The "Estrangement" talks about the relationship between mother and daughter. It's a complicated relationship, because the mother had a very awful behaviour towards her daughter and her other children as well. She didn't even care when her mother died. The whole society knew her as a good person, as a perfect one who loves her children, her family and has a good behaviour, but none of them knew how she was behind the closed doors. Well, mothers and daughters are expected to have a close relationship with each other, sharing feelings or maybe secrets and in this story we don't have this kind of connection. On the other hand we also notice the connection between the dauhter who has a very good relationship with her own children totally different from her mother's. After reading it, it gave me a strange feeling, because is very painful when mothers and daughters have not a strong or good relationship and in our case it is even more painful when the daughter didn't even care when her mother died.
"Barbie doll" by Marge Piercy.
"Barbie doll" is a poem which talks about a girl who was born as usual and was the same as the others. She is told that she has a big nose and fat legs. She was healthy and intelligent but no one liked her as she was, no one accepted her and this is the reason why at the end she makes herself a transformation. One of the main themes in this poem is insecurity and bully, because the girl feels insecure from the moment when the others judge her for her appearance and so she decides to transformate herserf into a perfect apperance as the others "wished" her to be. Now she was liked by others, because she looked like a "doll". So, she became the person whom society wanted her to be, despite the fact how she really felt.
No comments:
Post a Comment