Sarahs Key
Features to consider in all 4 texts:
- plotline and structure
- elements: earth/air/water/fire
- animals
- narrative perspective (and time)
- sight and blindness (delayed decoding)
- sound and silence
- settings
- character foils
- women (i.e. roles - conventional vs. unconventional)
-artifacts!!....?
The Wars and Lispector - Animals
Lispector and Findley use animals to develop the theme: by becoming civilized and raising social expectations we in turn degrade ourselves to things that hardly feel or live hence becoming below animals despite our ability to be dominant and progress the world.
- Animals represent the ability to interpret the world clearly and be able to enjoy it for all its worth and how humans have lost that ability: o Lispector uses “Smallest Woman in the World”, “The chicken”, “Mystery at São Cristóvão”. o Smallest woman…. The woman shows pure and untainted emotions at seeing the explorer and gives him love simply because he does not eat her: Shows how innocence brings about more pure and complete joys and how the smallest woman (uncivilized and primal), an animal, is innocent in her blindness to the workings of the world.
In the Buffalo, the animals in the zoo are portrayed as being innocent and true while the woman is harbouring negative and desperate feelings of love o Smallest woman…. Is used to compare the uncivilized degrading human thoughts and the pure feelings and emotions shown by animals: Who is truly civilized and rational? o The chicken is shown to be innocent and ignorant as it is almost killed by a family, and is then taken in by it. The chicken does not care that those who tried to kill her a moment ago now provide her with shelter. It leads its life based on primal needs of security however this also means that she is happy so long as her future is seemingly secure. o Mystery blah blah blah portrays the animal faces on the masks as innocence to try and block their humanity and loss of
- plotline and structure
- elements: earth/air/water/fire
- animals
- narrative perspective (and time)
- sight and blindness (delayed decoding)
- sound and silence
- settings
- character foils
- women (i.e. roles - conventional vs. unconventional)
-artifacts!!....?
The Wars and Lispector - Animals
Lispector and Findley use animals to develop the theme: by becoming civilized and raising social expectations we in turn degrade ourselves to things that hardly feel or live hence becoming below animals despite our ability to be dominant and progress the world.
- Animals represent the ability to interpret the world clearly and be able to enjoy it for all its worth and how humans have lost that ability: o Lispector uses “Smallest Woman in the World”, “The chicken”, “Mystery at São Cristóvão”. o Smallest woman…. The woman shows pure and untainted emotions at seeing the explorer and gives him love simply because he does not eat her: Shows how innocence brings about more pure and complete joys and how the smallest woman (uncivilized and primal), an animal, is innocent in her blindness to the workings of the world.
In the Buffalo, the animals in the zoo are portrayed as being innocent and true while the woman is harbouring negative and desperate feelings of love o Smallest woman…. Is used to compare the uncivilized degrading human thoughts and the pure feelings and emotions shown by animals: Who is truly civilized and rational? o The chicken is shown to be innocent and ignorant as it is almost killed by a family, and is then taken in by it. The chicken does not care that those who tried to kill her a moment ago now provide her with shelter. It leads its life based on primal needs of security however this also means that she is happy so long as her future is seemingly secure. o Mystery blah blah blah portrays the animal faces on the masks as innocence to try and block their humanity and loss of