{"id":1375,"date":"2018-11-28T10:07:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2018-11-28T10:07:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:07:07","slug":"the-color-red-and-promiscuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2018\/11\/28\/the-color-red-and-promiscuity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Color Red and Promiscuity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christina Rossetti\u2019s \u201cA Triad\u201d depicts the story of three women searching for love. The first woman was seen as too promiscuous for the time period. She was described as having \u201clips crimson\u201d and \u201ccheeks and bosom in a glow.\u201d The physical description of her \u201ccrimson\u201d lips insinuates that she has desires too forward and strong for those seen as acceptable for women in the Victorian time period, causing her to \u201cshame herself in love.\u201d We saw a similar description in Robert Browning\u2019s \u201cMy Last Duchess\u201d, where the wife was described as outwardly flirtatious and having desires. The husband, a powerful man with a strong 900 year old family name, was angered by what he believed was his wife having an affair, although he had no proof. It was in her face that her apparent affair was seen, as it was not \u201cHer husband\u2019s presence only, called that spot Of joy into the Duchess\u2019 cheek.\u201d Similarly to \u201cA Triad\u201d, the description of the rosy, blushed cheeks is used to depict a woman as being too promiscuous and flirtatious for the time. During Victorian time, the color red was representative of sex, passion, and lust, which is why the emphasis on the rosy cheeks made the women seem too outwardly sexual. During Victorian time, women who had sexual desires were seen as undesirable and immoral, and they were condemned for their actions. This was in an effort to discourage other women from doing the same in order to maintain society\u2019s order and rigid traditions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christina Rossetti\u2019s \u201cA Triad\u201d depicts the story of three women searching for love. The first woman was seen as too promiscuous for the time period. She was described as having \u201clips crimson\u201d and \u201ccheeks and bosom in a glow.\u201d The physical description of her \u201ccrimson\u201d lips insinuates that she has desires too forward and strong … Continue reading The Color Red and Promiscuity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3890,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}