Friday, May 8, 2009

Part2

So I'm going to lump all the women into one, because I think that they sort of played off of each other through the play. Walcott definitely decided that each woman would represent a different type of female archetype. Circe was that image of a femme fatale, I thought. Sort of that Bond girl who tries to kill you before having sex with you. I'm not sure the appeal but I believe that it's there. There's also a guess a lesbian undertone, in that she's a woman living on an island of women who worship her who hate men. So getting to sleep with the queen of female power would be a moment of extreme male domination. Penelope was had this trait as well. But she was more the tamed tough girl. Kind of like a gangster's wife. The kind of woman who could kill you if she needed to but loved you too much to want to ever do it. There was also a lot of sass that tends to be associated with black female culture. A specific type of playful challenge that she gives to all the men around her. If she wasn't so strong I would call her a tease. It's more like a pride that usurps modesty. The women are just as strong as the men in this play, moving as major personalities. Penelope definitely isn't the type of woman to stand behind her husband in company like the Penelope in the poem. She's definitely the type of woman who stands beside her husband.

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