Beautiful Flashcards
Themes
Beauty is power and curse
Female power
Male dominance
Female tragedy
Societal expectations
Women in history
Fame
Male gaze
Objectification
Male desire
Different types of beauty
Villainised female sexuality
Hypocrisy
Female body
Media
Timeless tales
Interchangeable
Unchanged female tragedy throughout history
Structure
Free verse
Internal and irregular rhyme - restless attention of media, irregularity prevents true connections between reader and character
Women recognised without name
Timeline order
Typicality and Context
Internal rhyme
Helen of Troy
Cleopatra
Marilyn Monroe
Princess Diana
Pop culture references
Christopher Marlowe ‘Dr Faustus’ - intertextuality - Atwood - bible
Shakespeare‘Twelfth Night’, ‘Antony and Cleopatra’, ‘Othello’
Madeleine Miller
Bible - Samson and Delilah
Bloody Chamber
Colloquial language
Atwood
Female tragedy
Villainised female sexuality
Society
Lack identity
Object of male use
