ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: These Girls, Chisel, Adverb
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- almost women and not quite thus, little & a coming to age story ---- beginning of adolscene fiction. I know they will do their duty faithfully, fight their bosom enemies bravely, and conquer(pg. 11) These girls are not going to the celestial city -- trying to live up to mr. march"s ideal of little women aka american domestic view of feminity in 90s. Same language of fight being used with respect to their enemies -- girl"s plot is internal, moral, and psychologicalized --- language is really violent. In this book and girls, it is a constant struggle. Conventional understanding of femininty -- women naturallly becomes a physiologically. - you may chisel a boy into shape, but you cannot hammar a girl into anything. She grows as flower does -- inevitable womenhood/girlhood. Mr. march"s letter -- girl hammaring herself into the required conventional women. Inevitable little women hood, marmee"s romantic notion who doesn"t agree with her husband, and mr. march"s self conquest.
