Pygmalions Bride

To start off, the first stanza in her song represents a sense of how unavoidable change is and how the confusion of the bond combined with the stress of the blame game can lead to a doomed

The poem’s structure as a sonnet allows the speaker’s feelings of distrust and heartache to gradually manifest themselves as the poem’s plot progresses. Each quatrain develops and intensifies the speaker’s misery, giving the reader a deeper insight into his convoluted emotions. In the first quatrain, the speaker advises his former partner to not be surprised when she “see[s] him holding [his] louring head so low” (2). His refusal to look at her not only highlights his unhappiness but also establishes the gloomy tone of the poem. The speaker then uses the second and third quatrains to justify his remoteness; he explains how he feels betrayed by her and reveals how his distrust has led him

The next stanza goes on to tell the reader how the woman is going to

We are reminded of the egotistical nature of the persona that Duffy has created when the phrase, ‘I am a genius’ is repeated. This contradicts what was said about how the character didn’t understand Shakespeare and we see how the character is self-loving and very confident about their intelligence. Throughout the poem we see how the character has been cast out from society. This is shown in the phrase ‘I could be anything at all, with half the chance’, this shows how the character feels they have been let down by the rest of society and they haven’t been given the opportunity to show that they could be a big part of society. This also links into the idea that this character has some sort of hatred towards the education system. In the last stanza it says, ‘he cuts me off’. Although this refers to a telephone call, this is a metaphor for how everyone ‘cuts the character off’. This line comes straight after the phrase ‘he’s talking to a superstar’ which again shows the egotistical nature of this character. We see that the character may have a psychopathic nature in the final phrase, ‘I touch your arm’, this makes the poem very personal as if it could affect you. This sends out a message to the reader that we as a society need to make

-The sculptor Pygmalion wanted nothing to do with these women who lacked morals. He was very lonely and decided to sculpt an ivory statue of a beautiful woman. She had such striking and realistic features that he fell in love with

His “unlined” face has yet to have the heat of a forge baking the sweat off his face and cracking the skin transitioning him into a man. A man that needs to learn the craft of forgetting the burdens everyday life gives him. The line, “eyes amber as the resin from trees too young to be cut.”(ll 10-11). reinforces that he has to grow and be ‘seasoned’ before he is truly ready to make the transition and tackle the craft of drinking until numb. These lines like an artist waiting to sculpt their stone into something else. The reference of the eyes gives a relation to the difference of her father’s young and hopeful eyes that have not seen what her grandfathers have. This is important as it gives the wisdom and long struggle that separates the apprentice from the master. Eyes have also been described as windows to the soul and the way she relates her father’s eyes as young and translucent that have yet to meet the destructive force that well in her grandfather’s eyes.

This is a representation of how the political and religious systems in the Late Medieval Ages treated women as the subordinates of men. It is the woman who attempts to bribe the skeletons with a bowl of coins to try to cheat out of death. None of the other male figures attempt to cheat death. This is significantly similar to the Christian biblical story of Adam and Eve and how it was Eve’s fault for eating the apple and causing orignal sin. The Christian idea and stereotype of women trying to cheat the system and sinning has still be translated through this painting. However, it is clear that the attempts to cheat death are futile and that death has no biases or judgements.

The narrator of the poem is in love with Porphyria. He soon learns that love taken to the extreme is not much love at all. “I listened with heart fit to break” He was so attached to her that any emotion she shows greatly affects him. “To set its struggling passion free, From pride , and vainer ties dissever.” This is the beginning of his consciousness disconnection her from being a person to her being a construct of his obsession. She became just a figment that he could control. Nevertheless, turning from love into and overwhelming insanity. “And strangled her. No pain felt she; I am quite sure she felt no pain.” He thinks she felt no pain because he does not associate her with a living being anymore. Furthermore, she is just a side effect of a twisted individual's mind consumed by his extreme love for her.  The extreme change in his mood shows his love changing from a feeling to an

Her suffering may have led to her to age. The mark making techniques used emphasis her wrinkles. By the artist doing so, we understand that depression may have been one of the reasons for her aging. The dark tones used therefore relates to the idea of agony. Emotions play a big part of this artwork.

All through the poem Piercy uses imagery to help readers understand society’s standard, and what happens when you change yourself for it. After people criticized her, she finally snapped, “So she cut off her nose and her legs” (17). The image provided to the reader is very aggressive and brutal, and it could’ve been portrayed a bit less violent, but the author executed this on purpose to show imagery. Imagery is applied to help the reader visualize what they’re reading, provided in this case she’s cutting off her own legs to try and fit society’s standards. Since those two body parts were the most disliked by society, she just cut them off to look “perfect”. Those standards

The subject in reference to the concept of the painting in this chapter is chiefly Gerty MacDowell. Joyce lays the scene like an establishing shot of a movie, slowly revealing specific details about the setting. I can scarcely think of the sublime nature and aesthetics of painting without thinking of the mythology surrounding the Roman goddess, Venus and her representation of sex. Like Venus, Gerty acts as a vehicle of seduction. “Her woman’s instinct told her that she had raised the devil in him and at the thought a burning scarlet swept from throat to brow till the lovely colour of her face became a glorious rose” (U 13. 295). The art of the painting functions as an approach to describing Gerty’s seductive venture as Bloom’s detumescence.

The transition from purity to corruption is displayed in the contrast between the left and right halves of the figure, where the positioning of both Adam and Eve are adapted to demonstrate their guilt. The nature of the figural strategies of both Adam and Eve in the left quadrant of the piece are open, with physical action exuding confidence and a greater saturation of color in the skin tone representing vitality. In the right quadrant of the piece the figures displayed towards the edge of the work with body positioning hunched, and shading of the figures becoming darker and more obscure suggesting the emotional transition to shame. The connection between woman and sin is demonstrated in the middle of the painting where the connection Eve shares with the serpent, in both physical touch and gender, indicates her temptation and predisposition to corruption.The focus specifically on Eve within these two narrative scenes is indicative of her fall, through the use of strategic position,open to closed, and shading, saturated and bright to muted and dark, to represent her turn from purity to corruption. Eve within the left side of the painting is unabashedly displayed, maintaining a position of subservience to Adam beside his feet. However Eve’s gaze and extension towards the serpent serves as the focal point. The focus on Eve indicates her importance in the transgression without the acknowledgement of Adam. This interaction supports the argument of women's ability to be seduced if left unassisted by the moral compasses of man. The hand placement additionally parallels the God and Adam portraiture

In ancient Cyprus, a king named Pygmalion, unsuccessfully set out to seek a woman whom he felt would be his equal. As a result of not finding such an equal, he chiseled an ivory statue of what he considered to be the perfect woman. He put in countless hours of work to complete his task and when he was done, the statue, in his eyes was so perfect and beautiful, that he fell in love with it but unfortunately, his object of desire was made out of stone. The goddess of love, Aphrodite, took pity on him and made his statue come to life.

This is all about a young girl that was at a ‘party, early Sunday morning’ she was there with a boy who forced her her ‘to the quit bricks of Birkenhead docks’ This is a place ‘far’ away from the traffic of the city and ‘far’ away from anyone who could see them. In this poem, it is repeated far two times. This makes it more sinister and clearer how alone they are. In the next part, we have again, repetition as it says ‘he’ 3 times at the beginning of the sentence. It’s all about him being in charge. All about this part of the poem shows that he doesn't love her as he is calling her a ‘little slag’ and makes her drunk. But ‘ she had met him at a party and danced with him all night ‘ shows that she is fascinated and probably likes it that someone has only eyes for her but also it’s also pretty obvious that he tries to impress her. He doesn't let her go and is giving all his attention to her. She is already ‘’in love’’ as she is impressed and just under his spell. In this poem, we will find a few similes like ‘With his eyes blue as iodine’ this is all about his two faced personality as iodine is beautiful but toxic. He is trying to get her far away from the crowded city. He is in charge and isn't even asking if she wants to go there he is just saying ‘i will show you…’ He knows what he is doing and isn't even thinking about how wrong this is. She is wearing her White high shoes. In some countries they people still think that they

These moments gain even more meaning when juxtaposed with the text’s many reminders that Lucy is not beautiful. In these scenes, however, Lucy has been done up to fit the part of a beautiful woman and she is unhappy with the result. Gilbert and Gubar refer to a “woman’s own tendency to ‘kill’ herself into art in order ‘to appeal to man” (14). On one hand, Lucy can not do this because her looks do not allow it, though on the other, even when she is done up for this purpose she does not like what she sees. Thus,