(49) For the husband to obtain monetary damages, he had to bring his case in the Royal Courts under the established writs of abduction or
ravishment. (50) Under these writs, the wife was property; "[w]hen a man trespassed on another man's wife, the adulterer was obliged to pay damages for the injury as if he had taken the plaintiffs livestock or gone uninvited onto the plaintiff's land." (51)
The story of Lol's
ravishment revolves around what might be described as a "primal scene": the event of Lol's abandonment by her fiance, Michael Richardson, who leaves her for another woman at a ball at T.
She has ignited the total circumference of plant life that encloses her: "Everything that can blossom is blossoming around her now." Then Annie caps her
ravishment of the grove by setting ablaze the trees that Catullus partially lit up with his metaphor.
In Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky, a marriage of codependency--from which sex has all but varnished, except with other partners--ends nightmarishly with the husband's illness and death and the wife's
ravishment. Lopate proceeds to a similar but less tragic experience in Morocco--where he fell ill like Bowles's character, and his first wife went off to hear native music and was almost raped--causing the author to wonder if he behaved more like a brother than a husband.
In what is to become a familiar scene of ghost stories of the fin de siecle, the final spectacle is that of the dead woman in a state of
ravishment: Alice Oke is first pictured with 'her head slightly thrown back' (152) and holding a large red rose in her hand as if in a moment of passion, before she sinks down from the sofa, 'a pool of red forming in her white dress' with her mouth 'convulsed, as if in that automatic shriek, but her wide-open white eyes seemed to smile vaguely and distantly' (152).
Dubbed The American Beatles, there's punk mania and melody saturated arena rock
ravishment ago-go here, and even as they faded in the late 1980s, a fiery ingenuity is apparent.
"Sur des vers de Virgile" reflects upon the similarities between sexual and textual
ravishment, finding a common cause for the seductiveness of Lucretian erotics and the strength of Lucretian influence.
His theological aesthetics, based on the concepts of "form" and "splendor/glory," combines a theme of foundational theology, namely the discovery of the figure of God who reveals Godself (i.e., the issue of how God's revelation can be perceived and received by human beings), and a dogmatic theme, the doctrine of participation in the divine life (in the form of
ravishment or entrancement in God's beauty).
Lightly he clipt her twixt his armes twaine, And streightly did embrace her body bright, Her body, late the prison of sad paine, Now the sweet lodge of love and deare delight: But she faire Lady overcommen quite In huge affection, did in pleasure melt, And in sweet
ravishment pourd out her spright: No word they spake, nor earthly thing they felt, But like two senceless stocks in long embracement dwelt (III xii 45, 1590 ed.).
Gillray can also claim extra posthumous fame: in a cartoon published in 1797, titled "Political
Ravishment, or the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street in Danger!" the artist also coined the euphemism for the Bank of England which is still used today.
Why does our law permit the
ravishment of an intact landscape for monetary and material profit?
Guido LeBron brought all-stops-out fury to his delight in the prospect of sad-masochistic
ravishment of the vulnerable Tosca.
