AGENDA:
For Tuesday, April 12
Post a response to Questions 3 and 4.
Period 3-Finish nonlinear stories and turn them in! End of marking period is this Friday.
Period 4--Mr. O'Kane will show the film The Hours (providing the projector does not overheat) starting with scene 2. If there are sound problems, someone help out and set the mixer on headphones.
Go over information from the previous class about motifs if you did not get a chance to do that.
Olivia Spenard
ReplyDelete3. Each of the three female characters is written to be unstable. Whether or not this makes them insane, Cunningham leaves up to the interpretation of the reader. If anything, each of the characters has an incredibly heightened sense of awareness.
4. By making each of the characters, even Clarissa, stuck in a . stereotypical, difficult to escape from, "motherly" or female role, he gives them each a common frustration. This is a reflection of the way society restricts women, and seems to squeeze them into a box until they fit just well enough to keep them from getting out. Cunningham could be implying that, due to society, this is the destiny of every woman in every decade or era.
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ReplyDelete3. Cunningham is both playing with the idea that insanity is essentially a form of hyper awareness in which these women become very perceptive to their own relationships, society, and the world around them and they are in a sense overwhelmed by it. And at the the same time Cunningham begins to see what happens to those with truly creative and brilliant minds and in his assessment he seems to believe that have to be insane, or at least that its unavoidable.
ReplyDelete4. I think that Cunningham is begging the question that maybe the real and strongest societal pressures are not to be straight or anything like that but to be a mother or a father or a wife. And that is what really brings out people's unhappiness with the world around us.
Jasmina, Janelys, Jahde
ReplyDelete3. The novel implies that there is no difference between insanity and sanity. Everyone is a little bit insane in a way. Cunningham stresses that insanity is simple being aware of things; almost hyper sensitive. Each of the characters is very aware of their feelings and what not and for that they each are a little insane.
4. The fact that Clarissa has ended up with a fairly conventional lifestyle indicates that at this time, society restricted women specifically to be the ‘perfect mother’. This applies to all of the characters. They were all expected to be a certain way; feminine, delicate etc. The author reinforces this.
3. Cunningham portrays each of the protagonists as unstable and each of them has a heighten sense of awareness. He leaves up to interpretation for the reading.
ReplyDelete4. Each of the characters are stuck in this stereotype of being motherly, it makes it difficult to escape from it. This is a reflection of society placing people in stereotypes, making people feel unhappy with their life.
Amanda and Reyenne
3. In the novel the three characters are written to be seen as unstable or insane, but its still up to the reader to decide because they might not actually be insane. The three characters have unstable traits but that doesn't make them completely crazy because everyone has things about them that isn't logical so deciding whether or not if they're sane or insane is totally based off the perspective of the reader.
ReplyDelete4. By making the characters having to deal with a similar issue which is being restricted din a male dominate society and expecting all women to just be a loving, caring mother only helps gives the reader more insight on the society that the charactersa are living in.
3. Cunningham implies that you cant be label as insane because usually it forms a sense of awareness upon the charterer. Each woman knows what they are doing and how they are feeling. That doesn't make them so insane.
ReplyDelete4. For their time period they lived up to the stereotype that they were to be housewives and take care of their kids. The stereotype they had to live up to made them very unhappy with their life style.
3) each of the three women are having issues in the book but are for the most part ordinary people. They all have a heightened sense of awareness but are not necessarily interpreted as insane.
ReplyDelete4) this indicates that society is unaccepting of her ways. Even though she enjoys being the way she is, she chooses to play the role she is supposed to play according to society.
3)all three women could be called insane, however insane could be judged off the emotions of the person judging. Cunningham implies that having an height of awareness does not make you crazy thus you are protecting yourself and the ones you love which makes you aware
ReplyDelete4)the place they lived in like there society and surrounding didn't allow them to be anything other than what they were suppose to be,, housewives. Cook, clean, and feed.