The author of the short story Rape Fantasies is Margaret Atwood-She is a renowned Canadian writer of poetry and fiction, she is best known for her novel The Handmaids Tail. The short story that I chose Rape Fantasies comes from Atwood's first collection of short stories called Dancing girls and Other Stories.
"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent".
Eleanor Roosevelt.
The story Rape Fantasies is about a bunch of females who are sitting around the lunch room during their lunch hour talking about fantasies that they consider to be called "Rape Fantasies". The story came about because society has made rape a big issue and is being viewed everywhere, like the movies, radio, T.V., and magazines. in this story the narrator that is called Estelle in the story claims that the ideas that the other women in at their table are considering rape fantasies isn't rape at all, but a fantasy that they have about having sex with a complete stranger. She continues to prove them wrong and decides to tell them her stories, rape fantasies that she has had.
The basis of the story is rape. Rape, as defined in the Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology, is an act of power and dominance; although 15% to40% of American women are victims of rape or attempted rape, there is also the chance that a man is assaulted also. It is said that women are more than likely going to get raped by someone they know. More than half of the nation's rape assaults have been placed in the victim's home. Many rape assaults are continued or completed because the victim didn't use verbal or physical force as resistance. For more than 3 decades and now till this day, feminist organizations have been fighting successfully to change the publics" attitude toward rape as well as how society treats rape victims.
The themes of this story are the quotes that are displayed through the paper and the definition of rape, why it's taking lightly and how is the issue getting solved.
The Story, "Rape Fantasies", by Margaret Atwood takes place somewhere in Toronto. ... Estelle believes that her office mates" rape fantasies are unrealistic. ... Greta and Chrissy's fantasies on rape are non-violent. ... It is obvious that both their rape fantasies are unrealistic. ... The difference between their rape fantasies cannot be unrecognized. ...
Atwood clearly blurs the line between actual rape, and the fantasy of rape in this story. In this essay I plan to focus on how patriarchal attitudes and beliefs are engendered in "Rape Fantasies" and to what extent the fantasy of rape itself functions in the story to challenge or perpetuate patriarchal definitions of femininity and masculinity. ... "Rape Fantasies" is the story of a conversation among several women during their lunch hour. ... In this essay the women say they are having rape fantasies when in fact they are just having fantasies about a sexual encounter that they are fully w...
Greta's rape fantasies incredibly understate the impact of rape by downplaying the chances of rape happening. ... Estelle commented about their fantasies by stating, "Those aren't rape fantasies. ... Dramatic irony is the most predominate type of irony in Rape Fantasies. ... Once again, Greta and Chrissy's rape fantasies are examples of dramatic irony. ... All of Estelle's rape fantasies start out as serious situations, but quickly turn absurd. ...
"Rape Fantasies" vs. ... "Rape Fantasies" is an essay where a woman named Estelle is the narrator and she speaks to the reader about her life and her own rape fantasies. The fantasies are not so much rape fantasies, but fantasies of meeting different people in the wrong way. ... In the first essay "Rape Fantasies", Margaret Atwood, the author, discussed woman and how they make up fantasies to fulfill their own dreams. ... "Rape Fantasies" was an outstanding essay to read, being a woman. ...
Adler states "Ultimately, To Catch a Predator's restaging of the the sexuality it condemns works to preserve, disseminate, and in my view, even normalize the predator's sexual fantasies.... The fact that the miscommunication hypothesis is still held in somewhat high regard, though it has yet to really be proven, is indicative of society's attitude that date rape, or rape by an acquaintance, is somehow less serious than rape by a stranger. ... This may explain why date rape is not considered as serious an offense as the incidence of rape by a stranger. ... A very importan...
Date rape accounts for approximately 80% of all rapes on college campuses; in every college classroom with 50 female students, 6 to 7 women have been victims of date rape within the past year (Guernsey 6). ... Some rape specialists conclude rape as having little or nothing to do with sex or sexual pleasure. ... Images of sex and rape in society convey an invalid portrayal of the reality of date rape. ... Date rape in movies commonly depicts rape as an action, which fulfils a woman's desire to be overpowered sexually. Many men therefore justify their actions by saying they are fulfill...
Blanche DuBois's collapse in A Streetcar Named Desire takes place because she cannot cope with the clashing of her fantasies vs. ... In her final attempt to hold onto her fantasy world against Stanley, she sees his rape attempt as at first playful, instead of his raw, animalistic want for sex. ... Tennessee Williams has a flair for writing about reality clashing with fantasy in some of his plays. ... In A Streetcar Named Desire, there is a combination of raw reality and deliberate fantasy between Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois (Riddel 24). ... Fantasy colliding with reality create...
This dream world explicitly ties up in the fantasy life of heterosexual males. ... If it didn't, there most likely wouldn't be as many rapes, women wouldn't be or feel so devalued, and most likely wouldn't worry so much about how they look in the presence of men. ... Department of Health and Human Services; 1 in 7 American women has been raped in her lifetime, nearly one-third of American women (31%) report being physically abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives, and one woman is raped every two minutes in the United States. ... The media should inste...
This can also trigger fantasies about the power and control gained through rape. ... These depictions can erupt fantasies in a man's mind that will undermine ones internal inhibitions against carrying them out. ... The next question is: Do these fantasies get carried them out? ... That's when I started having rape fantasies. ... The fantasies created by porn combined with the undermining affected it has on ones internal and social inhibitions make it clear that porn can change the thought of male and encourage them to rape. ...
