Friday, December 11, 2015

Femme fatale

Judges 16:1-14
Samson fell in love in with a woman in Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah. She accepted the bride from rulers of Philistines.
Delilah asked Samson three times about the secret of his great strength and how could be tied up and subdue.
Samson didn't aware that he is under the danger of these woman.
Deliah: Like Samson's other loves, Delilah was probably a Philistine. Fairly or unfairly, just as 'Samson' has come to stand for a 'strong man', so 'Delilah' has given her name to the femme fatale(蛇蠍美人). Both are equally unscrupulous(不擇手段) in the way they use others.
Why?
One is a feminist approach, which does not share in, or condone(縱容), the events described and the ideologies transmitted. For example, the character of Delilah lives on in the cultural imagination as a femme fatale. The story carries the message that the sexually independent, foreign woman is a snare to good men.
As Cherly Exum has pointed out, the paintings of Moreau, Rubens and Solomon have built on this shared prejudice against the temptress(風月) figure by adding to the biblical narrative(敘述) such details as Delilah's fleshy seductiveness(誘惑), her prostitute status, her feelings of triumph when Samson is captured. So the negative message of the story itself is continued and strengthened. The feminist view resists the tendency to 'agree with' the text and opens other questions, other possibilities for the reader.
How?
Be aware of the evil mind, keep my heart clean and close to the Lord!

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