ipl-logo

Summary Of Janet's Pulchritude

812 Words4 Pages

Therefore, as an ambassador, Janet’s attitude when encountering the patriarchal structures is tacit. Janet fails to meet the expectations towards conventional female behavior because she is nescient of how gender is constructed and functions in the alternate universes. At a cocktail Party with Joanna’s, for example, most women and men try to be as attractive as possible. However, to Janet, this is unconceivable. The materialness of pulchritude is the initial enigma Joanna and Janet discovers:
[My] hair feels as if it 's falling down, my makeup 's too heavy, everything 's out of place from the crotch of the panty-hose to the ridden-up bra to the ring whose stone drags it around under my knuckle. And I don 't even wear false eyelashes. Janet …show more content…

' and guides Moustache 's hand (his forefinger, actually) along her face. (...) This mad chick doesn 't seem so nice to Moustache any more. He swallows. 'What do you fight about - girls? ' 'You are kidding me, 'says Janet. 'We fight about bad temper - what else? Temperamental incompatibility. Not that it 's so common as it used to be but if you can 't stand her and she can 't stand you, what 's to be done? ' 'Sure, ' says Ginger Moustache. 'Well, goodbye. ' 26
.The mustached man eludes Janet. The third dialogue is the apogee. It becomes confrontational because the dialogue discusses the exact problem Joanna world has with Janet; feminism, which is more than ideology for Janet, but her life lived. 'For example, ' he went on, (...) you have to take into account that there are more than two thousand rapes in New York City alone in every particular year. (...) Men are physically stronger than women, you know. ' (Picture me on the back of the couch, clinging to her hair like a homuncula, battering her on the top of the head until she doesn 't dare to open her mouth.) 28 When he makes another ardent advance, Joanna becomes uncomfortable and absconds the party. While leaving, the drunk host subterfuges an embraces in order to receive a good-bye kiss. Joanna, complies to avoid a

Show More
Related
79 Words | 1 Pages

Daniel Shays led a rebellion after the U.S. went into economic depression. This caused the Massachusetts government to seize several farms and sell them to re-gain profits. Shays led a mob of 1,000 enraged Massachusetts farmers to get weaponry from a state warehouse in August 1786. The rebellion was a fail because Shays and other fellow comrades were arrested. All in all, Daniel Shays led a rebellion because many farmers plots of land were taken and sold for profit.

Read More
1304 Words | 6 Pages

It was all a reflection of newly found joy in her tradition. However, as she got older, Joanna started to struggle with some tenets of her religion, like where the Church stood when it came to women's rights and homosexuality. Joanna’s adolescent and early adulthood faith was not challenged by a calculated act of revelation of trickery, but rather by a sudden shift in her awareness and priority coming into clash with an inflexible system. It is her ideal dream school of BYU that Brooks sees punishing her favorite professor, Cecilia Konchar Farr, for the feminist views that had started to open new possibilities for Brooks. When the Church excluded a group of feminists because they spoke out about a church controversy, it brought up emotions in Brooks that made her question her own stance.

Read More
458 Words | 2 Pages

After reading the critical essay “Neon Gothic: Lost in Translation” by Wendy Haslem, her central argument was found to be that of how Lost in Translation (Coppola,2003) presents a nontraditional approach to a romance in comparison to the expected. Haslem goes on to support her claim of an unconventional romance by using examples of scenes from the film, such as the scene where Bob and Charlotte share a goodbye kiss. In traditional romantic films, there is no mistake in understanding the intent of a kiss. However, in Lost in Translation, the intent of the kiss shared between Bob and Charlotte is not very direct and arises a lot of questions to its meaning. Another piece of textual evidence found to support the claim is the connection made between the two main characters throughout the film.

Read More
1674 Words | 7 Pages

This essay argues that the gendered performance of the characters is due to Linda Nicholson’s biological foundationalism as explored in Interpreting Gender (1999). The differences in reactions between the men and women of the story are not

Read More
827 Words | 4 Pages

Although sexually abstinent,Miss Lonely Hearts dates frequently, but none lead to long term relationships. Her lack of intimacy bothers Lisa, who sees a parallel with Jeff’s avoidance in their relationship. At one point, a date attempts to rape her, and again, Jeff observes but takes no action against this violence. Nonetheless, however, he does attempt to intervene when Miss Lonely Hearts attempts

Read More
873 Words | 4 Pages

Lykurgos changed the politics the economy and all social aspects in Sparta. Many Philosophers, poets, and historian wrote about the Spartan strategies. Polybius was one of the main. In Polybius's day, he wrote many books about Sparta and their ways. Also how Sparta was one of the strongest and longest lasting communities.

Read More
615 Words | 3 Pages

The prejudice that the author brings forward strongly is the notion of feminism. The author’s main purpose of writing this novel is to examine the role of women played around

Read More
624 Words | 3 Pages

In the last Socratic over the short story, “The Approximate Cost of Loving Caroline” by John Green, many claims and questions were made regarding this story. Some of the claims brought up new ideas but few of them challenged my claim. Even though my claim was challenged, I still believe that it represents the gender lens in this short story. My claim in this socratic circle was the characters tone of voice, the way they talk and think, is influenced by gender roles and gender stereotypes.

Read More
1625 Words | 7 Pages

Jane Martin’s play “Beauty” shows us two different versions of the problems women are facing current while living in today’s world and taking a walk in

Read More
708 Words | 3 Pages

The short story has expressed the theme through a character’s first exprience of sexuality. “I never knew this would be so embarrassing! I can’t watch them anymore so I turn around to Brad who still is”(page 4). Deidre feels very embarrassed by watching her dad having conversation with Rita.

Read More
1442 Words | 6 Pages

In Kiss and Tell, Alain de Botton humorously describes a situation between tactless and socially oblivious parents and their uncomfortable adult daughter, Isabel, who is on a date with her new boyfriend. Using immaturity and a lack of etiquette in the actions of the characters, multiple examples of irony, and the anticipation of Isabel’s father’s actions which all ultimately lead to a comedic effect, de Botton produces a universal experience that brings humor to the audience while commenting on family dynamics. To depict the immaturity and lack of etiquette in the actions of the characters, de Botton uses juxtaposition in the setting, onomatopoeia, and other literary devices. De Botton intentionally sets his story in a theater with an “elegantly

Read More
939 Words | 4 Pages

At the same time, she gives women a perspective on men’s feeling about women’s rights. Charlotte Gilman uses a variety of rhetorical devices in the short story to make her point that the establishment of societal gender roles causes the viewpoint of male supremacy over females. One of the first rhetorical devices that an audience may notice is Gilman’s unique pace and syntax that she uses to show the different minds of men and women. She uses a variety of sentences like “[w]himsical, capricious, charming, changeable, devoted to pretty clothes and always “wearing them well,” as the esoteric phase has it” (Gilman 1).

Read More
915 Words | 4 Pages

Kingston’s mother exposes the story of her aunt to her as somewhat of a warning. Kingston’s mother explains to her how crucial it is to understand that what she does as a woman in their society is looked upon closely

Read More
1443 Words | 6 Pages

Inequality is faced daily by people of all races, religions, and genders. Women, for example, are still faced with the crisis of equal pay in the workplace and constant sexism from employers and a growing pop culture. The inequality is seen in the book Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell. Through a highly patriarchal community, the women in the book, especially Ree, are brought against harsh conditions, both physical and mental. Through the analysis of female characters in the novel Winter’s Bone, Daniel Woodrell, through categorizing women in the three groups of caregivers, survivors, and prisoners, comments on the inequality women face in society.

Read More
991 Words | 4 Pages

Unlike other contemporary novels coupling slavery and racism, ‘A Mercy’ of Toni Morrison (2008) depicts the situation when slavery is deprived of its racial situation. In other words, by separating race from slavery, the novel gives audience a chance to see “what it might have been like to be a slave but without being raced” (Neary, 2008); and a chance to wonder whether it is the color itself or the colonial society dominated by patriarchal and imperial powers the reason for slavery in the final decade of the seventeenth century. The plot of the novel is constructed on scattered piecemeal narratives of traditionally ignored perspectives: white lower-class women, white servants, an abandoned white girl, and a black female slave. The physical

Read More

More about Summary Of Janet's Pulchritude

Related Topics

Open Document