Since the beginning of time, women have been seen as different from men. Their beauty and charm have been interpreted as captivating and deadly to men. In the Bible, it was Eve's mistake that led humanity into exile from the Garden of Eden. However, unlike the Bible, in today's world women who lead men to ruin do not do so through simple mistakes and misunderstandings, but do so while being fully aware of the effects their sexuality can cause. One thing remains constant in these depictions of women, and that is that they are portrayed as flawed and therefore monstrous creations. It is a woman's sexual desire and sexuality that can lead to her monstrosity. The femme fatale is a seductive, exquisitely beautiful and erotic character who plays the ultimate freak of nature: she shows her beauty, captures the man and tries to kill him. Films such as Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction and stories such as Geoffrey Chaucer's Bride of Bath's Tale and Sir Gawain the Green Knight use the femme fatale as a means of transforming a woman into a monster; the femme fatale can never win in the battle of the sexes. But what is it that makes the femme fatale such a dangerous character for the hero as well as readers or viewers? In the film Fatal Attraction, Dan has an extramarital affair with Alex Forrest one weekend while his wife and daughter are away. After spending the weekend with Alex, Dan tells her that they need to break things off because he loves his wife. Alex, however, has different ideas and refuses to take no for an answer telling him: I will not be ignored, Dan. Alex uses his sinister attraction to wreak havoc by stalking Dan, kidnapping his daughter, boiling the family rabbit, and trying to kill his wife, thus becoming...... middle of paper......and Review of English Studies 49.193 (1998): 1+. Academic OneFile. Network. February 9, 2014.Ellis, Kate. “Fatal Attraction, or the Postmodern Prometheus.” Journal of Sex Research 27.1 (1990): 111-22. Academic research completed. Network. 9 February 2014. Fatal Attraction. Director Adrian Lyne. Perf. Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer. Paramount Pictures, 1987. At school. Straus, Barrie Ruth. "The Subversive Speech of the Wife of Bath: Phallocentric Discourse and the Captivity of Criticism." ELH 55.3 (1988): 527-54. JSTOR. Network. February 9. 2014. .