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	_MISS CAYLEY'S ADVENTURES_ (1899), ch. 9 by Grant Allen published by Grant Richards IX THE ADVENTURES OF THE MAGNIFICENT MAHARAJAH		_MISS CAYLEY'S ADVENTURES_ (1899), ch. 9 by Grant Allen published by Grant Richards IX THE ADVENTURES OF THE MAGNIFICENT MAHARAJAH

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-_MISS CAYLEY'S ADVENTURES_ (1899), ch. 9 by Grant Allen published by Grant Richards IX THE ADVENTURES OF THE MAGNIFICENT MAHARAJAH OUR arrival at Bombay was a triumphal entry. We were received like royalty. Indeed, to tell you the truth, Elsie and I were beginning to get just a leetle bit spoiled. It struck us now that our casual connection with the Ashurst family in its various branches had succeeded in saddling us like the Lady of Burleigh, 'with the burden of an honour unto which we were not born.' We were everywhere treated as persons of importance; and, oh dear, by dint of such treatment we began to feel at last almost as if we had been raised in the purple. I felt that when we got back to England we should turn up our noses at plain bread and butter. Yes, life has been kind to me. Have your researches into English literature ever chanced to lead you into reading Horace Walpole, I wonder? That polite trifler is fond of a word which he coined himself--'Serendipity.' It derives from the name of a certain happy Indian Prince Serendip, whom he unearthed (or invented) in some obscure Oriental story; a prince for whom the fairies or the genii always managed to make everything pleasant. It implies the faculty, which a few of us possess, of finding whatever we want turn up accidentally at the exact right moment. Well, I believe I must have been born with serendipity in my mouth, in place of the proverbial silver spoon, for wherever I go, all things seem to come out exactly right for me. The Jumna, for example, had hardly heaved to in Bombay Harbour when we noticed on the quay a very distinguished-looking Oriental potentate, in a large, white turban with a particularly big diamond stuck ostentatiously in its front. He stalked on board with a
+_MISS CAYLEY'S ADVENTURES_ (1899), ch. 9 by Grant Allen published by Grant Richards IX THE ADVENTURES OF THE MAGNIFICENT MAHARAJAH OUR arrival at Bombay was a triumphal entry. We were received like royalty. Indeed, to tell you the truth, Elsie and I were beginning to get just a leetle bit spoiled. It struck us now that our casual connection with the Ashurst family in its various branches had succeeded in saddling us like the Lady of Burleigh, 'with the burden of an honour unto which we were not born.' We were everywhere treated as persons of importance; and, oh dear, by dint of such treatment we began to feel at last almost as if we had been raised in the purple. I felt that when we got back to England we should turn up our noses at plain bread and butter. Yes, life has been kind to me. Have your researches into English literature ever chanced to lead you into reading Horace Walpole, I wonder? That polite trifler is fond of a word which he coined himself--'Serendipity.' It derives from the name of a certain happy Indian Prince Serendip, whom he unearthed (or invented) in some obscure Oriental story; a prince for whom the fairies or the genii always managed to make everything pleasant. It implies the faculty, which a few of us possess, of finding whatever we want turn up accidentally at the exact right moment. Well, I believe I must have been born with serendipity in my mouth, in place of the proverbial silver spoon, for wherever I go, all things seem to come out exactly right for me. The Jumna, for example, had hardly heaved to in Bombay Harbour when we noticed on the quay a very distinguished-looking Oriental potentate, in a large, white turban with a particularly big diamond stuck ostentatiously in its front. He stalked on board with a political weapon to uncover the ways in which patriarchal society has structured the sexual subject. This essay takes as a starting point the way in which cinema Hollywood style represents sexual differences ad sexual pleasure.
         According to Mulvey, the patriarchal society is a phallocentric society. This means that it recognizes the male gender and the sexuality of men as the dominant norm.  But phallocentrism depends, in Freudian terms, on the image of a castrated woman.  This image gives order to the world, that is to say, the male dominated conception of society, postulates a masculine subject at the core of all social interchanges, including language itself. Since women represent the absence of a penis, she embodies the fear of castration which is so fundamental  for the constitution of the male subject.
          Mulvey is saying that language as a symbolic system presupposes some kind of reference to itself just as say, a computer program includes some reference to its identity and procedures. Yet, in the linguistic sphere, it is the male gender the one with power over the  word, and it is presence and signature is that which sustains our linguistic order. Thus, Mulvey says:

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RahulGupta at 06:53, 25 June 2006

HansaThapliyal at 10:30, 27 May 2006

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KamalSaroop at 12:13, 25 May 2006

KamalSaroop at 04:07, 25 May 2006

KamalSaroop at 11:57, 24 May 2006

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