Nasser Alshareef
Dr. Jason DePolo
ENGL 755.001
30 March 2016
What is the Medusa?
Introduction
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality; a great deal of women have been taught this saying and they feel it is deeply true. Helene Cixous, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, apparently agrees with the aforementioned saying by the time she wrote The Laugh of the Medusa. Cixous commences by constructing her credibility with being one of the female pioneers of feminism and also stating historical facts, and effectively using rhetorical features. However, there are some devastating points in her article that make her argument confusing and eventually weaken her article.
Pathos
A reader can clearly notice that the time of the publication of the article can be conspicuously seen as a persuasive appeal of pathos. The Women 's Rights Movement, particularly in France, was on fire at that time and women were looking for a female leader to guide them out of male domination and oppression. In the 1970s, a group of French theorists, such as Helene Cixous and Luce Irigaray, started arguing that writing is a …show more content…
She explains the masculine motive behind those unpleasant depictions of women, which is to keep men on hold of political and social caliber. Women were reduced by men to mere "servants" not being able to fight back; However, Cixous persuades woman to " kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing" (89). Cixous tells women that they are able to write their own stories and make those stories heard in their own voice.
Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth. Our naphtha will spread, throughout the world, without dollars – black or gold – nonassessed values that will change the rules of the old
Dr. Jason DePolo
ENGL 755.001
30 March 2016
What is the Medusa?
Introduction
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality; a great deal of women have been taught this saying and they feel it is deeply true. Helene Cixous, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, apparently agrees with the aforementioned saying by the time she wrote The Laugh of the Medusa. Cixous commences by constructing her credibility with being one of the female pioneers of feminism and also stating historical facts, and effectively using rhetorical features. However, there are some devastating points in her article that make her argument confusing and eventually weaken her article.
Pathos
A reader can clearly notice that the time of the publication of the article can be conspicuously seen as a persuasive appeal of pathos. The Women 's Rights Movement, particularly in France, was on fire at that time and women were looking for a female leader to guide them out of male domination and oppression. In the 1970s, a group of French theorists, such as Helene Cixous and Luce Irigaray, started arguing that writing is a …show more content…
She explains the masculine motive behind those unpleasant depictions of women, which is to keep men on hold of political and social caliber. Women were reduced by men to mere "servants" not being able to fight back; However, Cixous persuades woman to " kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing" (89). Cixous tells women that they are able to write their own stories and make those stories heard in their own voice.
Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth. Our naphtha will spread, throughout the world, without dollars – black or gold – nonassessed values that will change the rules of the old