... comparing the films The Blot by Lois Weber and The Wild Party By Dorothy Arzner both films challenge the established discourses that privilege the male and help develop the patriarchal feminine discourse. Through the close study of these two films I found similar narrative lines such as transport, employment and female relationship. It was through the critical analysis of these elements that I find the argument of my essay; That the female ... not wreck your reputation, or myn" automatically Stella is turned into a sexual object, one that could ruin everything, by creating chaos in a pub...

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... brings him to choose Stella as his mate. The quote "In refusing Salzman's well intentioned and rational matches, Finkle-Adam rejects the insufficient first version of Creation, the lonely abyss of self. . . Love without desire meant failing to come to God."(Bluestone 408) perfectly closes Bluestones interpretation of the story. Bluestone's analysis of the story seemed very over interpreted. His concept ... of how Malamud's story was a missing part of the story of Adam and Eve seemed very unreasonable. Bluestone's evidence of the parallels between the two stories made some sense, but it m...

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