Naked Girl And Mirror Belonging
Individuals journeying into new experiences are often clouded with preformed expectations of future outcomes. However, through the triumph of confronting personal and social challenges, one is able to gain rewards, much greater than their desired results. The film “Billy Elliot” directed by Stephen Daldry explores the importance of having support and a receptive mindset for when individuals embark on difficult periods in life to achieve their ambitions. Comparatively, the poem “Naked Girl and Mirror” written by Judith Wright expresses the value of understanding change in order to embrace opportunities from the inevitable stages of life. Ultimately, both texts explore transitions through adolescence and affirms that overcoming obstacles through
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Seeking an understanding of obscure changes in an individual's life and refusing to conform to social normalities, stimulates a discovery of self-identity. This is evident in the last two stanzas of the poem ‘Naked Girl and Mirror’, when the protagonist seeks her individuality in the mist of her confusion of adolescence. Wright’s use of oxymoron “lovely, hateful” reveals to the audience the self-conflict the protagonist has with herself. The word ‘lovely’ which represents something beautiful accentuate that the character still has a sense of self-love despite her forced changes. Although physically she is changing, mentally her perception of who she was is still present, that she still sees a sweet girl within herself. However, the word ‘hateful’ which corresponds with detesting something illustrates the protagonists loathe for her new bodily figure because of the expectations that are placed upon her by society now that she is a woman, which strips away her individualism. Although the character has a sense of hatred for this process, Wright uses high modality of “must” and “will” in “I must serve you; I will obey” to establish further to the audience the new perception the character acquires. Through Wright’s use of high modality it promotes the resolution the protagonist has found within herself. By submitting to who she now is, underlines that she is doing this for herself in order to gain full self-acceptance and that she is placing herself first before society. Thus, Wright expresses that experiences will result to individuals gaining a new unexpected perception of
Seeking an understanding of obscure changes in an individual's life and refusing to conform to social normalities, stimulates a discovery of self-identity. This is evident in the last two stanzas of the poem ‘Naked Girl and Mirror’, when the protagonist seeks her individuality in the mist of her confusion of adolescence. Wright’s use of oxymoron “lovely, hateful” reveals to the audience the self-conflict the protagonist has with herself. The word ‘lovely’ which represents something beautiful accentuate that the character still has a sense of self-love despite her forced changes. Although physically she is changing, mentally her perception of who she was is still present, that she still sees a sweet girl within herself. However, the word ‘hateful’ which corresponds with detesting something illustrates the protagonists loathe for her new bodily figure because of the expectations that are placed upon her by society now that she is a woman, which strips away her individualism. Although the character has a sense of hatred for this process, Wright uses high modality of “must” and “will” in “I must serve you; I will obey” to establish further to the audience the new perception the character acquires. Through Wright’s use of high modality it promotes the resolution the protagonist has found within herself. By submitting to who she now is, underlines that she is doing this for herself in order to gain full self-acceptance and that she is placing herself first before society. Thus, Wright expresses that experiences will result to individuals gaining a new unexpected perception of