When you think about spider cannibalism, the first thing that comes to your mind is the strong male since in the human society males are portrayed as overpowering, while females are viewed as weak and helpless. The word "male" is the loanword from Latin "malediction" that means "evil". It is usually viewed as muscular and strong when applied to a plant, animals, or the human being. "Female" is a Latin word that means "woman". It is the irony that when we split the word "female" we can get "iron man" because "Fe" in Latin stands for iron, and "male" represents a man. Unfortunately the society doesn't see females as strong as males. It doesn't matter who we are talking about, an animal or a human being; women are always viewed as a weaker sex incapable of things that man can do. Spider cannibalism completely changes that idea.
Females spiders kill and eats the male during or after courtship and mating. This shows that female spiders are strong and they ported as the human male when the spider male took place as human female. Male spiders took care of their nests. "Males of many species adjust their activities among mating, nest guarding, and feeding depending upon the size and age of their brood. A male may shift from the mating to the parental phase once an appropriate number of eggs have been deposited in his nest."The female spider use the male to get fertilized after that she doesn't need male and she eats. Some of the females spiders cannibalism stab the male many times and then tighten them in the web to make them suffer. Sometimes to see the one that hurt you suffering make you feel released. but this feeling is come for humans. Female spiders show that they also like to see male suffering and we know that by their behavior towards males. We might not like each other like male and female but we still need ch other in order to continue the circle of life.
Female can look like flower outside all that pretty and easy to hurt but she has the soul of a devil that is hidden inside that flower.They can look small and helpless but it might turn out that they are stronger than males. they show their strong side in the difficult situation. The mother nature create woman(female) strong that would be able to handle anything females do many things at the time ex. work,housework, children and etc.This was an example of the human female but spider had a little difference in their actions from human. If the female spider or human sense danger that come toward their family they will do anything to protected.Spider small but strong, and the way they kill doesn't sound harsh all the time. "First I dive at him. Next I wrap him up. Now I knock him out, so he'll be more comfortable.... flies, bugs, grasshoppers, choice beetles, moths, butterflies, tasty cockroaches, gnats, midgets, daddy long legs, centipedes, mosquitoes, crickets - anything that is careless enough to get caught in my web."(p. 37-39) Something that is viewed as small and helpless can be as strong as the one who is thought to be much bigger. However, when it comes to spiders there is a controversy in the size since the female spider is bigger than male. It all becomes unimportant because the big and heavy elephant is afraid of spider.
Ed. Sven Erik Jørgensen and Brian D. Fath. Vol. 1. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2008. p513-517. COPYRIGHT 2008 Elsevier B.V.
E.B White, Charlotte's Web, Scholastic, Inc. Copyright 1952, PDF edition made by Chaixingiz, March, 27th 2007.
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