Analysis Of De Beauvoir's Gardens Of The Moon

Gardens of the Moon then throws an extra twist for the woman in the book by taking De Beauvoir’s “woman are made” theory and slashing all weak from the female and making her two women in one. Not until later in the story are we made aware of her name as Sorry. “If they had two arms, two legs and a head, take them. The Genabackis campaign was a mess. Fresh bodies were needed. He grinned at the girl. She matched the Fist’s description perfectly.” (Erikson, 45) “To say [a] woman is [a] mystery is to say, not that she is silent, but that her language is not understood; she is there, but hidden behind veils; she exists beyond these uncertain appearances.” (De Beauvoir, 1269) No one paying this young girl any mind and not realizing the under layers of Sorry actually being a young girl combined with a seer gives her an edge that no other character in the book has.
Though De Beauvoir meant this text to mean something different when applied to Sorry she gives the meaning of De Beauvoir’s words a new one to look over. She steps out of the mode De Beauvoir creates and makes her own mode as a strong person laced with different levels of herself, none of which will be hidden behind a veil except in the imagery of two people sharing one body. She is described as, “Sorry, 9th Squad, a deadly killer in the guise of a young girl.” (Erikson, 17) The …show more content…
It is Tattersail show isn’t for showing attachments in this connection. They have reversed roles in a sense and De Beauvoir doesn’t see this as possible; Tattersail shouldn’t be feeling fulfilled in her relationship with Calot. To take Tattersail and Calot a step further in the underlying of De Beauvoir’s notions men are to be a certain way as woman are. Calot is not supposed to be in the role he’s placed in but Erikson has taken and made Calot a man with feelings for his woman. A man that would and did put his girl above