When Rosalind decides to cross dress as the shepherd Ganymede in Act I, scene 3 of As You Like It, she highlights the conceptions of gender as a central theme of the play. ... This can be seen in As You Like It act II, scene 4, when Rosalind breaks down and cries [unlike a man]. ... Like many of Shakespeare's plays and poems, As You Like It explores a variety of different kinds of love between members of the same sex. ... In drawing on the motif of homoeroticism, As You Like It is influenced by the pastoral tradition, which typically contains elements of same-sex love. In the Forest of...

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To what extent do you think the boundaries between homosocial and homerotic desire are undermined by Renaissance drama? ... It seems then that lacking a fit description to apply to one with homoerotic desires that there will be a further muddying of the waters when one tries to identify behaviour other than the sexual act as homoerotic. ... It is certainly language that suggests homoeroticism even if it's intentions are purely of a neo-Platonic kind. ... Antonio says 'if you will not murther [or 'murder'] me for my love, let me be your servant' (p.43) and Sebastia...

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Using the play As You Like It and the characters portrayed within it one might be able to see how our concept of gender may well be challenged. ... By carefully going through the text of As You Like It (Greenblatt, ed., PP1591-1657) one can try to "dig in" to the characters portrayed and discover any challenge to our views of gender identity. ... I would suggest that Shakespeare explores homoerotic possibilities in several characters. ... Shakespeare has, I would suggest, deliberately woven in homoerotic potential throughout this play. ... It would appear that homoerotic themes in As You Lik...

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Ishmael's sexuality is expressed in the social and homoerotic bonds between men. ... On the surface it appears to be homoerotic relationship. ... Ishmael even further states: How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. ... Withers that reveals a dimension of homoerotic intimacy between each other (2). ... One can wonder why Melville would write such a novel with intense homoerotic imagery. ...

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When Enkidu was thrown he said to Gilgamesh, 'There is not another like you in the world. Ninsun, who is as strong as a wild ox in the byre, she was the mother who bore you, and now you are raised above all men, and Enlil has given you the kingship, for your strength surpasses the strength of men.' ... "You loved him and embraced him as a wife; and it is he who will repeatedly save you. ... Through their trails they became more dependent on each other in such a way it seems homoerotic. ... " The personification of Gilgamesh going from a god like figure to a civilized human ...

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When Enkidu was thrown he said to Gilgamesh, 'There is not another like you in the world. Ninsun, who is as strong as a wild ox in the byre, she was the mother who bore you, and now you are raised above all men, and Enlil has given you the kingship, for your strength surpasses the strength of men.' ... "You loved him and embraced him as a wife; and it is he who will repeatedly save you. ... Through their trails they became more dependent on each other in such a way it seems homoerotic. ... " The personification of Gilgamesh going from a god like figure to a civilized human ...

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At first you wonder what Fight Club really is in the film. ... At last I want to discuss is what homoeroticism meant in the movie Fight Club. Homoeroticism was how men could see a relationship without sex. ... It wouldn't surprise me but it seemed to vague to be something like that. ... It was a exceptionally great movie because you can watch it more than once and each time you grasp something new from the movie, some sort of new meaning or point their trying to get across. ...

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This can be illustrated when Dorian tells Henry about his fascination of Sibyl Vane : "It would never have happened if I had not met you. You filled me with a wild desire to know everything about life" (Wilde, p. 45). ... "Basil's homoerotic love for Dorian is revealed in his work, and his hidden soul "speaks" (Gifford, 2011)". ... "Wilde associates aestheticism with homoeroticism. He partially identifies with his own protagonist, and he is himself riven by the conflict between homoerotic aestheticism and Christian pathos ( Caroll, p.3)". ...

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It's as almost if you feel remorse for Lucy having to endure this punishment, since the men clearly don't have any remorse. ... They have full control of Lucy's limp body, making it feel like they are taking advantage of what seems to be just an innocent girl. ... It shows that Dracula has no limits, displaying even homoerotic tendencies in his conquest for blood. Dracula continues on these homoerotic tendencies when coming into contact with his sisters while they attempt to take control of Jonathan. ...

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Their open fondness for each other is quasi-homoerotic, and also something you do not see in Western action films. ... Like Hong Kong action films, American action films are also aimed at the teenage male demographic....

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Both feature circumstantial heroes who make Oz-like journeys and come of age in the process. ... But, of course you can't blame George Lucas for making a film in the 1980's, and if the majority of the film is set in space What could he do to change the scenery? ... And it's supposed to be an epic adventure too I had the courage and free time (and folly) to read the whole book and can advise you to skip the first 500 pages of the book if ever you are mad enough to try reading that out. ... Not-So-Subtle Homoeroticism Play a drinking game involving gulping down a beer (or a Po...

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Why does Wilde write of marriage like this? ... In his day, it wasn't right to marry someone a class under you. ... Just like Jack, Lady Bracknell would not allow her daughter to marry someone with a background like his (Wilde, 14). ... Characters like Dorian who lived a flagrant life filled with murder, lies and homoerotic behavior. Other characters like Earnest or Jack show Wilde's double life. ...

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King Edward's private and public life is constantly under scrutiny in the eyes of the rebellious barons, who refuse to acknowledge his homoerotic involvement with Gaveston. ... " This is not the only instance, where Edward's casual approach to his kingdom is evident, but also when he says to his nobles, "Make several kingdoms of this monarchy, and share it equally amongst you all.... Here, the irresponsible, immature and weak king undergoes a complete transformation, as he emerges before the audience as a tragic hero in his un...

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By conquering the female warrior and marrying her, he fulfills his need for the exclusive love of a woman while satisfying his homoerotic desires. Close bonding fulfills this homoerotic desire with a male companion, such as Demetrius and Egeus. ... Also, when the men fall in love with her, she feels like the "butt of a joke." ... The fairies bring the stories to you from the East. ... The lover's fall in and out of love like dolls, and like dolls they will go to sleep as soon as they are laid down. ...

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By conquering the female warrior and marrying her, he fulfills his need for the exclusive love of a woman while satisfying his homoerotic desires. Close bonding fulfills this homoerotic desire with a male companion, such as Demetrius and Egeus. ... Also, when the men fall in love with her, she feels like the "butt of a joke." ... The fairies bring the stories to you from the East. ... The lover's fall in and out of love like dolls, and like dolls...

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It may be interpreted in several ways, yet choice decisions by the director can accentuate the homoeroticism found, making it into a more powerful scene. ... Iago squeezes his legs like that of a snake over O's ribcage while screaming the lines in his face. ... When you love someone, you experience the awful sinking of heart and the uncontrollable premonition of disaster. ... Why then In God's name did you crush me with the story? ... Cont"d: Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief Spotted with strawberries in your wife's hand? ...

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The house is so nondescript that Barrie advises, "you may dump it down anywhere you like, and if you think it was your house you are very probably right- (87). While this is a particular house, belonging to the Darling family, Barrie assumes that members of his audience recognize and identify with it because they, like the Darlings, are middle class: if they don't live in a house like the Darlings', they know of people who do. ... Says John to his mother, "We are doing an act; we are playing at being you and father- (89), as if gender roles are performed. ... Says Mr Darling to hi...

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He acts like a child in order to stay away from adulthood. ... Holden is 16 years old, but sometimes acts like a 12 year old. ... The thing is, though, I don't like the idea. It stinks, if you analyze it. ... He thinks that all homoerotic behavior is "pervert," and links this to Mr. ...

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It has a dual effect: like amphetamines it releases large quantities of dopamine into the brain. ... For those who liked the up-lifting feelings, trance music emphasised the top notes and string washes. For those who liked to dance furiously there was the other end of the spectrum, gabba, which raced along at a speed it seemed only a few young men could keep up with. A popular tabloid criticism of some dance music was that one could only like it if one were on drugs'. ... Men too could dance alone or with other men unafraid or careless of potential homoeroticism. ...

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One can find their truth if you look at the situation with a more universal and up to date set of scales. ... These are two essential factors of human life and are suggested to be bad but only if you are with someone of the same sex. ... The patients were pushed to a psychological corner making them physiologically distressed about their own homoerotic behavior to a point that their ability for sex and intimacy become disabled. ... Some homosexuals are realizing their fate at a younger age and are receiving especially cruel treatment because their peers are yet immature and are unprepared...

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However, this law, like so many others, is open to interpretation and further scrutiny. ... The show included homoerotic images and images of nude and seminude children. ... When you give blueprints to an architect, you expect him to build what is on the blueprint, not something of his own desire. You also want him to build something of quality that you can enjoy. ...

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However, this law, like so many others, is open to interpretation and further scrutiny. ... The show included homoerotic images and images of nude and seminude children. ... When you give blueprints to an architect, you expect him to build what is on the blueprint, not something of his own desire. You also want him to build something of quality that you can enjoy. ...

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I, like an usurpt towne, to' another due, Labour to' admit you, but Oh, to no end, Reason your viceroy in mee, mee should defend, But is captiv'd, and proves weake or untrue, Yet dearely' I love you, and would be lov'd faine, But am bethroth'd unto your enemie, Divorce mee, 'untie, or breake that knot againe, Take mee to you, imprison mee, for I Except you' enthrall mee, never shall be free, Nor ever chast, except you ravish mee... As the first quatrain continues, the speaker's language could be sexual or violent as he implores God to "&#x...

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