Heart of Darkness
This book starts and ends as a story told by a man named Marlow. History is basically about imperialism, civilization, and a man with a great reputation named Kurtz. I might not have been too careful in reading but it … Continue reading → Continue reading →
The Second Sex
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir deals with the same concept as Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of Rights of Woman. The Second Sex is about how women are treated in reality, how men and women are treated unequally in our … Continue reading → Continue reading →
“darkness”
I really enjoyed Heart of Darkness, but I’m fairly sure I understood almost none of it. (Lecture tends to be good at clarifying things for me though, so I’m not too worried.) The first thing I noticed was the chunks of text and lack of paragraph separation, I will admit. I grew used to it as […] Continue reading →
Grimm is about right
To start: “Consider a monologue describing in sequence all of an individual’s recollections. It would sound as a meaningless cacophony even to the narrator.” (Trouillot 15) As I was reading Heart of Darkness, I came to realize that the whole book can be described (sort of) with this quote from Silencing the Past. I say […] Continue reading →
Who run the world? Girls. (just kidding.)
Pre-reading, I thought: another gender-related text? a short text? I haven’t seen this in awhile. a short text WITH footnotes? cool, less reading, could prove to be beneficial when writing that essay… Post-reading: I felt that even though de Beauvoir advocates for different things than the last text we read, Wollstonecraft, there were many things […] Continue reading →
Beauvoir x Reworking x Symbol of
Hi everyone. Sorry for missing the seminar on Friday, got my wisdom teeth pulled (still a little bruised today). Just finished up The Second Sex. I found the way that Beauvoir reworks psychoanalysis really insightful. Even the form/style which she … Continue reading → Continue reading →
The never ending cycle of evil
As my title addresses, I do not like this book. Sadly like a nihilistic I find the sardonic vibe of irony that every week I am becoming weaker to the ideals of feminism and gender. The ideas increase because of De Beauvoir’s ideas match mind with her heavily leftist views. The pain that I have […] Continue reading →
litererrors 2014-03-10 12:39:01
I am so ecstatic about this text that I can come up with neither a good title nor a good opening. This woman is seriously amazing, and I think I like this mostly because it’s not aggressive feminism but instead a push for equality. Her tone is readable and her language isn’t too flowery, and […] Continue reading →
Golden Globes
Yes, a short text. One time in grade eleven I almost read The Second Sex. Then I decided against it, partially because I didn’t want to read a huge book (yet I still borrowed it – I know), and also because I looked up the Parshley translation and found that it was widely criticized. Attempting […] Continue reading →
Wollstonecraft Me
Wollstonecraft’s argument was really not what I was expecting. It’s basically the “legalize, regulate, and tax” argument but applied to women’s right. I mean her argument is basically: Women are naturally inferior, so don’t make us more inferior else we won’t be able to be good mothers and wives; besides, women are going to try […] Continue reading →