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Abstract Wile Sula is the most moving of Morrison's works for me, I have found myself coming back over and over to Song of Solomon: first, for the fierce wisdom of Pilate, which I wrote on in Listening to Our Bodies; then for the wisdom and clarity and originality of Morrison's analysis of masculine archetypes and how they underlie men's individuation; and finally, for lessons about women's life stages, since the novel gives a cross section of women on the boundary line of passages into various new life stages (Smith, 1995). Like her other novels, Morrison's Song of Solomon crosses several generations; the major action of the novel takes place when all the women have grown middle-aged or old. Although this novel develops in depth Morrison's vision of masculine archetypes, the portraits of the women are as strong and compelling as her more centrally feminine previous novels; as Gloria Snodgrass Malone says, "men [are] more prominent in this novel, but women bear the brunt of suffering." The female figures are for me more memorable than the males. And although the novel's protagonist is male, he is finally redeemed by the strength and spirituality of several women in his family and the witch figure Circe, whom he meets on his journey South. Milkman is thirty-one when this happens (Cowart, 1990). The older women in his family are his mother, Ruth, sixty-two, and his aunt, Pilate, sixty-eight; these women comprise the portraits of women in the last stage of life, well past middle age. His sisters, Corinthians and Lena, are forty-two and forty-three respectively, thus moving into middle-age during the last section of the novel, as does Reba, Pilate's daughter, although her age is never actually given. Hagar, Milkman's cousin and lover, dies at thirty-six, apparently unable and unwilling to move towards middle-age. But before examining the women's life stages in depth, we need to set the stage with Morrison's development of masculine archetypes (Novak).

Eating disorders and anorexia are becoming more commonplace today, and this is true particularly of young women, although older people and men sometimes also suffer from them. It is important to look at this issue as it…

So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue…

¶ … history of the problem, psychological causes for the disease, and current research and statistics. Studies and information have not always acknowledged women alcoholics. For many years, most researchers and…

An analysis of Oedipus as a tragic hero according to Aristotle's "tragic hero" definition that was established in his Poetics. Analysis of Oedipus's tragic flaws and how they contributed to his demise.Also a brief overview of Greek tragedy in general and also how Oedipus is the archetypal hero. Includes information as to why Oedipus and his famioly wer cursed.

Rape is widely regarded as a global health threat. This paper provides a review of the relevant literature concerning rape including how human behavioralists view these issues. An examination of cultural factors that affect the perception and impact of rape is followed by a summary of the research and important findings in the conclusion.

Sexual offending has been construed in both the popular and professional domain as an exclusively male activity. While there is little doubt that males commit the vast majority of sexual offenses reported to police and…

¶ … Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly and her works. Mary Shelley's best-known work is Frankenstein, or a Modern Prometheus, a work of fiction that has been remade into myth, film, and legend around the world.

Children need stability, predictability, clear boundaries, and structure and without these elements can feel unsafe, isolated, and not cared for. While there are many types of crimes against children, "the core element…

Sophocles' royal protagonists of Creon and Oedipus both embody the principle that absolute power corrupts absolutely. The position of kingship mimics that of a god, in the eyes of a man, even though the gods themselves…