ENg Lit

ENG ASSIGNMENT – ESSAY, 10 page professionally written, college content that is competent and relevant from pg. 1-8 of the entire assignment. Must be consistently on topic and follow the instructions to the letter in structure and content.

PART ONE

Answer the question below;

  Question:

 

Referencing “Look Back in Anger “by Osborne and “A Taste of Honey “by Delaney, in an essay, DISCUSS modernism in modern drama.

Compose a multi-paragraph essay that has an average length of ten typed, double-spaced pages; 

Provide a clear and precise statement thesis that addresses the topic;

Topic: Modernism in Modern Drama

· provide a lucid essay map in your introduction and ascertain that it is loyally followed in your discussion;

· Use and include definitive facts/quotes from the work(s) selected to support your argument or say each idea in your essay;

· consistently and carefully utilize standard English in the essay;

· employ essay structure and essay map in composing your essay;

· use the latest MLA style sheet throughout and wherever necessary in your essay;

· Demonstrate familiarity with the context of the works selected; and

· Provide  adequate details/quotes  and explanation of ideas to support your discussion. The conclusion should be a relative summation of the information chosen to analyze?

· Please do not analyze the play’s as the focus? The focus should be a scholarly discussion of the topic of modernism in modern drama in literature?

PART TWO – COMMENT in very brief remarks (1-3) paragraphs each on two responses?

PLEASURE

1. The sexual content within the play The Homecoming interprets ambiguous perceptions of the dependency of sex. Sex is personified in the character of Ruth, displays its authority in choice, influence, and dominance. Ruth's free will exuded the authority of choice as she was never forced to do anything she did not want to do. When arriving to the family's house, Teddy instructed Ruth to "Go to bed" and she stated "No, I dont want to" and instead she went on a walk (23). Her refusal symbolically represented the authority of choice in sex. The consensual action of either accepting it or not. Sexual power was represented through Ruth's influence. After kissing Lenny, Ruth was enticingly influenced Joey to "kiss" her as well (59). Similarly, the enticing influence of sex is often portrayed through advertising. The phrase "sex sells" has been a tool to desensitize society into devaluing sex from being a pure act love between a married man and woman, to simply a means of getting what you want. Axe body spray sales increased rapidly as marketing campaigns depicted men being sexually desired by women once using the product. Ruth's sexual power symbolically represented the influence sex has on society. Ruth established dominance through her sexual power by positioning herself in a seat of authority. When Ruth sat "relaxed in her chair" it symbolically represented ownership of authority, as Pincher emphasized the chair being hers and not conveyed as a general chair (80). Once Ruth established her authority Joey submissive knelt "at her chair" and put "his head on top of her lap" (80). Without any instructions, Max,  who possessed the greatest authority in the house throughout the play, "falls to his knees" on the other side of her (82). Ruth having both Max and Joey kneeling at her, metaphorically represented the dominating position of sex in the lives of humanity, which acts as a need for survival.

SEXUAL MANIPULATION of Artistic Proportions

2. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines power as “possession of control, authority, or influence over others.” In the Homecoming, the elements of sexuality and intelligence were important tools to claim power over others. In following this definition, it becomes clear that in The Homecoming, Harold Pinter equates the use of violence and intelligence as exercised in the household by the male characters were the most effective in claiming power over others. The most compelling evidence was obvious in Act II as to how the power game for dominance is played out. It is obvious that this entire family of men assumes that women are for one purpose only, to be used. However, when Pinter’s one and only female character, Ruth, enters the household, she appears to defeat the men’s power, not with violence, but with her sexuality and apparent intelligence. Although this appears on the surface to be true, Sexuality and Intelligence grouped together is loosely flawed because the degree of power this holds is determined by how the game of manipulation is being played. As it turns out, nobody wins.

Therefore, it is in my humble opinion as a feminist, that if a woman uses her sexuality to attain power over men, it is not a practice of intelligence, but manipulation.