ENG 360W Study Guide - Midterm Guide: A Country Girl, Walter Pater, Life Imitating Art
13 Sep 2017
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Play was never performed in england, but has been performed in france. In england, lord chamberlain"s office approves playwrights to be performed publicly. Laura mulvey: the mall gaze : asymmetrical, objectifying, identification. Dichotomy between the two characters: salome and this disgusting man (jokanaan) who was terrible to look upon . King herod reduces her to an object of sex. Jokanaan views her to be unclean and sinful. Salome is stuck between two men, where she has no agency. People always look at salome, but it"s dangerous to gaze in that manner. Salome knows he likes looking at her and she uses this against him to get what she wants. Jokanaan"s not having any of it and rejects her. It is strange that the husband of my mother looks at me like that . You will do this thing for me, narraboth. How wasted is he his flesh must be cool like ivory.
