'Complicated Attitudes Towards Female Characters Essay\r'

'I agree with this statement, as the fe anthropoid characters are revea guide to the endorser as being powerful over men, enticing, suspicious, mysterious, trance and in the end, cause destruction. However, in the poems, males assume some possessiveness over the females. For example; in the poem ‘La Belle shuttle Sans Merci’ a bewitching woman tempts men/ gymnastic horses with her ‘ faggot’ beauty. The knight in the poem, falls in love with her through her beguiling actions, save then she abandons him. ‘ I met a madam in the meads, Full beautiful †a faery’s small fry’\r\nThis repeat shows how mysterious the female is by describing her as a ‘faery’s child’ which basically means a unfathomed fairy in human form, who is coltish and has magical powers. In ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ the reader only gets one exposition of the female through the knights direct speech, this reflects a entangle d attitude to the reader as we have a biased smell of the female. Also, not having direct speech from ‘La Belle’ adds to the mysterious-ness of female characters in Keats’ poetry. A male contrast in this poem is sort of important, as in many of Keats’ poetry.\r\nThe knight claims possession over the female. He creates garlands and bracelets for which could be used to enclose and trap her. ‘I made a garland for her head, And bracelets too, and sweet-scented zone’ ‘I set her on my pacing steed’ These quote shows his possessiveness over the beautiful woman. In the same way, ‘The evening Of St Agnes’ stages these attitudes towards females. The fibber focuses on a virgin named Madeline, describing her as pure, nieve, vague and blinded by superstition. This gives the reader the impression of her being easily led and expressing her as being quite innocent.\r\nIn the poem Madeline is at a party and is oblivious to ever ything going on round her, she is only thinking of the legend St Agnes. St Agnes evening is believed by virgins that on this night they lead see their future husbands in the fancys. The poet describing Madeline as one of these believers, shows the theme of suspicion and witchcraft, as Madeline will perform the rites associated with St Agnes. Keats’ uses negative expertness to contrast innocence with flirtatious, this happens when Madeline goes up to her bedchamber to undress for bed. ‘Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees; Unclasps her warm jewels one by one;\r\nLoosens her aromatic boddice; by degrees Her rich attire creep rustling to her knees:’ Describing the way she undresses makes her seem ilk shes doing a strip annoyer. A male in the poem named Porphyro, affects the readers attitude towards Madeline, as he comes across as being the seductive one. As Madeline undresses he watches as he’s hiding in her closet. This could portray to the reader about the attitudes towards women, that Madeline purposely stipped similar that, because she was thinking about and wishing to tease Porphyro. But as a coincidence, he was there watching every move, present the power rightness of women over men. Also, the quote: Sudden a thought came like a full blown rose flushing his brow, and in his ail heart’ Keats’s could be referring to how trade Porphyro might be, as he was told by the old belle dame that it’s St Agnes Eve and Madeline had gone up to her bedchamber to dream of her future lover, giving him a seductive idea. To conclude, Keats uses many different methods, to have an doctor on the reader about complicated attitudes towards females in his poetry. Using sympathy as a weapon for the males in his poetry. However, much indepth reading shows that there may be contrasts between men and women and that their roles can be switched over.\r\n'