The three scariest objects in this book are the “beast”, women, and trails. The book The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King is a very spooky book. The objects mean a whole lot to the plot in this book. The reason women are scary in this book is because the way they are thought of “They eat men, is what I’ve heard”(43,King). The reason they are talking about women is because they heard of a group of women in the forest that are savages and kill for sport. The problem is that they needed to go through that forest to reach to closest village in one night because there train derailed and they need a lot of people to hopefully get it back on the track. Of course they chose to go through the forest because it was there best option if they wanted to live the night from the beast. They arrived at the “savages” camp and realized that the women were not savages at all but monsters in size they where twice as big as any of them. The women didn’t help the rest of there crew with the train and the others died from the best, but the women helped the guys from the beast at night and was able to hurt the beast by shooting it in the leg. …show more content…
All but 3 beast murders have happened on the trials. The reason the beast is able to kill so many people on these trails is because they do not have nights which prohibits the beast from beasty. The trails are always dark and in the middle of the woods or in the middle of nowhere. Only one person has been able to live a beast attack on a trail and that is a little boy that saw all of his friends and family be torn apart piece by piece limb by limb he heard all the sounds all the
For centuries, women have been forced to live life on the outskirts of a male-dominated society. During the 1800’s, the opportunities for women were extremely limited and Mary Shelly does an excellent job portraying this in her gothic novel, Frankenstein. Furthermore, in this novel, Mary Shelly shows how society considers women to be possessions rather than independent human beings. In addition, the female characters rely heavily on men for support and survival, thus proving their inability to do it on their own. Lastly, the female characters in this novel are in many ways victimized by the male characters.
Women were always viewed as weak, dependent, and powerless in the Middle Ages. Not only is it a common view during that time period, but this also is often stereotyped labeled to women today as well. In the romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the hatred of women is portrayed throughout. However, while women are certainly looked down upon, they also are influential to the knights. This romance also portrays how a woman having different characteristics, could change the way she was viewed as well. Although women in the Middle Ages appeared to lack power, the women in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight have a hidden influence over the men and actually drive the action of the medieval romance.
Women are nurtured with different ideals than men, they are taught to behave a certain way and look a certain way. Virtuous, quiet, obedient, and proper, those are some of the attributes or values that young girls are taught to be like, that they carry with them for the majority of their lives. The cave is a familiar setting, in some way a sense of security even though it may not have a good impact, we are frightened to break free of what has been taught for generations. In the Allegory of the Cave, the prisoners were kept in the dark for so long they never questioned why; similarly, as children, it’s ingrained in to their minds they behave that way subconsciously without asking why they should be any different. As a child, I was influenced by my mother’s teachings but as a curious child I also questioned why, like why men were allowed to speak their minds but women were not, or why the men got to wear whatever they wanted while women had to stay modest. I often used to question, but as I grew older I stopped and understood that was the way it was always going to be. Childhood is comparable to oblivion in many aspects, the naivety in children overlook the prejudice of the world by being entranced by the world they conjured in their mind. The prisoners were so caught up in the shadows, they
In her critical essay, Anne K. Mellor is arguing that the deaths of the women in the text and the birth of the creature all represent Frankenstein’s desire to create a male dominated society while completely destroying the need for women. As Mellor states, “by stealing the female’s control over reproduction, Frankenstein has eliminated the female’s primary biological function and source of cultural power” (355). If Frankenstein were able to construct men from pieces of random corpses successfully, he would obliterate the woman’s primary function in society: to birth babies. Mellor states that Frankenstein’s primary motivation for his horrific actions is fueled by his fear of female sexuality. The treatment of females in this text is a reflection of the repression of sexual desire in the 18th century.
From the start of the book we can see that women in the book are
In the text the role of the female monster is played by Grendel 's mother. In which she has the embodiment of masculine energy and goes against the social expectations of what a woman should be and do in society. For example, Grendel’s mother has characteristics in which at the time warrior men should only have. In this society in the text women are monsters when they seek vengeance whereas men are seen as heros. For example,” Sorrowful journey to avenge her slain son” (1276-1278) In this quote we get the understanding that once her son was killed she wanted to kill the person who killed her son because of the love that she had for him and for that she was seen as a monster because that wasn’t an expected behavior of women to have in this society. In Beowulf this made her an outcast because she was seen as if she wasn 't fulfilling her womanly duties since she had the behavior trait of vendanges for her son. This is what made her a monster. If you aren’t the ideal women during this time then you are outcasted.That is why Grendel’s mother is seen as a monster and isn’t even given a name of her own. She is identified as “Grendel’s
The role of female characters in literature has gone through many transformations and radical changes. Until recently, women were often perceived as the other sex by many cultures. The remains can still be witnessed is several societies around the world. This notion obviously enabled the same view to thrive in literature. In epic fantasy, women can rarely stand alone. Many female characters’ purpose in the genre consists of the beautiful prize for the hero, the nurturing caregiver, or the villain itself. Many of the most popular epic fantasy novels seldom break away from that convention. Philip Pullman created His Dark Materials and inevitably put a new spin to females in epic fantasy. Not only did Pullman write one of the two main protagonists female, he created a noteworthy female villain as well. Pullman’s His Dark Materials not only challenges female norms in epic fantasy by creating Mrs. Coulter as a multi-faceted powerful woman and Lyra as a more modern embodiment of Eve, the trilogy manages to reimagine the role of women since the biblical period.
To understand feminism in the novel, one must first understand the feminist lens itself. OWL Purdue describes the lens as “the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women” (Purdue). Feminism acts as both a commitment and a political movement that wants to end sexism in all forms. Most feminists generally disagree on many topics of the subject, however all have one common goal. These aspects affect The Things They Carry in a plethora of ways, mostly due to the fact that gender roles is a main theme. There are negative and positive aspects of the feminist lens. Positive contains the empowering of women and equality, whereas negative pertains to oppression and unequal rights. Both are covered in The Things They Carried from sex symbols to battle tor...
...present powerful characters, while females represent unimportant characters. Unaware of the influence of society’s perception of the importance of sexes, literature and culture go unchanged. Although fairytales such as Sleeping Beauty produce charming entertainment for children, their remains a didactic message that lays hidden beneath the surface; teaching future generations to be submissive to the inequalities of their gender. Feminist critic the works of former literature, highlighting sexual discriminations, and broadcasting their own versions of former works, that paints a composite image of women’s oppression (Feminist Theory and Criticism). Women of the twenty-first century serge forward investigating, and highlighting the inequalities of their race in effort to organize a better social life for women of the future (Feminist Theory and Criticism).
Since the beginning of time, women have been seen as different from men. Their beauty and charms have been interpreted as both endearing and deadly to men. In the Bible, it was Eve’s mistake that led to humanity’s exile from the Garden of Eden. However, unlike in the Bible, in today’s world, women who drive men to ruin do not do so through simple mistakes and misunderstandings, they do so while fully aware of what effects their sexuality can cause. One thing remains constant through these portrayals of women, and that is that they are portrayed as flawed creations and therefore monstrous. It is a woman’s sex drive and sexuality that can lead to her monstrosity. The femme fatale is an enticing, exquisitely beautiful, erotic character who plays the ultimate trick of nature: she displays her beauty, captures the man and goes in for the kill. Films such as Adrian Lyne’s Fatal Attraction and stories such as Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s Tale, and Sir Gawain the Green Knight use the femme fatale as a means of making a woman into a monster; the femme fatale can never win in the battle of the sexes. But what is it that makes the femme fatale such a dangerously character for the hero as well as the readers or viewers?
Smith begins her essay by looking at the historical factors that may have contributed to this seemingly sexist book. Shelley, writing in the first half of the 19th Century, was in a period in which a woman "was conditioned to think she needed a man's help" (Smith 275). In the novel itself, no women speak directly. The book has three basic narrators: Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and Frankenstein's monster. The female characters are very weak in this novel, especially Elizabeth, Victor's cousin/fiancé (no they aren't from Arkansas). She is portrayed as the perfect woman, especially after Victor's mother, Caroline dies. She takes the place of the mother figure in the household. But just like all the female characters in the story, her character has little substance. Victor's character is described in detail, as is that of the monster, and Henry Clerval. When Henry gets killed, sympathy is really felt toward Victor, because he has just lost his lifetime friend. When Elizabeth is murdered, the reader finds it hard to connect with what Frankenstein is feeling. Elizabeth (and the other main female characters: Justine and Caroline) are there to reflect the men characters. Professor Smith states in her essay that "women function not in their own right but rather as signals of and conduits for men's relations with other men" (283). This is especially clear when the monster kills Elizabeth on their wedding night. The monster is upset with Victor, so instead of hurting him, he kills his wife. Elizabeth is used as a sort of ruler to measure the relationship between Victor and his monster.
b. Thesis Statement: Stephen King uses many different elements in order to scare his readers. The elements include supernatural elements, real life scenarios, and fear of the unknown.
It must also be noted there are no women in the story with prominent roles. The hero's wife is long dead and his daughter has been married and gone for many years. Any women in the story are merely in the background, unnamed and colorless-totally insignificant. Mann has purposely left them out because they are life givers, the symbol of fertility and birth. (The only one scene where women have an active role is in the degrading and violently promiscuous dream.)
In chapter two, the narrator goes to the British Museum in search of answers. During research, she uncovers that women are common topics of literature. However, none of the literature written about them is penned by women. When she reveals her findings for the definition of woman, she uses words such as weak, inferior, vane, and etc. that define woman. I think the narrator uses these words to emphasize the way men perceive women as being the weaker sex.
Later on in the story, the narrator begins to act different from the social norms. It may have been portrayed as her going mental. “I wonder how it was done and who did it, and what they did it for. Round and round and round – round and round and round – it makes me dizzy!” (Gilman 325). The narrator also notices how other women were affected by the pressure and social stigma from society. “Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over” (Gilman 325). Many other women in that era are being suppressed, not just the