Vivia Nightshade's Carnival Erotica

The Scarlet Letter and the Monica Lewinsky Scandal are stories about mistakes and their repercussions. In both stories, we focus on women having an affair with a man and the backlash that is received for doing so, but we also are asked whether the punishment they receive is necessary. The women are destroyed by what transpires and so, and so we must find a solution to these problems.

In the 2005 film The Wedding Crashers directed David Dobkin show many normal gender stereotypes and gender inequalities that are still present in today’s society. The film mainly focuses on two divorce mediators Jeremy and John who enjoy sneaking into wedding parties in order to get drunk off free booze and seduce bridesmaids. Certainly, the film exposes the bromance relationship that Jeremy and John have, which opposes the hegemonic masculinity that society renders on. Their attendance to Secretary Williams’s party exhibits the patriarchy of a white, rich, and powerful man. And lastly the way the guys view women as part of objectification and women displaying sexual agency towards these two gentlemen has been able to change overtime in society where both concepts have become a norm.

Women take an oppressive role and Rachel is sure to not be taken under a man’s hold. While faking an engagement with a man involved in political affairs, Eeben Axelroot, she knows how to use her physical features to make him expose his intentions. In addition to that, she uses what she knows about others through Axelroot to her advantage. At one point, while interested in marrying a rich ambassador, she says “ After what I know about that man, I can wrap him around my little finger” (Kingsolver 428). Rachel also understands that although men keep women in the house daily, they cannot go on a week without them cooking or supporting their

In John Updike’s “A&P”, a young 19 year old cashier named Sammy was greatly distracted by three girls that one day entered the A&P grocery store he worked at. The girls, wearing just bikinis in the grocery store, troubled Sammy and distracted him from work. Sammy was eventually interested in the girls to the point that he would do anything to impress them or catch their eyes. Later, the girls went to Sammy’s register and were confronted by the manager, who condemned their attire. This was when Sammy saw his opportunity to impress the girls and acted on it without any thought. Sammy initially didn’t hesitate to quit, but shortly after leaving the A&P, seemed like he wanted to go back and change the decision he had made. This was when he realized he couldn’t go back. In Updike’s short story, a common theme or central idea was found that people typically make irrational decisions when drawn by desire or lust.

By the year 2015, it has been long since brothels have lined the streets of well-known cities to the extent in which they did during the early 1900’s. While there are still a few legal brothels in Nevada and in some foreign countries, we usually find similar sorts in the forms of gentleman clubs or strip clubs nowadays. When examining the early 1900’s and our current modernity, there are, of course, both extreme and subtle similarities and differences. In Karen Abbott’s novel, Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys and the Battle for America’s Soul, there is no pronounced comparison of our modern world with the one of the past, but we can insightfully see that we are not so different. Prostitution, sex trafficking, drugs,

It is normal for people to quit their job for rational reasons, but rarely will people quit their job for a girls attention. Three females enter A&P dressed in swimsuits. Sammy has a hard time focusing on what's critical. From enjoying girls shopping, to quitting your job, Sammy makes a decision that he’d never thought he would make. In John Updike’s “A&P”, appearance plays a big role with Queenie, power is constantly being used and principle is be being shown.

The women author Leslie Bell interviews in Selections from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom share their stories of how they found sexual freedom by not submitting to their environments beliefs. Bell describes to the reader the quandaries of these women who decided to reject the principles of their society and how they chose to deal with the tension it causes. Society leads people to the decisions they choose, which is why it causes conflict between its codes and the concept of individualism. In reaction to this conflict, each of Bell’s patients, mentioned in the passage, acted defensively in a way they felt was best to achieve their own freedom.

In the world of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s nest women are generally considered less superior than men, however in the middle of feminists movements in the workforce and general equality it was becoming an occurrence to see more women in higher positions of power with higher salaries within their workforce. R.P McMurphy is presented with contrasting character views of this change in preference for the traditional ‘housewife’ perspective of women. Characterising women as either “Ball Cutters” or “Whores”, McMurphy's perspective is said to be archaically inappropriate. “Ball Cutters” are defined as women who take control and aim to dominate over men exposing a particular vulnerability and hence creating a sense of weakness within men. “Whores” are defined as women who serve as pleasure tool for men, powerless and submissive

Imagine growing up in a body that doesn’t feel your own and living with the fear to tell the world who you really are. This was Selene Garon’s life 20 years ago. She is defined as a homosexual, however in her eyes, she is a regular human being and although life has put her into complicated situations; she tries to overcome obstacles each day after day as everyone else. Selene knows the difficulties to preserve a hair salon business operating, but she also has the necessity to maintain herself economically. She is conscious that the city of Sandy Springs is growing by renovating its streets and constructing new businesses, however she fears it will not be easy to preserve her hair salon in the same location due of the increasing rent in Sandy Springs.

Red Harvest’s femme fatale, Dinah Brand, is not the epitome of seduction and yet, she is able to manipulate the men around her to her own needs. Described in harsh detail, she is not the seductress that one would expect; ‘Her coarse hair – brown – needed trimming and was parted crookedly. One side of her upper lip had been rouged higher than the other. Her dress was a particularly unbecoming wine color’ . Presented as badly dressed and disarrayed woman who has little sexual appeal. Yet, she can have her ‘pick of Poisonville’s men’ . Dinah Brand gains her power through her ability to manipulate those around her as she desires. It is Dinah Brand who ‘seems to have had everyone on her string at one time or another’ and use them to her own greedy

Because of her upbringing she has sat herself on a sort of pedestal, and at the despair she feels at the suicide of her young husband she was flung of her pedestal. This unwilling dethronement has led her to imagine a world where her sexual discrepancies merely do not exist, and to a place in her mind where it seems fine to fake who she is. This imagination and dreaming is almost exactly the opposite of

Sammy is the young man in question and when he sees these young women he ogle’s them throughout their travels in the store. Sammy notices other male co-workers ogling them and it bothers him because these men are married but Sammy feels ambiguous because he likes looking at the young women in swim suites. Sammy feels he can do better than working at the store and feels he is meant for more. When the young women are ready to check out they go to Sammy register but the manager comes and tells the young women that there dress is not appropriate for the store. The leader of the pack tells the manager that she was made to come after some food. But all the while Sammy was in his own world dreaming of parties. After the young left his register Sammy quiet and went after the young women. He was hoping that they had seen him stand up for them so to gain their favor and respect. Now Sammy is jobless and without

Imagine two alpha males dominant and secure in the professional jungle, yet in their personal lives vulnerable and less dominant. Such are the stories of Dr. Landis in “My Sister’s Marriage” by Cynthia Marshall Rich and Blake in “The Five-Forty-Eight” by John Cheever. These two alpha males have similarities and differences, in the way they view women as the weaker vessels, the way people react to them and how both are changed forever by their own personal choices.

Additionally, Penny’s discussion on many feminist issues in the lens of neoliberalism is refreshing and thought-provoking. The way Penny explores what neoliberalism and market-driven society has done to sex, love, and intimacy is captivating. The way the market teaches young women to be sexual objects is not a new discussion, and Penny does address it alongside the Internet, but Penny has more nuanced thoughts; she writes, “the social cost of actually having sex, rather than merely appearing to want to have it, is what damages women; sexual control, not sex itself, is what harms all of us” (110). There is a defined line for women in society; women can want sex and appear sexually attractive, but once they take control and have sex, there is an issue because the control has been taken from the power-holder. The market is the instigator in sexual control. Further, Penny argues the cycle does not end there: “as all human affect collapses

To do so, Levy turns to the experiences of several young women whom she interviews. From her interpretations of these experiences, Levy reaches the conclusion that these women’s sexual nature revolves around their need