The Pregnancy Project And Lust: A Literary Analysis

Ideas can be told in various forms. Artists usually express their idea through stories, plays, and poems. Different artists produce similar ideas in the play Legally Blonde, the book “The Pregnancy Project”, and the poem “Lust”. The play Legally Blonde is about a girl, Elle, who after a breakup creates a plan to get him back, but ends up finding herself along with a new love interest. “The Pregnancy Project” is based on a true story in which a girl pretends to be pregnant and discovers herself and how strong she is when everyone turns their backs on her. “Lust” is a poem by Susan Minot in which a girl goes through a sexual promiscuity to find herself. Despite being different genres, they each have a shared theme about how a young girl finds herself.
Elle in Legally Blonde was heartbroken by a boy who she felt was “the one”.
When he broke up with Elle, Elle responded with “Harvard is the perfect setting you will see you’re getting all of those, plus a brain! I’ll meet you there at Harvard with a book in my hand. Big sturdy book, big wordy book. Full of words I’ll understand and right there is where you’ll see it true. Warner what you want is right in front of you!” (Legally Blonde: The Musical) When he got accepted into a prestige college, Elle did everything to get into the school. When got into the school, she later found out he was already engaged. That didn’t stop Elle from becoming a lawyer. She pushed herself despite, everyone being against her. Using her special quirks, she was able to a great lawyer. She developed into a great women who knew her
self-worth.
Gaby Rodriguez is a young girl who for her senior project does something that defies a huge stereotype her culture faces: teen pregnancy. Her mom and generations above of all had young pregnancies. Gaby wanting a school project that’s unheard, wants to fake a pregnancy and see how it really affected the live of her mother, and other family members. Only a few people knew about the pregnancy being fake, so everyone else’s attitude towards the “pregnancy” ease real. Her family faced huge disgrace among people in town. Teachers expressed their disgrace to Gaby. Many of her friends dumped her. Very limited people stuck with Gaby through this project. Although there was times in which Gaby wanted to stop the project, her strong will allowed her to continue till the reveal. Rodrigues commented, “You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different form something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The perquisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them”(Rodriguez). Throughout these experience project, Gaby figured out how strong she was and who is really her friends.
Minot’s poem “Lust” is about a girl finding herself while at a private school. She tries to fit in with her sexually active peers. The narrator wants an emotional connection but the people she is sleeping with do not give her that. “You do everything they want. Then comes after. After when they don’t look at you”, the narrator describes that there’s no emotional connection at all (Minot 237).She discovers over the years, that sleeping with the people is not what she wants. Over the time period she finds out who she really is.
Although all of this examples are of different genres, they each share a common theme: self-independence. Each girl went through something in her life to make her the person she is today. The story, play, and poem all have different scenarios but still share a common theme.