begun to change drastically. Women's Lib and the sexual revolution all both come into play in this work. The poem boils down to a sarcastic attack on the image of the ideal woman, which the media showed America and the feminists fought to destroy ...
- 1783: A Streetcar Named Desire
- ... Blanche retreats into a private dreamworld. She tells Stella and Eunice, a friend, of how she is going to die. She says she will die from eating an unwashed grape. Grapes are a symbol with sexual overtones. Stanley represents the unwashed grape that will kill her. Blanche says that she will die with her hand in the hand of a young ship's doctor and she will be buried at sea ...
- 1784: A Shropshire Lad
- Shropshire: A Place of Imagined Sexual Contentment Published in 1869, A.E. Housmans A Shropshire Lad stands as one of the most socially acclaimed collections of English poetry from the Victorian age. This period in British history, however, proves, by ...
- 1785: A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man Religion As Repressi
- ... an artist. Suzette Henke observes in her critique Stephen Dedalus and Women: A Feminist Reading of Portrait: Through Portrait, Stephen manifests a psychological horror of woman as a figure of immanence, a symbol of unsettling sexual difference, and a perpetual reminder of bodily abjection. At the conclusion of chapter five, he prepares to flee from all the women who have served as catalysts in his own adolescent development. His journey into ...
- 1786: A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
- ... The other is a realist at home on Dublin's most sordid streets. One Stephen is too shy to kiss the young lady he yearns for. The other readily turns to prostitutes to satisfy his sexual urges. One is a timid outsider bullied by his classmates. The other is courageous enough to confront and question authority. One devoutly hopes to become a priest. The other cynically rejects religion. Stephen loves his ...
- 1787: A Portrait Of The Artist
- ... Jesus, "He was born of a virgin pure, Mary the virgin mother." (110) Why can't the rest of man kind born as pure? The figure of the whore physically begins with Stephen's first sexual encounter. From childhood he has heard of women like that of the whore, their names unspeakable at the dinner table, mistresses of highly noted figures. "But what was the name the woman had called Kitty ...
- 1788: A Clean, Well Lighted Place - In Despair About Nothing
- ... soldier has not found his existential truth for himself. The army isnt it. The soldier is left tormented with the hollow feeling of nothingness, a hollowness that he attempts to temporarily fill with immediate sexual gratification. The younger waiter recognizes the soldiers need: "What does it matter if he gets what hes after?" (199). But the experience will only leave the soldier feeling more empty. The young waiter ...
- 1789: Farewell To Arms 6
- ... war, his knee gets injured and he has to go to the hospital in Milan where he meets a British nurse named Catherine Barkley and falls in love with her. During one of their many sexual affairs, Catherine gets pregnant. Fredrick greatly wants to desert the war because he is tired of seeing Italian solders killing each other. Fredrick and Catherine then escape to Switzerland by rowing across a lake. After ...
- 1790: Existentialism In No Exit
- ... is so preoccupied with the idea that he is a coward that he demands the women to renounce this and declare his masculinity. He is so dependent upon this that he refuses to engage in sexual activity with Estelle until she affirms him. This is anti-existential because according to its principles, he should not have to rely on others for confidence. Inez is in Hell because she had seduced her ...
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