ENGLISH FINAL ASSIGNMENT Essays - Gender Studies,

ENGLISH FINAL ASSIGNMENT NAME: Jigmey Topgyal Professor: Jennifer Judge Course Code: EAC 150 Due date: April 11th, 2017 Distinctive Setting In "The Exotic Pleasure" In general, people are dependent on money for survival and money entices people to all kind of sins. The story "The Exotic Pleasure" is about a destitute couple who adopts a bird and exploits it to earn their living. However, as the saying "what goes around comes around", the couple eventually gets paid for what they have done wrong to the bird by using it as an object and corrupting people for money. As an Australian writer, the author, Peter Carey connects his story "The Exotic Pleasure" with the real-life events that he experienced in his life. Over the years, after the post colonization by the British in Australia, he often saw changes in infrastructure, capital and people's behavior in society. To show the changes he saw, he wrote this story with destructed setting linked with the theme of capitalism, greed and colonization. In the story "Exotic pleasure" by Peter Carey, the key themes of Capitalism, greed and colonization are revealed through the setting of a wasteland and c orrupted society where the capitalism has taken over human decency. A new-society where male and female roles have switched as women become dominant than men in work field. In this apocalyptic world, we see the conquest of bird species over human by taking advantage of the weaknesses noticed in human's character. Capitalism can control human's behavior and makes them corrupt and greedy as wasteland. People are born naive as they grow and reach a threshold in their life when they become desperate and realize the importance of money, they become corrupted. In the story, "The Exotic Pleasure", Lily is desperate for money as her husband does not get job wherever he goes but as soon as she gets her hand to the exotic colorful bird, she starts to think of doing business by exploiting the bird. She said, "we need it for tomorrow. It's our business. That's what I mean about it no being a pet." (Peter 118). Lily s mind has corrupted with money as her mind has become wasteland where she cannot think of anything else except for making money. In the story, she buys the bird for 5 dollars as not to make it a source of her income but to keep it as a pet. However, she starts doing business using the bird by charging "a dollar a minute for people to stroke it." (Peter 118) and makes more than she bought that bird for. The author tries to point out that the colonization has led transformation in people's character as making them corrupt as wasteland where no natural site can be seen which people are born with. In modern world money has become everything for people and at this point "Corruption prevails where there is ample opportunity for corruption at little cost." ( Andersson 2009). People mind can be easily corrupted by capitalism as money become dominant that it begins to rule the entire soul and senses of people and it is compared to the scene of wasteland. In the new society, old societal norms are no longer followed as gender roles of Lily and Mort is switched in the story. Capitalism has a great effect to human lives, changing the roles of gender such as men becomes jobless and women goes to work. In the beginning of the story, Mort is in search of job and Lily is a pregnant woman. However, when Lily starts her business with the exotic bird, Mort "did less and less now it was Lily who not only attracted the crowds but also took the money." (Peter 126). The author points out that how capitalism has generated greed inside people which often can be seen through the roles of women "changing more quickly over time than those of men. Women were also perceived as taking o masculine-agency characteristics, in contrast men, who were perceived as taking on feminine -feminine-communal characteristics." (Esther 2012). Lily's greed generated by capitalism can be seen in the story as a pregnant woman doing business. Lily's greed has taken control over her mind and