It's that time of the year again, when assignments begin to pile up, diets become ruined, and Red Bull becomes your best buddy. It's finals! So instead of pushing off my papers to the last moment, a habit that I've grown accustomed to, I decided to get a jump start on some of them. The first is for my Literature of Sensibility course.
For my Literature and Sensibility course, I've decided to write my paper on William Hogarth's famous eighteenth century engravings, A Harlot's Progress. For those of you who have never heard of Hogarth or his works, I suggest you look him up on good ol' Wikipedia. However, in brief, his six engravings tells a tale of a beautiful, young woman who leaves her native village for London in search for honest work. However, upon arriving to her destination, she is manipulated into working as a prostitute, thus, diminishing her virtue as well as her physical beauty. Throughout the engravings, viewers will come to notice how her once pure white face deteriorates as she becomes plagued with venereal diseases. I know, gross!
Anyways, it consists of six paintings with their own literary descriptions. So if you like reading or hearing stories about women selling their bodies to dirty rich white men, and contracting syphilis, then enjoy!!
sigh......goras!
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hey lay off the gora jokes, this stories seem intriguing. Come to think of it it sounds like les miserables a bit, a woman who is working off her debts to a family that is caring after her child, very tragic.
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That Story Sounds Quite Disturbing but in actuality it was prevalent at that time,as far as myself ever reading that then i highly doubt it.So have fun with all that work bro and nice blog site no doubt will check in on it in the future insha allah
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