Commentary On Soderbergh's View Of Sex

Proving that pathetic fallacy is a strong literary technique in enhancing the tone or mood of a story, it also within this story shows how John might not be fully committed to his partner. Not in the sense of loyalty, but how he only cares for her physical well being and does not take time to think about her mental health. Another factor of Ann’s mental health being affected is that she is in isolation, she had thought that she would be okay, as she has been a farmer's wife for seven years and being alone for a lot of it, however this time was different. Ann feels like she is being held captive in her own house, and because of the storm she is unable to leave the house. Her isolation ultimately leads to the decision to cheat on her husband, which has the repercussion of her husband killing himself in order to never have to confront her about this. The purpose of Steven coming over was to visit Ann to make sure she was alright, but one thing lead to another and they ended up in bed

not pretty clothes when she would be too old to wear them” (3). While Ann wants the money to pay off the mortgage, she is not pleased that John spends his time working. As stated on page 3, “[Working] was to deprive her of his companionship, to make him a little duller, older, uglier than he might otherwise have been”. His demanding efforts to make money goes unnoticed by Ann. His status as her husband is similarly unappreciated. A change of mind enters Ann's head when Steven enters the farmhouse. Ann begins comparing the two men, Steven as “erect, tall, square-shouldered” (6) while John is “thicket, heavy-jowled and stooped” (6). Steven seduces Ann, which leads to the pair sleeping together. By cheating on her husband, Ann's behaviour is not only disloyal, but ungracious also. Steven is also unappreciative of his friendship with John, as betrayed him and slept with his wife. Although John commits himself to pleasing Ann, she is not too content. Since Ann does not notice o respect John's attempts to gladden her, he is an unappreciated character who should be treated with far greater amount of respect and admiration from fellow characters.

Perhaps the week that John and Margaret had spent apart had caused her to imagine and believe her life was more perfect than it truly was. It is mentioned that “they had been quarreling when he left” (Jackson 64) and she was taking their time apart to get hold of herself again. It could be, during this time, she had imagined a better life for herself and generated an image in her head of their marriage that was not reality. When John arrived, she started paying closer attention to things he was doing that he would not normally have

you, sir, I do not believe it” (Miller70). Even after John’s lechery, she believed that he

The dilemmas established from the nature of motivation, compel the characters to resolve their conflicts. Ann is struggling in a mental and emotional anguish to find the importance in her life. The conflict arises in her decision to gratify her goal; the satisfaction she seeks for in life which is the love and support of her faithful husband. In addition the conflict results from Ann vs society, she feels as though she can’t connect to society because “John never talks, he doesn’t understand…maybe he’ll have Steven come again, and some other young people, too. It’s what we need, both of us, to help keep young ourselves”. Even though John’s ignorance towards his wife’s emotional needs create issues between them, Ann fails to stop herself from being attracted to Stevens appeal, she tries to impress him by changing to “another dress, hair rearranged”. Furthermore, it is true that marriage can sometime result in peoples miserable conditions. As a result of Ann’s actions she came to realization that even after cheating with Steven her guilt leads her to realize that only with John she can be emotionally fulfilled. “John was the man…with him lay all

It is both because of John’s deep-seated loyalty to Ann and Ann’s sacrificing nature that kept them together, and brings them apart.

The significance of the scene is that Elizabeth asks John questions when he gets home late and she shows him no affection like if she doesn’t really trust him anymore. It reveals that their relationship no longer has trust.

John has placed his wife in a prison. The disturbing stained and yellowed wallpaper is used, faded and repulsive. The color is one that is unwelcoming, uncomfortable, and uneasy; its color mirrors the narrator's relationship with her husband, and ultimately, with herself. The narrator is uncomfortable and anxious in the barred sulfur colored room where she is fussed over by her husband. John preens his wife, his possession, making the narrator draw further and further away from him. She realizes that her husband lacks the understanding that she craves. This is emphasized as John refuses to accept his wife's condition; "John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him" (248). As the narrator begins to recognize herself as her husband's caged belonging, she becomes more attached to the symbol of the wallpaper. Instead of attempting to understand, John reduces his wife to the status of a child. He repeatedly refers to her as his "blessed little goose"

“It's time I was used to staying alone." This quote shows that she is often left alone, as her husband tends to the chores of the farm. Ann resents John for leaving her alone all the time. Anne is attracted to Steven by the way he describes him, " he was erect, tall, square shouldered. His hair was dark and trim, his young lips curved soft and full. The descriptions that Anne uses shows her attraction towards the Steven physically. She uses much more flattering words to describe him in comparison to how she would describe John. Anne is bothered that her husband does not care about his appearance. This is displayed in the following quotation, "He'll be shaved, though- that's what I mean and I'd like you too to spend a little time on yourself." She is comparing him to Steven, and wanting him to be more like Steven. Steven knew that Ann was lonely and needed someone with whom to talk. When Steven shows up just at the right time to help Ann with the stock, she was so glad and excited that he had come. He puts his arms around her to comfort her…and she enjoys it. Anne, in the end does love her husband. The subsequent quote shows this, "...half-smiling still, his lips relaxed in the conscienceless complacency of his achievement, she understood that thus he was revealed in his entirety--all there ever was or ever could be. John was the man. With him lay all the future. For tonight, slowly and contritely through the day and years to come, she would try to make amends." This shows that she indeed loves John and feels remorse for being unfaithful to him. In John being her "man" she is saying that she wants to be with him and not Steven. Steven is addressed in this quote as being just a guy who achieved nothing more than having sex with a married woman. the remorse is demonstrated by her saying that she will do her best to make it up to John for the rest of their

Ann was very selfish woman who only thought of herself. This is when does not want john to go look after his father, who is old and alone. She only want john around. However her marriage is dull, and boring as john think that the best way to prove his loyalty to Ann was to work hard all day long. She ends up having sex in her matrimonial bed with the neighbor and John come to find them there. He decided to commit suicide by walking in the storm.

I have found the perfect definition of sex from Greta Christina’s paper “Are We Having Sex Now or What?” and that is, “Maybe if both of you (or all of you) think of it as sex, then it’s sex whether you’re having fun or not.” I find this definition as sex because it clearly tells the audience that sex is sex if you thought of it as sex. For example, when opposite or same sex have a sexual activity or intercourse with each other whether you like it or not, it is sex. However, this definition can be unsatisfactory to others because there can be cases when people may not want to count it as sex, such as getting sexually assaulted by someone. In this case, the person who got sexually assaulted would not want to count it as sex and avoid the truth, but for the person who made a sexual assault to someone, that person would count it as sex. It may be hard for those people who gets sexually assaulted, but that is the reality and the truth that he/she had sex with someone. Therefore, even though this definition may be broad and unsatisfactory to some people, it will narrow down and clearly prove that you had sex if you think you had sex.

In the One-act play A Question of Sex, by Arnold Bennett, the play provides the background setting at London in the 1900th, where the main character, George Gower, and his family members live in a house with the drawing-room just outside of London. In this play, George and his wife are just having their first child giving birth with joyfulness of first time as a father. However, The Father was stuck into the depressing moment for the difficulties he is struggled with since the child was born. One of the events is that he had been informed six months ago by his rich uncle, Francis Gower, that he would give the family ten thousand pounds if the upcoming child was a baby boy. Unfortunately, the gender of the upcoming child turned out to be a baby girl instead of a baby boy, as George has been concern and fear for during that period of time. In addition, George, after tasted the experience of being the new-parent, felt extremely exhausted and fatigue for taking care of the baby, as he needed to stay awake most of the time for taking care the crying by where he has never experienced ever in his life. Eventually, he had shown the depression and anxiety due to the high tension he has bear with the past months, as his sister May and sister-in-law Helen discover himself falling asleep with weariness and disappointment, which leads to the conversation they have at the beginning of the scene.

Wanting to know the whole story, John promised to keep it a secret and the wife then proceeded to tell him more. She said that her husband was the worst man to ever exist since the world began. She also admits that she owes a debt of 100 francs and asks the monk for the money instead of humiliatingly asking her husband. The monk agrees to get her 100 francs under the condition that she has sex with him in return. The wife agrees to these terms.

'Sex Without Love,' by Sharon Olds passionately described the author's disgust for casual sex in which she vividly animates the immorality of lustful sex through the variety of her language. The sarcasm used in this selection can easily be misunderstood and quite confusing if the words and lines are not analyzed with specific construction. Olds' clever use of imagery and frequent uses of similes, to make the reader imagine actual events, makes this poem come to life. For example, Olds describes making love as 'Beautiful as dancers.' (Line #2) in this line, she questions how one can do such a beautiful act with a person whom one is not in love with. Olds also describes sex as 'gliding over each other

In Marge Piercy's book, Woman on the Edge of Time, sex plays a major role in both the utopia and the dystopia. The portrayal of sex in the novel comes from a feminist point of view. The main character, Connie, is caught between a utopian world and a dystopian world where the takes on sex are on different levels. By using a feminist approach, the two worlds of sex can be examined and contrasted.