Innocence

Over the past five weeks we have gone over many different clusters, but one simularity stands out in all of them. It seems like in every story there is an innocent young woman who is about to be corrupted in some way, shape or form. There is, of course Little Red Riding Hood who is educated about the wolf and his lies, in more ways than one! Connie really does lose her innocence in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Miranda is completely innocent to the fact that she shares the world with men, other than her father and the two slaves on the island she is soon to find out that there are many men in the world. Hamlet's Ophelia is an innocent soul and a good girl madly in love with Hamlet until her father's death drives her mad and she kills herself.

All of these women posses the characteristics of innoncence and corruption. These stories were all written in completely different eras. To me that is a sign that even back in the days of Shakespere that the loss of innocence in a woman, wheather it be sexual or intellectual it made for good entertainment. I think that as a society, then and now, want women to be innocent figures and their corruption is something out of the ordinary that is looked at as wrong or sad. I think that all women are portrayed as angels but they all have their evil, naughty or wreckless streak in them somewhere.