Normality In Necrophilia

Sexual drives are the basis of human behaviour because the goal of most humans is to find a sexual partner for comfort and reproduction. When the narrator visits his lover’s grave, he reminisces about the times with his lover and is overwhelmed by grief. The narrator longs to be loved as he says, “Then I saw it was getting dark, and a strange, mad wish, the wish of a despairing lover, seized me” (Maupassant 151). The loss of his lover penetrates his mental anguish as it is human nature to desire to be loved. Thus, he is greatly affected by the loss of his sexual partner, as sexual drives often dictate behaviour.

Whether we’d like to admit it or not, at some time or another, we’ve felt less than. It doesn’t take much to feel small in a vast universe and it takes even less to lose your sense of being altogether. Throughout the novel, “A Separate Peace”, the narrator Gene experiences many changes concerning his self acceptance as he shifts from having extreme paranoia to obtaining inner tranquility. Yet, some aspects of his being remain the same throughout the novel, like his tendency to feel unfulfilled and unimportant. These changes and continuities intentionally placed by the author lead to an extremely dynamic character who remains neither absolutely changed or the same.

People love to create little bubbles around them, but what happens when life comes walking by waving a needle? Often all it takes for someone’s entire sense of identity to change is one defining moment, just one broken preconception. For the narrator in Cathedral by Raymond Carver, this came from his introduction to the blind man Robert (Carver 108-17). For me, it came from a doctor’s office. No matter the source, humbling oneself is a difficult, yet necessary step to improving one’s life.

Attraction has led the author to indulge in relationships that had no meaning or depth other than being attracted to the individual on a sexual level. These relationships were short lived and usually dissipated shortly after they had begun. In fact, attraction has led the author to acquire a curable sexually transmitted disease because there was no time placed towards critically analyzing the situation.

“In men, in general, sexual desire is inherent and spontaneous” whereas “in the other sex, the desire is dormant, if not non-existent, till excited” (457). Greg’s terminology is extremely power-laden. “Spontaneous” has the connotation of energy and activity, whereas “dormant” and “victim” imply inactivity. An important concept is the assumption that men, the “coarser sex,” act on women, the “weaker sex” (457).

Contemporary understandings of sexuality are not the same as back in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Understandings and terminology in the past hold multiple differences and similarities than our current contemporary understandings.

The night air was heavy with silence. Clouds drifted across a calm sky, and a full moon shone in the distance. In a small hut on the outskirts of the valley, an old man lay in bed, awake in the peaceful slumber of the village. His breaths came in rattling gasps, his forehead burned, and his joints felt stiff with pain. He shifted on the blankets, his withered hands clenched in fists as he tried to suppress the wave of bitter memories coming to him. His life had been nothing more than work, loss, tragedy. He remembered all of his hope, his ambition, in his youth, and he smiled bitterly. No one would remember him as the man that he had once hoped he would become. Now, as his breathing became heavier and he felt himself fading on the brink of

The narrator has yet to indulge in any activities, like a sport or hobby, to give full concentration to, to explore his likes and dislikes. His defenses were possibly taught through the “introjected voice of the Establishment, […] or of tradition,” (Maslow 439) to live a quiet life with a stable job, a woman in his home, and basic necessities. The narrator’s environment enforced these social patterns to maintain

After each of these orgies of living he experienced all the physical depression which follows a debauch; the loathing of respectable beds, of common food, of a house penetrated by kitchen odours; a shuddering repulsion for the flavourless, colourless mass of everyday

On the other hand, Florio’s lack of self-control leads him to the guilt of a sinful lust. With the thought of his seductress plaguing his mind, he is never satisfied with the real woman in his life. Consumed by lust and desire, he constantly longs for more in his earthly life. The sins reveal the weakness of the protagonists and provokes their course to redemption.

The narrator is immediately consumed by his first taste of desire. Its “sweet flesh” leaves “stains upon the tongue and lust for picking” (5,7). The vivid, sexually charged imagery of the first taste illustrates the seductive nature of desire; the narrator is irrevocably tainted by his first sampling of the

“Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.” Through his quote, Alejandro Jodorowsky creates a reflection upon what he thinks the idea of normality in society should be. ("Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes." BrainyQuote.com). In the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Haddon alludes the idealistic thoughts on normality in today's society. In the world today, society expects the individuals to conform to what is thought to be normal. As humans, one strives to adapt to societal standards. Normality within society is considered something different for those that refuse

As humans, we all conform to one idea or another. These ideas can have positive and negative effects on the people and world around us. We are unable to avoid conformity, but we can show our individuality. Norman Shpancer’s article states that all humans conform to ideas that might not necessarily cause problems, but there are instances where the choices they make cause immense harm to others around them. Logan Feys’ biography on Leopard Man claims that people who act out of the ordinary, or looked at as freaks by society, live a happier life than the “slaves of society.” [Thesis].

Babb, Francesca. “Wes Anderson: ‘I don’t think any of us are normal.’” The Guardian. (2012) Web

To many people, sex is just sex. There is no relation to love in the act. In Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor, he at first makes the reader believe just the same by describing sexual urges in relation to pornography, how the sex industry flourishes due to primitive desires. However, he contradicts himself on the matter by saying sex is more. How censorship is just alluring and sex is more than the act itself