Homoeroticism

deeper into Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, one can find issues of female sexuality, homoeroticism, and gender roles. Many read Dracula as an entertaining story full of scary castles, seductive vampires, and mysterious forces, yet at the same time, they are being bombarded with descriptions of sex, images of rape, and homosexual relationships. In Francis Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, Stoker's presentation of homoeroticism is taken, reworked, and presented in a different, stronger light. Coppola does

The Act of Sodomy in Florence During the Italian Renaissance During the Italian Renaissance, the sexual environment of fifteenth-century Florentine society is described as Florentine men partaking in some kind of same-sex experience. These same-sex acts were not just wrong doings, but a fundamental part of Florentine masculine identity. More specifically I will focus on sodomy, the act of anal or oral sex, which can be heterosexual or homosexual. What I will be analyzing in this paper is the term

In the diverse categories of monsters, there are specific types of monsters which are “cursed by a bite”—Vampires, Zombies and Werewolves (Kaplan 2012: 136). Perhaps vampires are the most interesting of all. Vampires don`t morph into a howling hairy creature at the sight of full-moon and they are not controlled together by a sorcerer; rather they assimilate among us as gentle cannibals. The term vampire has been around for centuries. From Dracula (Stoker 1897) to Twilight (Meyer 2005), vampire culture

emasculated state, while Ripper is fit and agile, a simple "string" has rendered the British Officer immobile; weak lacking the power, strength or energy needed to perform physically demanding tasks. Moreover, there is a hint of homoeroticism. In a desperate attempt to learn the codes from Ripper, Mandrake attempts to use psychology by stating: "Give me the code now, and if those devils come back and try any rough stuff, we’ll fight them together, boy! Like we did just now on the

Did you know that homosexuality is not a mental or emotional disorder? Homosexuality has become quite a controversial topics amongst our society. Most people who realize they are homosexual are too scared to admit to the public who they really are. Then you have others who are openly confident about their sexuality as gay or lesbian. This issue has become more and more talked about and has developed multiple media acknowledgements. Homosexuality can be broken down into several different views. For

through Eliot’s criticism of hyper-masculinity and heterosexual relations in the modern era through allusions to the myth of Philomela and the “young man carbuncular” scene in “The Fire Sermon.” Along with this, Eliot stages scenes charged with homoeroticism to further challenge ideas of traditional masculinity. Homoerotic scenes such as the “hyacinth girl” scene in “The Burial of the Dead” and the Mr. Eugenides scene in “The Fire Sermon” suggest an intensity and enticement towards male-male relations

Finishing a television series is like the ending of another world. What happens next? The show Friends was that show for many people. The sitcom remained on-air for 10 years, beginning in 1994 and closing in 2004. During its time of existence, it was manipulative to the society (“Friends Central.”). One episode specifically was influential on the 1990s society. This episode was the very first event that occurred in the show Friends. In the beginning of “The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate (Pilot)”

Ancient Mediterranean morals in the Greco-Roman culture revolved around ideas of restraint, or self-mastery. Ethics of the Ancient Mediterranean world could be as stringent as: “Do not desire more than is your due by your station of birth,” and over the years transgressed into shorter moral precepts like, “though shall not covet” and eventually, the Greek “In nothing too much.” Lack of self-mastery, or lack of control, is known as akrasia. It was believed that if an individual chose to follow their

Oscar Wilde was an Irish novelist, playwright, and poet. He is recognized as one of the foremost figures of the late nineteenth-century aesthetic movement, centered on the doctrine of “art for art’s sake”, supporting an emphasis on aesthetic value rather than social-political or moral themes. Wilde was born into an intellectual Irish family on October 16th, 1854. His father was an aural surgeon and his mother was a poet. She established a literary salon through which she exposed Wilde and his siblings

to Begum Jaan’s body. She rubbed her back, slept with her and enjoyed such great freedom that all other maid servants were jealous of her: “Rabbu and Begum Jaan were the subject of their gossip during leisure hours” (Chughtai, 19). The hints of homoeroticism become rather apparent at the end when the narrator, much to her horror, experiences the act of