Posts Tagged: Sula

Sula’s Sex Powers I thought that the pedagogization of sex that was present throughout the novel was an interesting contrast to the Stevenson essay in which women equated sex with principle.  As a previous poster stated, Sula learned her sexual behaviors from her mother, Hannah.  Hannah was described as sleeping with men easily and often. […]

The way Sula’s community reacts to both her life and death is an interesting realization of Foucault’s idea that where there is power there is resistance.  Sula lives her life with a sense of power.  She sleeps with whomever she wants, refuses to marry, allows her mother to be placed in a home, and lives […]