Judith Butler questions the notion that certain gendered behaviors are a result of learning the performance of gender behavior‚ that which is associated with masculinity and femininity. She argues that it is a social construction that is only true to the extent of it being performed. Gender as defined in Undoing Gender is a “practice of improvisation within a scene of constraint‚” which is within a social context. The stylization of the body‚ gestures‚ movements and enactments create these
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1ere ES.1 Lucie Review of Criticism: “Mirror” of Sylvia Plath. Freedman‚ William. “ The Monster in Plath’s ‘Mirror‚’ “ in Papers on Language and literature‚ Vol 29‚ No. 2 Spring‚ 1993 pp.152-66. William Freedman describes “Mirror” as a search for the self‚ to discover one self in the person of the mirror. The fish that appears in the mirror is the dark side of the mirror‚ a devouring monster. The glass to Freedman suggests the woman writer. He also
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that Judith is cold and distant‚ that she stands back and observes people like insects in some Biology experiment. But even through she’s uncomfortable stepping out from that safe observational position‚ she still does. She is engage by those around her. She is complex‚ not just a stereotype. She is not English spinster‚ or a bohemian. She is Judith and she seems to be doing just fine. The story shows how that the balance between self and society can me made. It could be argued that Judith is cold
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The notion that gender is socially constructed is an idea that Judith Butler argues against‚ instead she suggests that gender does not exist. Butler states that gender cannot exist until performed‚ these acts that are performed are merely repetitions of pre-established behaviour. Instead we impersonate what we believe to be gender and gender appropriate‚ these gender conventions that are impossible to maintain as every person is different. (Butler 2009) It is these learned behaviours that establish
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Antigone through the lens of Judith Butler’s “Survivability‚ Vulnerability‚ and Affect” Introduction Antigone is tied by two key sentances to the message in Judith Bulter’s “Survivability‚ Vulnerability‚ and Affect”‚ “It has been since at least the time of Antigone‚ when she chose openly to mourn the death of one of her brothers even though it went against the sovereign law to do so. Why is it that governments so often seek to regulate and control who will be publicly grieved and two will not
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In Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Mirror & The Mask”‚ a court poet is asked by the High King of Ireland to create an ode to immortalize their victory against the Norwegians. Moving through the short story‚ we can begin to see a sort of evolution surrounding the ode as it appears to transform from what is perceived as a skillfully crafted literary masterpiece‚ to something much more silent and solemn. In analyzing this evolution‚ we’ll be assisted by Paul Gee’s article‚ “What is Literacy?” As well as a few
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Another disadvantage Judith had to endure was the inability to make her own decisions‚ including but not limiting‚ rights to the money which she had collected‚ and the husband in which she would marry. Woolf expresses the weight of Judith’s opinion about her marriage‚ “Soon‚ however‚ before she was out of her teens‚ she was to be betrothed to the son of a neighboring wool-stapler.”(47). Woolf explains what would happen if Judith were to refused the arranged marriage‚ “the daughter who refused to
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The Identity Crisis of Alice in the Mirror Image In the story “Mirror Image” by Lena Coakley‚ Alice has been in accident which to survive they were only able to save her by performing a brain transplant. She finds herself in the middle of an identity crisis when the doctor was required to exchange her body for someone else’s body. This body had belonged to a girl named Gail. Due to the change in body‚ she finds herself curious about her new body. Also she is quite sensitive about when is
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The story Mirror Image‚ written by Lena Coakley brings up the argument about‚ who we are and finding ourselves. Are we judged by who we are externally or what our thoughts are internally? Lena Coakley truly captures the idea that who we are as a person is defined by what our values and beliefs are and not what we look like on the outside. The first I time I read this story I found myself very confused as did my peers. After re-reading and having a discussion‚ I learned that Mirror Image is not
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school in Pittsburgh everyone thinks it’s normal to see two or three pregnant girls at a time walking down the halls‚ but it doesn’t mean people don’t gossip about them. National Campaign to Prevent Teen pregnancy statistics show that teens are waiting until the age of 16 to have sex‚ that is 2 years longer then they use to. Teen pregnancy rates in Allegheny County reached an all time low in 2003‚ with 984 births with girls of the age of 19 and under. In 2000 the number was 1‚197 and in 1990 it was
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