Oroonoko = Major confusion!

After reading “Oroonoko,” I was left with a lot of questions. Was the story true? How did Behn know all of this? My mind was racing with all the possibilities. Behn comes right out and says in the opening pages of the piece that she has witnessed everything that she is writing about first hand. I found it very hard to believe that Behn was actually around to experience all of the horrible tragedies that Oroonoko went through. Behn jumped from point to point really quickly. She says a point, expands a little on the topic, and then moves on to the next event. That is where most of my questions came from. Why do authors do this? If I was an author I would not want to make my reader confused. After listening to the input and discussions in class about “Oroonoko” I began to understand what was really going on and that I was not the only confused reader in the bunch.

Definitely not a modest proposal!

After reading "A Modest Proposal" I really didn't think there was anything in the world that could be as outrageous as Swift's essay .. well after discussing ridiculous proposals the idea of "breast implant bombs" came up. With my fiance in the army and recently returned home from being over sees this really caught my attention. I read a lot on it and found this website I picked this website over the others I found because other people commented on the initial news presented. Their comments were really funny and made me realize that this proposal is just as insane as Swift's proposal of eating babies! This world is really full of crazies! This ridiculous proposal reminds me of the Austin Powers movie! Who would have ever thought that life actually does imitate art to such extreme measures!! Austin Powers called these women robots "Fembots" .. I wonder what these suicide bombers are going to call themselves ..

Literature for Friday's (feb 26) coffee house

I figured it would be easier to just post my literature about human rights on my blog. I found http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/. This is a website for the intervention to human rights.

"The Country Wife"

When I first started reading “The Country Wife” I honestly was confused. I knew what was going on but couldn’t grasp my mind around the concept that people believed Horner’s “secret” of being a eunuch. The men believed him and trusted him with their wives, and the women agreed to Horner’s idea without hesitation. There’s one thing if you want to be a “ladies man” but it’s another if you have to lie to get what you want. Horner is only excited by this plan because it the hunt. He wants to change men into cuckolds and gets very excited when he sees the competition and anger that arises between the men because of him. The women in this situation do not get jealous when they find out that Horner is sleeping around with other wives, they simply get even. They ban together and go up against him by saying they’re done being with him. His secret plan shows that men and women react very differently. Men get competitive and go against one another while women stick together and support one cause.
Shopping and gambling I believe go hand and hand with sex. All three are addictions that involve risking something. With shopping and gambling, you are risking your money and with sex you could risk your heart. Because Horner is a ladies’ man, he receives a risk factor every time he sleeps with another man’s wife.