The Laugh Of Medusa By Clarice Lispector Summary

“The Passion According to G.H.,” by Clarice Lispector was a very exiting reading because it oddly portrayed spiritual rebirth. The small act of squashing a cockroach strangely crashes the story’s narrator and leads her into a waterfall of profound thoughts. The story is centered on the life of a narrator, who is only identified G. H. She basically just sits in her servant’s room and has these bizarre, inevitable thoughts. It is though that G.H.’s entire life is very structured, planned, and well-organized. Her thoughts run her into a different imaginative world of mischiefs and an undeniable pleasurable. Just the thought of smashing this cockroach brings out a different side of her. She imagines taking away an actual life. The majority of the text is taken up with a detailed explanation of her thought processes as she re-examines her life. The re-examination, conversely, is not of the sort found in psychological stories, in which a character might reconsider past actions and resolve to make up for the past. What concerns G. H. is not any specific incidents but rather the tenor of her life. This surface of her existence she has previously overlooked. …show more content…
Cixous insisted that there was a feminine way of writing which could only be accessed through a reawakening of the lived female body. She implied that the female body is an access point for feminine writing. Lispector theorizes the same theory in a different way. She brings into consideration her desire of doing something that’s wrong. Women were portrayed as innocent and weak. Lispector shows the feminism that she is under and brings into consideration the dark side of her. The part of the body that wants to convey something bad, something