Analysis Of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Welcome to Stockholm, Sweden. This is the hometown of the author, and also the setting of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Like any large city, there are numerous people that resort to crime and heinous acts. Here in Stockholm, corrupt businessmen, neo-nazi nationalists, rapists, and misogynists hide in the darkest, most grotesque recesses of the city. In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson attempts to exhibit the ideals and reveal the harsh atrocities performed by criminals in Stockholm, an image all too similar to the crooks in his hometown. This revelation materializes through the two main conflicts surrounding the main characters Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist. The conflicts involves their search for truth in the face
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Larsson witnessed the rape of a woman as a child in Stockholm, which prompted him to write The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with an underlying message to raise awareness towards the rape and mistreatment of women in Stockholm and put an end to it. It is through the conflicts of Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander that we see these actual real life atrocities transpire. Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander both face the hefty conflict of having to solve the murder mystery of the Vanger family. They spend the entire novel seeking the answer to the disappearance of Harriet Vanger. Mikael, with the help of Lisbeth Salander, is able to finally uncover the family secret that the males in the Vanger family (excluding Henrik) are actually serial rapists who torture and murder women. Harriet Vanger was mistreated, raped, and abused which prompted her to run away from home explaining her disappearance. This conflict can be juxtaposed to the conflict between Lisbeth and her guardian, in which she is raped several times in her adolescence and in the middle of the story. This treatment of Lisbeth as well as the treatment of the Vanger victims allows the message of misogyny to resonate in the reader's mind. These people, the Vangers and Lisbeth’s legal guardian, represent the woman-haters of Stockholm, a group of people Larsson strived to expose. It is through these conflicts that Larsson’s message is revealed; the people of Stockholm need to be aware of these people roaming the streets, and should be punished for their mistreatment of
Larsson witnessed the rape of a woman as a child in Stockholm, which prompted him to write The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with an underlying message to raise awareness towards the rape and mistreatment of women in Stockholm and put an end to it. It is through the conflicts of Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander that we see these actual real life atrocities transpire. Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander both face the hefty conflict of having to solve the murder mystery of the Vanger family. They spend the entire novel seeking the answer to the disappearance of Harriet Vanger. Mikael, with the help of Lisbeth Salander, is able to finally uncover the family secret that the males in the Vanger family (excluding Henrik) are actually serial rapists who torture and murder women. Harriet Vanger was mistreated, raped, and abused which prompted her to run away from home explaining her disappearance. This conflict can be juxtaposed to the conflict between Lisbeth and her guardian, in which she is raped several times in her adolescence and in the middle of the story. This treatment of Lisbeth as well as the treatment of the Vanger victims allows the message of misogyny to resonate in the reader's mind. These people, the Vangers and Lisbeth’s legal guardian, represent the woman-haters of Stockholm, a group of people Larsson strived to expose. It is through these conflicts that Larsson’s message is revealed; the people of Stockholm need to be aware of these people roaming the streets, and should be punished for their mistreatment of