Short Stories:

          The way people view the media scape, meaning what media people choose to watch or read. If one does not own cable, a TV or find television mundane will not know that culture. This is the same for many mediums, such as comics, books, movies, and more. Freud worked to try to figure out the minds of humans. He has dissected the mind separating it into parts, like the ID, which is the animal instincts, the super ego, the social conscience, and the ego, the balance of the two (rationality). Jung believed that there was a collective unconscious, which is a collective biological thought that all humans possess. All of these form the psychoanalytic tower. Then there’s the feminist critique, which is taking apart a work and seeing how much is given to female characters. Is the work about a woman or a man, who has the most lines, who is the story really about?

          In the film, Marie Antoinette, her sole job is to get pregnant and have a child. It is really the guy’s fault, but due to social behavior she is blamed. She is just a teen and he is such a cold fish that it is extremely awkward, and the court is wearing her out. The movie is mainly about her as a contemporary figure, finding liberation is such a structured society. She is basically a prisoner of France, she is unable to obtain psychological freedom, and at this time the idea of freedom is becoming a thing for people for the French Revolution happens a few years later. Marie is an interesting figure, for she has been criticized throughout history for causing the French Revolution, and Sofia wanted to show what her life was like. Her class blinded her from the problems the people of France were facing and she was an easy one to blame for the revolution, where in reality she was a very small part of the problem. Her only job, the only reason she was in France was to bare an heir.

          Overall the themes of the short stories had to do with women and how there life is affected due to their surrounding.  Story of an hour is about a woman who is happy he dead because her husband but dies in the end anyway and Even the Queen no longer control her is about menstruation. Women wrote all the works, and many of the works could not and would not have been written by men. Girl gives a different sense of values and double standards that are imposed upon a woman. The author adapted her mothers voice into the narrator of the story, it is not the authors voice and can be seen as her rebelling against what her mother and many others believe how women should act. The most interesting story to me was Where are you Going; Where have you Been. I feel that this story is about an innocent girl becoming an adult through traumatic and victimizing means. She became so messed up by the end of the story that she could not recognize her home and ended up giving herself up to Arnold Friend and basically being forced into adulthood.