Essay on The Rape of the Lock

(In the second world of Don John, deception is employed to slander Hero and defame her honour. Its destruction goes as far as providing an unconscious imaginary land for men to relieve their fears about women, suggesting their sadistic desire to attack women so as to affirm their virility. After being publicly shamed, Hero can do nothing but swoon; Beatrice also suffers in great frustration; as she feels the constraints of a woman, she cries: “Is he not approved in the height a villain, that/hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O/that I were a man! …O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart” (IV. i. 212-214). Masculinity is portrayed as an exclusive power possessed only by the men who could fight back in the face of injustice.)

“Before the rape I felt good. My life was in order. I was getting ready to get married. Afterward everything changed. I kind of lost who I was as a person…

The medieval church taught that women were inferior to men and that they should be compliant and obedient to their fathers and husbands. Men look down to women as their respect for their ladies are limited as in Canterbury Tales were these women start out as beneath men. These same men who feel the need to arrogate women of their dignity find their fate is later put into the women’s hands. Although a women is taciturn and does not speak out to the men and talk of their animadversion toward the men’s behavior, these same ladies have the power to then decide how these men should serve their punishment for their sacrileges and unruly decisions as in the “Wife of Bath’s Tale”, were after his life was saved by an old lady, in return this old women requested to him to “take me as your wife” (p.138). A women’s love and passion should be approached with appreciation and admiration otherwise being inconsiderate and impassionate will turn a women against a man.

A Rape in the Early Republic, edited by Randall L. Hall, is the complete text of the John Deskins Trial which was compiled by Alexander Smyth, a prominent congressman and attorney in the Deskins case. This early in American legal history, rape trials were rare and when they occurred, there was little-to-no documentation of the cases. For example, John Deskins was the only rapist to go to jail in 1806 . This recount is significant to the development of legal history because it addresses gender and sexual misconduct cases in the early republic. During this time, the United States legal system was constantly changing to reflect changes and developments in society, making this case pivotal in legal history. In order to remain true to Smyth’s

Psychologists usually agree that the teenage years are among the most difficult periods in one’s life. Most teens are trying to figure out who they are, what they believe, and how they fit into the world around them. Beginning in the late 1970’s, a whole genre of fiction, referred to as coming-of-age literature, emerged and serves, at least for many teens, as believable presentations of young people learning to navigate the difficulties of their lives, often fraught with feelings of rejection, seemingly unresolvable personal turmoil, social problems, school and family issues, etc. Indeed one value of reading is to see and better understand some aspect of ourselves through studying others. The reading of SPEAK, a somewhat controversial book

In addition, at the event most employees were acting out of fear, and they all wanted to save their lives. According to the article, the manager at the triangle factory didn’t warn employees as soon as possible. As a result, the court tried both owners of the factory for manslaughter, but they didn't find them guilty because the juries in the court was in doubt if the doors at the factory were actually locked or not. Based on the Kate Altermans statement , “Its locked, Its locked!”, her reaction at the time could be seen as an alert to others to find a different door for refuge and could be used as an evidence by witness which proves that the doors in the 8th floor was locked. By coincidence, another witness of that fire incident, Frances Perkins

http://www.safehorizon.org/page/rape--sexual-assault-54.html?gclid=CMDFiLTfrswCFQmSaQodtvMEWQ "Rape & Sexual Assault. " Safe Horizon. Web. 29 Apr. 2016. This website gives you the definition of sexual assault and rape.

First let us review her tale. In the tale a knight is riding along until he comes across a woman. He then “in spite of all she said, by force took her maidenhead” (Lines 63 and 64), that is a nice way to say he violently raped her. Afterward he is taken into court where the queen takes pity upon him and gives him the task of finding out what women most desire but if he fails he will be executed. The knight then searches about for the answer asking every woman he can find for the answer to his question. He gets conflicting answers from each woman he asks until he comes across an old hag. The hag makes a deal with him that she will give him the answer if he carries out any request of her choice when she calls for it later on, to which the knight agrees. The hag tells him that what women most desire is power over men. The knight gives this answer to the queen who spares him. When he returns to the hag she makes her request, “Before this court I ask you, sir knight, to

By ‘othering’ the male species and making them sub-human, Margaret can successfully exercise control in her realm. She also employs this tactic in The Hunting of the Hare in which Wat, a male, is a hare being hunted and assuming a secondary and fragile position. However her anxiety of authorship recurs. After assigning animal counterparts for the male species in The Blazing World, she quickly reiterates that she indeed receives power from the emperor. The empress and the Duchess, both as Margaret in a fragmented state, are informed and educated by priests and statesmen, both male, of the affairs of the government and the church. These figures, which could arguably also represent elements of Margaret’s own psyche particularly the internalized male gaze, attempt to justify their exclusion of women from places of worship and matters of the state as they are “importunate persuasions” or threatening figures of change (1782). Furthermore, when she herself describes the power one could exercise in their own world, she does so by using masculine pronouns; “he may create a world of what fashion and government he will…as he pleases…as he thinks best…also he may alter that world…” (1784). Thus, Margaret once again crumbles under the pressure of anxiety of authorship due to fear of social backlash.

“Quiet, modest, and unassuming in manner and appearance, there is beneath this quiet exterior an intense energy, a comprehensive intellect, a resolute will, and an executive force, which is found in few of the stronger sex, and which mingled with the tenderness and grace of refined womanhood eminently qualifies her to become and independent power.” (Pierpont 54)

       Although Alexander Pope's, "The Rape Of The Lock" and Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" are both witty satires, they differ on their style, intention, and mood.

Patricia Lockwood’s The Rape Joke is a risky composition- not because it discloses information about Lockwood’s personal rape experience, but because it does so from a comedic stance, ridiculing the unfortunate event and the events leading up to and after it. While the creation of the poem was prompted due to the sexual assault she experienced, the content and subject are not centered around the incident or the assaulter but around rape culture and the sociological concept of victim blaming, from both society and oneself. There is no such thing as a rape joke-the joke is the incredulous ways society has guided people to respond to it.

related to mind and that it is necessary for feminism to be truly a movement for both the gender and not just as womenism. And the responses to the questions related to rape would blow the mind. 40% chose psychologically hurting a person of any gender, the next 40% chose having power over the person and the last 20% vouched for sexual assault. This clearly proves that rape is not gender oriented.

The Rape of the Lock is a staple of neoclassical writing; it includes wit and wit is characterized by parallelism and balance. It contains epic conventions such as war (between the sexes), epic game (played on the “velvet plain” of the card table), a journey (to the underworld), and battle. Pope writes by describing the man as the hero. But Finch writes her poetry in regards to women.

Society’s view of women have changed over time, but have always had objectifying tendencies. During the 18th century, cosmetic alteration to natural beauty and materialism heightened, which resulted in a change in the way society viewed women. This change objectified women and scrutinized them more than in previous time periods. Authors such as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift convey these views throughout their writings. Pope’s Rape of the Lock exposes the materialism used in objectifying women, mainly in the upper-class societal levels. The plot of the story centers a materialistic goal, as the lock of hair that was cut from a woman's head became so called “evidence” of a man’s sexual conquest. Other sexual conquests, forced or not, are