The Culture of Rape

Abstract

Charlotte Temple by Susatma Rowson is classified as a seduction novel. It fa ll s under this category due to the fact that the protagonist, Charlotte Temple, is said to have been seduced by a man into leaving her family and going with him to the United States. However, the pivotal scene in which Charlotte " leaves" with Montraville, is vague in wording and can be open to the interpretation that instead of being seduced, as the genre implies, Charlotte was kidnapped and raped by Montraville with the help of La Rue. The word seduction, in today' s terms, implies some choice and fault on the victim. If one can prove that Charlotte was indeed raped, then claiming Charlotte was seduced downplays Charlotte as a victim. This also shows America's history of victim blaming, therefore (usually) blaming the woman instead of the true culprit, the person who commits the crime against the victim.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 09, 2013
Accession Number
AD1015101

Entities

People

  • Tobiah Kroskob

Organizations

  • United States Air Force Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Crime
  • Law
  • New York
  • Patents
  • Personality
  • Sexual Assault
  • Societies
  • Standards
  • Theses
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Victims
  • Violence

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • International Relations, focusing on Korea-Africa and North Korea-South Korea relations, and Nigeria-Latin American Relations.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.