The Work The Lust By Susan Minot

Aubrey’s mum turned up and told Aubrey that she didn’t come because some days are too hard

After doing something every day for many years, it becomes a habit that is extremely hard to break. A habit such as lust can often be harder to break than alcohol or cigarette addictions because it is not something you buy, but something that is readily available everywhere you goes. For men there will always be good looking women or things you want but cannot have or afford. I understand that he wanted so bad to turn from his lustful ways and please God, but overcoming lust is extremely difficult when the things that result in lust are all around.

This story was written in the first-person perspective. More specifically, the story is a dramatic monologue in which the narrator is responding to ambiguous questions asked by an ambiguous character. The narrator is a major participant taking part in the story as she is the main character, but she isn’t necessarily a reliable source of information because of her extremely emotional state of mind. She is repressing memories from the night of the incident and from her life in general, and this is shown when she says, “I hate to repeat it, my life” (41), and “I don’t want to talk about her” (43). The narrator is also highly unreliable because she isn’t even certain of the validity of the story she is telling. She says, “What? Did I say that?...Then maybe I do remember it, it’s all so confusing and…” (45). Because this story is first-person, we can know only what the narrator reveals. We don’t know the questions being asked of the narrator or the response of that person, and the narrator doesn’t always finish her sentences or thoughts, either. She drifts off and this is shown by the abundant use of ellipses. This is when the reader starts to speculate what is being left out of the narration. The narrator is repressing memories and refusing to talk about them, like when she says, “I don’t want to talk about it again” (41), so there is some

eparated by generations and nationalities, Philip Roth’s novel Goodbye, Columbus and Ayad Akhtar’s play Disgraced have a few underlying themes in common. A substantial shared theme in these texts is women’s sexuality and pleasure. Each story has a male protagonist, whom the readers and audience are supposed to sympathize with. Because of this, the male gaze is applied to the featured women of these stories. In Goodbye, Columbus, Neil analyzes and judges every move his love interest, Brenda, makes. Somehow through this, he never bothers to consider her thoughts on sex or pleasure. In Disgraced, Emily’s sexuality is seen as overt and promiscuous. This makes her husband, Amir, uncomfortable, and the audience feels this strain. Both couples use

As the article is read, different factors propel the writing to its current standing. No factor could be eliminated from this writing without a significant decrease in quality. The article never lost my attention with its absolutely remarkable content. Notably, an unclear purpose arises as the reader finishes the text, due to the contradicting message at the very beginning of the article. Read the beginning, seen is a message of tragic internet disasters, but finishing the piece leads to discussion of a change in social views concerning sexuality as the author call for the loss of framework for a relationship to be seen only as a man and a woman. Nevertheless, this piece leaves the reader curious for more, which is a staggering technique to seal the piece to a holding finish as it leaves the mind and the soul of the reader rather at ease or completely stirred

In today’s society, the words “education” and a “better life” fit hand and hand with the other. The desire to create a higher quality lifestyle and the thirst for knowledge is a recurring theme in The Achievement of Desire. Much like Richard Rodriguez, my parents were not native to America and therefore, learning a new language and adapting to the culture was an indefinite struggle. Growing up, many Americans perceived my family and I as “too Chinese” and in the eyes of the Chinese, I was “too American”; this concept was only intensified after my trip to China in 2011. The addition of Western-style education in the household of a second generation American family unintentionally alienates the family members who participate in the schooling

Fracking is the process of injecting liquid at high pressure into rock to force open ground and extract oil or gas. Fracking is becoming very popular due to the amount of money large companies make by doing so. However, in the article “Burning Love” by Elizabeth Kolbert, published in the New Yorker on December 5, 2011 she argues that although fracking has made individuals and businesses wealthy, it should be banned. In this essay, I will analyze Elizabeth Kolbert’s essay by identifying and detailing her purpose, goal, audience, and four rhetorical strategies used in this article.

Ernaux is executing a reclamation of female sexual desire in Passion Simple. She is taking back power from the patriarchal society in which female desire is constructed, and reframing it from a female perspective. The author described the songs which “bouleversaient” her and empowered her to live her passion, “Les chansons accompagnaient et légitimaient ce que j’étais en train de vivre.” The accompanying thoughts and events included a night when, naked, and in search of a beer, she was reminded of “les femmes, seules ou mariées, mères de famille, qui, dans le quartier de mon enfance, recevaient en cachette un homme l’après-midi”. Finding herself in a situation that would have gathered the same societal and neighbourly reproach as the women she knew as a child, the author thought of these women “avec une profonde satisfaction.” Her inclusion of this memory gives these women, who followed their own desires, but were shamed for it, a voice, a representation of themselves through a popular medium, and one which divorces itself from the patriarchal taboo. It also leaves women in a position of dominance. It was they who invited men into their homes during the afternoon, when their husbands were either at work, or non-existent. The women had the control of being in their own environment and fulfilling their own sexual desires at will. It is this dominating position that Ernaux makes clear in Passion Simple.

The narrator recalls her mother instilling her with the value to “do everything you can to get men to look at you, and when they do, pretend they don’t exist” (124). As a child, the narrator was dressed in clothes that were “attention-getting [and] revealing” (124). This hyper-sexualization of herself by her mother as a child in addition to her father’s lack of emotion towards her leads the narrator to lust for sexual attention for men. The narrator finds herself with a “wish to please, to charm” and the tendency to “almost never with[hold]” (126). Vadim’s constant “searching [his] dictionary for ways to tell [the narrator]” that he adores her makes the narrator’s heart “run out of [her]” because “[her] father never learned enough English to tell [her] how he felt about [her]” (147).

Born in 1920 and died of Arteriosclerosis cardiovascular disease in 1995, Chang had a legendary life. Her grandmother was the daughter of a great politician and diplomat, Li Hung-Chang in Qing Dynasty. Living in a noble family did not lead Chang to a happy childhood, though. Chang’s mother left Chang and her younger brother when they were both young. Thereafter, Chang suffered from domestic violence caused by her stepmother and drug-addicted father.

There are several characters who are present in this play and who have played an important role in shaping the lives of women’s. Though the society which we live today forces women to do things and acts which may be oppressive to them. This is the things which go against the gender rules and which lead to assimilation which in our case, we are discussing the

    The protagonists in both Bharati Mukherjee's "The Tenant" and Susan Minot's "Lust" are extremely promiscuous; both have many sexual relationships with little emotional involvement and no commitment. While the two protagonists display many of the same behaviors and often have similar motivations, their reasoning and reactions sometimes differ. "The Tenant" and "Lust" offer two different perspectives into the social expectations that would lead someone to be so irresponsible with their relationships.

This paper is on the story Lust. It is about a very young teenage girl and her recount of all her sexual experiences while attending a Boarding School. At first, she almost enjoys retelling of her many experiences but as the story goes on her tone changes to one which allows the readers to see just how sad and depressed and almost ashamed this young girl is about the fact that she has let boys take advantage of her need to want to feel loved. At the end of this the reader should have a good understanding of the turmoil this young girl has gone through because of the careless decisions she has made all because of strong desire for the need to feel loved.

In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy on to the female figure which is styled accordingly, in their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness Women displayed as sexual object is the leit-motiff of erotic spectacle: from pin ups to strip tease, from Ziegfield to Busby Berkeley, she holds the look, plays to and signifies male

This theme of lust producing a dysfunctional relationship is seen in Euripides’ Medea as well, as a result of Medea’s passion for her former disenchanted husband, Jason. In the play, Medea, Jason and their children were exiled to Corinth where Jason took a new bride. This is a common conflict in relationships as one partner may hold passion for the other but it is not reciprocated as the other has lost interest. “Where are the oaths? Your right hand given in the greatest trust?” (Euripides, Medea, 21-22). Similar to Phaedra lusting over Hippolytus rather than Theseus, Jason has betrayed his wedding vows with Medea for another woman In further comparison to a humanistic dysfunctional relationship, Medea follows up this betrayal with pure rage