Les Diaboliques: Justice Manifested Via the Uncanny
The theme of justice is indeed ambiguous in the short stores Les Diaboliques by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly. The stories are indeed graphically vivid, which take an unflinching perspective on life, love, sex, honor, lust, beauty and power—mostly from a masculine point of view. It is this masculine perspective which can shackle and disarm the female characters of these stories. But in each story, justice prevails on the fictional reality by allowing the females to consistently have an uncanny sense of beauty or cunning—a beauty that prevails by giving each female a bewitching or animalistic quality which endures and ends up haunting the male protagonists or disarming other female characters of the narratives. In this sense justice has fallen: while the female protagonists often don't have the same amount of freedom or power that the male characters do, they have a strong hold on the uncanny and the bewitching and their beauty continues to haunt and bewitch time after time, regardless of whether they're physically there or not
Annotated bibliography on gender, marriage, and sexuality
This paper is an annotated bibliography of artilces on the following themes marriage, gender, sexuality and class. The author takes a position contrary to the applauded practices of medieval England including the landed wealth, social prestige derived upon a monopoly of advantages, and marriages with desirable brides for heirs. It also resulted into ignoring the younger males. The article further establishes its position against the acceptable norms of the discussed age. The disagreement on the issues of priority in wealth distribution and the role of heiresses' marriages is based on the research of marriage contracts and marriages of heiress with governmental lords.