Friday, July 6, 2007

Summary and Response to “The Female Body”

The article “The Female Body” by Margaret Atwood is about how she views the female body. Atwood splits the article into sections and the first section is a response to a quote from a newspaper and she replies that the female body can looked at from many different aspects. Section two states the parts that a basic female body comes with. Part three of the article, Atwood displays the female body as a transparent plastic and each major part of a female body each has a certain color button to push for the plastic to illuminate. Section four is about a couple arguing over whether their daughter should be able to have a certain type of doll. Section five, Atwood goes through the many uses of the female body such as pregnancy, sex appeal, and prostitution. The Sixth part is a conversation with a woman and her daughter about sex and makes sure she doesn’t get it mixed up with love. In the last section, Atwood compares the female and male brain to each other and states that a female brain is more connected with itself and that is why women good listeners. The male brain however is less connected with itself and that explains why men feel like they have a void in their life that only a female body can fill.
I know a article about the female body might excite some teenage boys, but this one did not. I really did not understand this essay. It seemed that the author had a hard time keeping track writing this because the article kept jumping around on the most random points of the female body and it was hard to find the main point of the article. It was completely pointless how she had separated the article in sections. It was even hard to get the main point out of the sections. I found this article hard to keep reading. I never want to read an article like this ever again.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

The 'female body' has nothing to do with the anatomy. On the other hand, Atwood describes it in the light of culture. The modern society has always seen the female body as a commodity. Atwood's article is a strong opposition against the culture which views the female body in terms of materialistic angles. Visit Custom Essay Writing Service for insightful analyses.