Camille Paglia

William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra “Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet” – Camille Paglia The prim and proper women and the strong and strapping men are no match for Shakespeare’s haze of character’s muddled together in Antony and Cleopatra. As always Shakespeare delivers a luminary cast of individuals that deviate from the socially accepted gender roles. As the audience works its way through the fierce genesis to the catastrophic resolution, it is

the law for alcohol. In society, teens of our nation are already considered an adult at 18, so why must young adults wait to be 21 in order to drink? In the U.S., society can already do so much when becoming of legal age. In 2014, according to Camille Paglia, PhD, Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts states: The National Minimum Drinking Age Act, passed by Congress 30 years ago this July, is a gross violation of civil liberties and must be repealed. It is absurd

Rape culture is based on the set of beliefs that encourages male sexual aggression and supports violence against women. Also, the objectification of women’s bodies and the misogynistic language are engrained into society to the point that men and women believe that rape is an inevitable fact of life. Therefore, women’s consent being neglected stems from the fact that men and women misunderstand each other’s sexual desire, especially in today’s ‘’hook-up culture’’. That being said, society’s misinterpretation

In Olive’s view Verena is a good and decent creature on whom she is able to influence easily especially Verena is still young (eighteen years). This wrong understanding of Verena causes Olive to be “haunted... with the fear that Verena would marry, a fate to which she was altogether unprepared to surrender her” (James, Bostonians 118). But her sister, the widowed Mrs. Luna, is convinced of the fact that marriage is normal and necessary for any woman. She states that: [Verena] would stay with

EBH: What I described does not occur in chapter 46 or on any page of Ignorance, nor does it occur in the Odyssey. I'm so intrigued by your "memory" of this fantasy scene from my fantasy version of this book. BEK: I saw it vividly, in both Ignorance and the Odyssey. I'm clearly one of the ignorant. You're one of the wicked, and I love it. EBH: Continue with your exegesis of 31. BEK: So many of the book's themes converge in this story, and I'm exasperated by the stale, simplistic "moral lesson"

The Manipulation of Gender Roles in Shakespeare’s Othello Of Shakespeare’s great tragedies, the story of the rise and fall of the Moor of Venice arguably elicits the most intensely personal and emotional responses from its English-speaking audiences over the centuries. Treating the subject of personal human relationships, the tragedy which should have been a love story speaks to both reading and viewing audiences by exploring the archetypal dramatic values of love and betrayal. The final source

The Representation of the Female in William Blake If William Blake was, as Northrop Frye described him in his prominent book Fearful Symmetry, "a mystic enraptured with incommunicable visions, standing apart, a lonely and isolated figure, out of touch with his own age and without influence on the following one" (3), time has proved to be the visionary's most celebrated ally, making him one of the most frequently written about poets of the English language. William Blake has become

The ongoing #metoo movement has prompted me to once again contemplate some deeper thoughts I once had about the female nature, specifically the female mind. All humans, male and female, to varying degrees have the combination of both male and female mind. The male mind is mostly exclusively found in men while the female mind is mostly exclusively found in women but everyone has elements of both, some more-so possess and express the opposite than others but everyone harbors them. As simplified

Makeover Feminism Most viewers of commercial television or consumers of popular magazines have seen striking images of women whose appearance has been dramatically altered. Many of these “made-over” women changed their body image through diet and exercise regimes, skillfully applied makeup, or elective cosmetic surgery. Possessed of higher education, prestigious careers, and families, these successful women often report that they felt some aspect of their appearance prevented them from

Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Teaching and Student Experience ABSTRACT: This paper focuses on novel approaches open to teachers of philosophy in particular, but more generally also to other university teachers, in the face of what Allan Bloom saw as the waning of a literary culture. It is argued that, although some of Bloom's suggestions regarding the successful engagement of students' interest-against overwhelming odds-are didactically valuable, he neglects precisely those avenues from which