Venus in Furs

The merchant claims that he knows nothing of long-suffering wives. Rather, if his wife were to marry the devil, she would overmatch even him. The Merchant claims that there is a great difference between Griselde's exceptional obedience and his wife's more common cruelty. The Merchant has been married two months and has loathed every minute of it. The Host asks the Merchant to tell a tale of his horrid wife.

Regardless, her poor emotional state is proven through many lines in this lai, especially when she tells the knight “I grant you my love and my body” (115). She has finally come up with a method to “get away” from her husband in this decision. Throughout the rest of the story it is not once said that the wife came to love her new husband or her family, on the contrary, she does not seem happy in the following scenes. However, being afraid of her husband and his emotional violence, it is rational that she would try to find safety with someone else, even if that means giving away her “love,”—likely the appearance of such rather than actual love—and her

Hope was curious about how the old lady was going to accomplishes this. The old lady brought out a book of enchantments, and said, "I'm a witch." Although may were afraid of witches, hope was not. Both hope and the old lady began developing a way to hurt the knight. The old lady was able to lure the knight to her when he was on his quest to save his life. The knight agreed to her proposal to do anything she wanted. The old lady became a beautiful maiden to make the night feel content after he agrees to be her husband. As the knight was getting ready to lay with his young beautiful wife, the witch cast a spell on the knight that paralyzed him from the neck down. After the spell was cast, Hope appear. The knight's eyes widened as he recognized Hope. Hope walked up to the knight and whispered in his ear, "Payback's a

Although it is the wife who is always looking for a husband in her personal life, in the Wife’s tale, it is the man who is forced to find what it is that all women desire. In the end he is obligated to marry, while the Wife is always excited to marry her next husband. The Wife wants the woman in the marriage to make the decisions and to have power, which is also seen in the old woman in her tale. In her tale, the old woman basically tricks the man into marrying her, and then into kissing her. This gives her control and she can then reveal her true self.

After hours and hours of training, Arthur called it a night. He returned to his quarters and lay in his bed until sunup, with visions of stripping Guinevere out of her bridal peignoir filling his mind. He pictured kissing every bit of her every graceful curve while professing his undying love for her. In bed, he’d do whatever she desired, whatever she needed. And if she hurt, if the act of losing her virginity pained her, Arthur would kiss away her tears. He was hers.

Despite the fact that the knight despises her, the old woman persists on getting the knight to love her. While the knight is complaining about how terrible his marriage is, the old woman says he will give him the choice of she either being old and unattractive, or young and more attractive, making males more attracted to her. She tried to give him the choice of which way he wanted her, when in all reality, she was gaining more control over him by allowing him to think he had control over her. After this, the old woman

She enslaves her man and engages him to fulfill the behest of life force. Sergius proposes her to marry; for the marriage is the medium to procreate new and better

However, naming this figurine “Venus of Willendorf” leads the viewers to a misconception of the figure’s purpose. Naming the figurine after the greek goddess of love and beauty is simply an attempt to fill in the gaps of what we don’t know nor understand. As there is no knowledge about her purpose, origins, and who made her. The most we can say about her is she is an anthropological object. As Conkey and Tringham states, in order to categorize these statues with a certain meaning we “ need to take into account the fact that there are certain...multiple perceptions and interpretations of the figurines by the prehistoric social actor themselves.” There is absolutely no evidence to indicate that the figure shared a function similar to that of

Aside from the Sun and moon, Venus seduces the heavens with its glistening brilliance as the brightest object in the sky. Beneath Venus’ radiant appearance lies a dreadfully divergent, multifaceted surface. The gentle winds and dense clouds of Venus unceasingly neutralize the atmospheric temperatures allowing the conflicting qualities to peacefully coexist. Venus orbits at a leisurely pace enchanted by the love and beauty achieved by harmonizing extreme differences. While imposing these qualities, Venus instructs people to diplomatically reconcile opposing forces, glisten in the midst of diversity, and relish in the elements of

Desdemona. who has just become married believes women love their husbands and would do anything, but Emilia, who has been married for a while knows the truth that some women do not love their husbands. When Emilia tells this to Desdemona is baffled by the thought because she knows she will not cheat, but Emilia is realistic when says she might not but others

The topic I chose is the Venus of Willendorf. The Venus of Willendorf is one of the oldest and most complete surviving examples of Paleolithic art. The statue was found in 1908 by archeologist Josef Szombathy near the town of Willendorf, Austria. There have been a lot of ideas about the date of the Venus including the same period as the cave paintings at Lascaux in France, but it was later determined that statue is from about 25,000-22,000 BCE. It stands about 4 ½ inches tall, small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. The statue was carved from oolitic limestone and tinted with red ochre. This limestone is uncharacteristic of that region, leaving room for interpretation as to where the stone came from and how it got to Willendorf.

The maid views love as a power dynamic that requires women to offset their socially established disadvantage with cleverness. Despina believes that women learn to be unfaithful because men are that way”. Despina, a lower class woman, believes women and men should be equally treated. It shows that in the era, women have an awareness of being equal to men. Also, I found that a maid’s subordinate position was raised in the eighteenth century.

In the painting, a young, life-sized woman is seen dressed in a very classy manner inside of a bedroom in a palace. The top of her dress seems to be falling off of her breasts and shoulder a bit, and her right leg is exposed. Sshe is bending backwards, and her facial expression seems to be full of shock, disgust, anger, and fear, as if something horrific had just happened to her. Her right arm is raised, almost as if she is surrendering and saying “don’t hurt me” or “I didn’t ask for this”. In the lower left area of the portrait, there are two important items in which her face is pointed towards: broken eggs on a silver platter and a dagger, which represent lost virginity and self-harm, respectively (DAI). The motion of the woman’s body, her facial expression and clothes she is wearing, and the iconographic items in the painting reveal that she is Lucretia, the woman who was raped. According to the didactic, Lucretia was the wife of a Roman noble, and was raped by Sextus, the son of Tarquin, who was the king of Rome. Tarquin’s nephew, Brutus, led the rebellion against the king, which eventually led to his banishment. After she was raped, Lucretia told the incident to her brother and father – and probably because of how guilty she felt – stabbed herself with the dagger that Sextus used to threaten her with. Interestingly, the dagger in the painting is not bloody and Sextus is not present, although this appeared to have happened right after the rape. Therefore, it makes sense

Manet broke social norms as well as, formal rules, composition rules, and rules of subject. Seeing a modern woman whom has intentionally discarded her clothes was absurd in this era. Manet made the woman vivid and flat to gravitate attention towards her as much as possible. He also broke rules of naturalism, by the disjunction and collapsing of space as stated in the video. Manet is intentionally playing with art and making a statement, by not applying the basic rules such as colors meshing, space between figures…etc. He borrowed his composition from a print by Raffaello Sanzio, a painter and architect of the High Renaissance. Manet took the concept of landscape, and subject matter of clothed men and nude women from Giorgio Castelfranco, a

She attempts to reason with Tarquin, reminding him to “Reward not hospitality with such black payment as thou hast pretended… he is no woodman that doth bend his bow to strike a poor unseasoned doe” (Shakespeare, lines 575-581). Her weak attempt at warding him off fails, but she never gets aggressive, she only hopes that he will change his mind. Victims of sexual assault often freeze in the moment of the assault: they are so horrified by the choice that their assaulter has made, and their brain is a mess. After pleading to let her go, she attempts demanding that “If ever man were moved with woman’s moans, be moved with my tears, my sighs, my groans… O if no harder than a stone thou art, melt at my tears and be compassionate! Soft pity enters at an iron gate” (Shakespeare, lines 587-595).