early on in the play through Rosaline’s character. Rosaline, Romeo’s original downfall, is explained in terms of beauty and sexuality. The omission of descriptors that paint Rosaline as a person are important to notice as it showcases women as objects instead of people with feelings, emotions, and desires. Along with the omission of personal descriptors of Rosaline, many other characters showcase the oppressive nature of men upon women. Juliet’s mother, vaguely named “Lady Capulet,” serves as a teacher
the lawyer, provides descriptors of himself that he believes to be true. Of which includes unambitious,
testimony taken before me in my High Court of Chancery.” (Page 629, The Norton Introduction to Literature). This is only an example of the amount of work repeatedly referred to with Bartleby. He worked non-stop, and his entire routine went directly to work to such a degree that he required little energy to be put into his work. “I observed that he never went to dinner; indeed that he never went anywhere. As yet I had never of my personal knowledge known him to be outside of my office. He was a perpetual
This usage was most prevalent until the 1980’s and 1990’s. It was in this era that the LGBT community began to reclaim the slur. One prominent example is the activist organization Queer Nation, founded in 1990, in New York. Regarding their name, Queer Nation had this to say in a leaflet distributed at a New York pride march: “We use queer as gay men loving lesbians and lesbians loving being queer