I really enjoyed your analysis of female independence and how Carter thinks believes we obtain it. When you discussed how women must experience loss in order to gain their independence, what I took away was that we must realize what we are not in order to realize what we truly are. Good advice for the future and great presentation :)
I can see similar thematic elements but also vast differences between Carter’s writing and that of Beryl Bainbridge. Carter’s opinion is that women must experience true loss in order to determine their full potential, but Bainbridge’s perspective is that most women are frail and are unable to reach their full potential. It’s interesting because although Carter’s perspective deals with a great loss, Bainbridge’s opinion seems more pessimistic. I would like to think that women are not innately frail and that we will eventually be able to reach our fullest potential. I wonder what types of experiences each author had as a child that would cause such vast difference in opinion about their own gender. Specifically because both women lived recently, a time when women had many rights, so I don’t know if it could be a cultural influence.
Personally, I find (through your portrayal) that Angela Carter's writing and novels help to display a message that is somewhat already known, in a way that is unique and different, and is almost like a fairy tale in a way. One of the things that led me to this connection was the titles of her books, "The Magic Toyshop" and "Nights at the Circus". They are titles that you would presume are for the titles of children's books, and that kind of deception is almost is symbol for the loss of innocence idea that is represented in her books.
First I would like to say I enjoyed how you introduced your presentation, with the video from Mary Poppins, I thought it was a very good hook to catch your viewers attention and make them want to watch and listen to the rest of your presentation. I thought that your interpretation of the sword in the novel and how it represented loss of innocence was very well done, and that you also connected in back to the idea of women's independence and how the girl had to lose that innocence through the representation of the sword in order to gain that independence that she was seeking.
I really enjoyed your analysis of female independence and how Carter thinks believes we obtain it. When you discussed how women must experience loss in order to gain their independence, what I took away was that we must realize what we are not in order to realize what we truly are. Good advice for the future and great presentation :)
ReplyDeleteI can see similar thematic elements but also vast differences between Carter’s writing and that of Beryl Bainbridge. Carter’s opinion is that women must experience true loss in order to determine their full potential, but Bainbridge’s perspective is that most women are frail and are unable to reach their full potential. It’s interesting because although Carter’s perspective deals with a great loss, Bainbridge’s opinion seems more pessimistic. I would like to think that women are not innately frail and that we will eventually be able to reach our fullest potential. I wonder what types of experiences each author had as a child that would cause such vast difference in opinion about their own gender. Specifically because both women lived recently, a time when women had many rights, so I don’t know if it could be a cultural influence.
DeletePersonally, I find (through your portrayal) that Angela Carter's writing and novels help to display a message that is somewhat already known, in a way that is unique and different, and is almost like a fairy tale in a way. One of the things that led me to this connection was the titles of her books, "The Magic Toyshop" and "Nights at the Circus". They are titles that you would presume are for the titles of children's books, and that kind of deception is almost is symbol for the loss of innocence idea that is represented in her books.
ReplyDeleteFirst I would like to say I enjoyed how you introduced your presentation, with the video from Mary Poppins, I thought it was a very good hook to catch your viewers attention and make them want to watch and listen to the rest of your presentation. I thought that your interpretation of the sword in the novel and how it represented loss of innocence was very well done, and that you also connected in back to the idea of women's independence and how the girl had to lose that innocence through the representation of the sword in order to gain that independence that she was seeking.
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