Re: paper topic, better late than never? --

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time ]

Subject:

Re: paper topic, better late than never?

Author:
Prof Yun

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 01:24:36 05/09/01 Wed
In reply to: Lisa G. 's message, "paper topic, better late than never?" on 21:14:52 05/07/01 Mon

The theme of "alienation" is a solid topic and certainly one that has been of concern for writers around the world particularly after WWII, the atomic bomb dropped upon Nagasaki, and the horror of the Holocaust. Now you need to push your idea of contemporary alienation a bit. Besides observing or describing the alienation that you have found, what more do you wish to say? What kind of alienation is this: spiritual? physical? emotional? etc. Are you going to offer some insight as to how and why this alienation is particular to the situation she is in? Would you say alienation is a "human condition" for all of us, or is this something of her own making? Or is it the making of the institution? In what ways is "alienation" of individuals enforced through social/political/sexual controls? Is this alienation the kind that you would argue is symptomatic of capitalist systems? Or educational systems? Would you say this theme of alienation is the basic theme that Gilman was driving at?
These are just ideas to jog you a bit but are no means final questions... keep going to flesh this out.

>Ok, well I waited to post a topic until I got a little
>into the paper and had a firm sense of what I was
>doing and could do revising based on a response.
>What I'm doing is discussing the idea of alienation in
>"Spinning Into Butter". I figure I can do this on
>several different levels within the story. For one,
>there is a sense of Sarah's alienation within herself.
> She feels alientated, at least at first, from her own
>feelings of prejudice since she tries to block them
>out. Then there is the sense of alienation from her
>coworkers, who all seem to have different motives and
>agendas. I will also explore the romantic alienation
>she feels in her love life and how the issues with
>Ross are affecting her, I feel, more than we are lead
>to believe in the story. I think that this sense of
>alienation is also prevalent in my own writings of the
>scenes, though I have not decided which one to use yet.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]