tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81694817786915556822024-03-05T05:36:14.975-08:00An Analysis of "Barbie Doll" by Marge PiercyTiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03834753248645556833noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8169481778691555682.post-9971534182861839532007-12-05T08:08:00.000-08:002007-12-05T08:17:55.533-08:00Works CitedDoherty, Patricia, Marge Piercy: <em>An Annotated Bibliography,</em> Wespoa, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. <a href="http://www.margepiercy.com/">www.margepiercy.com</a><br /><br /> Piercy, Marge, <em>Barbie Doll.</em> Perrine's Literature Structure, Sound, and Sense. 9th Edition. Ed. Michael Rosenburg. (2006); 761-762.<br /><br /> Shands, Kerstin W, <em>The Repair of the World</em>: The novels of Marge Piercy, Greenwood Publishing Group, Connecticut, 1994.Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03834753248645556833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8169481778691555682.post-9655341190136408202007-12-05T07:50:00.000-08:002007-12-05T08:08:17.037-08:00Analysis<span style="color:#cc33cc;">Society's idea to be attractive is to be nothing less than ideal. To lack perfection is not acceptable in today's society; therfore we have come to see what society sees in us as "ugly". The desire to be accepted destroys our self-esteem. We will do whatever it takes to not think of what society views as disturbing. We lose sight of our true beauty. When we change ourselves to live up society's expectations of us, we either are at peace or we continue to see what others made fun of. In the poem, "a classmate said: You have a great big nose and thinck legs". She could have either took it in and swallowed her pride and not said anything and stayed at peace or continue to face the fact she was different.</span><br /><span style="color:#cc33cc;">At the end of the poem the casket represents her mental, emotional, and physical state now that she is perfected. Now she does not have to listen to the mean things kids say. She is at peace with society and herself. The casket could also mean that she she dead. She committed suicide by cutting off her nose and legs. Her life is now fullfilled now that she looks pretty even though the cost was her life.</span>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03834753248645556833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8169481778691555682.post-54536843046403973052007-12-05T07:35:00.000-08:002008-11-13T13:33:41.693-08:00THE AUTHOR<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBhHtPFK_NrKgdgVuFlTJFAZo3j24_gqXa8vQUiuZcs1CPLVjasIUsBaqblJhozGbq3_e2c2R8KTMGJDVcnasosch8Ss6PXENDrP1-yGb7ghmeToFx42zh5iTxSYngKWPJ6gfP_87qrfE/s1600-h/marge1.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140514551997220258" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBhHtPFK_NrKgdgVuFlTJFAZo3j24_gqXa8vQUiuZcs1CPLVjasIUsBaqblJhozGbq3_e2c2R8KTMGJDVcnasosch8Ss6PXENDrP1-yGb7ghmeToFx42zh5iTxSYngKWPJ6gfP_87qrfE/s320/marge1.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Marge Piercy was born on March 31, 1936 in Detroit. She is a poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright. She tends to write frequently about womens issues, particuraly in ways that women have been made inferior both about their minds and their bodies.</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">"Marge Piercy is not just an author, she is a cultural touchstone. Few writers in modern memory have sustained her passion, and skill, for creating stories of consequences."</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">- The Boston Globe</span></div><br /><div></div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03834753248645556833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8169481778691555682.post-41716138102732543362007-12-05T07:26:00.000-08:002007-12-05T07:33:37.677-08:00THEME<span style="color:#3333ff;">In Marge Piercy's "Barbie Doll", we find a young girl growing up through the adolensence stage and look through only her apperance. The girl struggles alot during her teenage years and she shows us the effects that can happen when the world only looks on the outside of a human being.</span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">The World today has a way of placing unrealistic expectations on women. By using television, the internet, magazines, billboards and even toys we see a mold of what women are supposed to look like. The world in our eyes make us women think we should look like a Barbie Doll.</span>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03834753248645556833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8169481778691555682.post-56616665734946564432007-12-03T11:36:00.000-08:002008-11-13T13:33:41.838-08:00An Analysis of "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy<div><span style="color:#cc33cc;">THE POEM</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">This girlchild was born as usual</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">and presented dolls that did pee-pee</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">and miniture GE stoves and irons</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy.</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said:</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">You have a great big nose and fat legs.</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">She was healthy, tested intelligent,</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">possessed strong arms and back,</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">abundant sexual drive and manual dexerity.</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">She went to and fro apologizing.</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs.</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">She was advised to play coy,</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">exhorted to come on hearty,</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">exercise, diet, smile and wheedle.</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">her good nature wore out</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">like a fan belt.</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">So she cut off her nose and her legs</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">and offered them up.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">In the casket displayed on satin she lay</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on,</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">a turned-up putty nose,</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">dressed in a pink and white nightie.</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">Dosen't she look pretty ? everyone said.</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">Consummation at last.</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">To every woman a happy ending.</span> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140515041623492018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp1Oh7DUBJjyTw2mJGilrpCjk-Tr833EItVzK_y9FLo848C08bEA3DblBPUjK4HiNetbU9V2mM-6eylydFF6Y-YvWGgAu4qiHIMlvRXe2DFvN72aUiRZ7LHDJC9hZovsmzdYmgzJpIoZ0/s320/Marge_Yellow_Tree_thumb2.jpg" border="0" /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">Marge Piercy (b.1936)</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3366ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3366ff;"></span></div><br /><div></div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03834753248645556833noreply@blogger.com0