| inbluevt | Date: Thursday, 2013/05/23, 5:25 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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If you think about it, a woman carried off against her will is one of the most popular stories in human history. Whether she’s forced to marry, sexually violated, or otherwise tormented, the female captive
pops up in Persian tales, Arthurian legends, and the great epics of India. She’s a staple of every art form and cultural product, from the paintings of great masters to true crime stories, from sonnets to soap
operas. She’s woven into explanations of imperial origins: the Romans
became the Romans because they snatched women from a neighboring tribe
in a celebrated event known as the Rape of the Sabines. Biblical stories of captured women are so commonplace that the Lord issues helpful instructions on how to do the thing correctly, which
include shaving the captive’s head, and if she fails to please you,
properly disposing of her after she has been “dishonored.” ( Deuteronomy 21:10-14).
Myths overflow with women abducted and raped (the two terms have an ancient linkage): Persephone is carried off by Hades, Europa by Zeus,
and Helen by Paris, which sets off the Trojan War. The romance would not
be the romance, nor the novel the novel, without the long tradition of
captive women in everything from the legendary medieval romance Apollonius of Tyre, to the grotesqueries of the Marquis de Sade, right on down to Stieg Larsson’s pop culture sensation, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (original title: Men Who Hate Women).
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