From the Antique Flashcards
1
Q
Emptiness of the speaker as a woman in society
A
‘Weary life’
‘Doubly blank’
‘Would wake and weary and fall asleep’
2
Q
The speakers desire to escape (be a man)
A
‘I wish and i wish i were a man’
3
Q
The speakers desire to escape (not exist)
A
‘Or better than any being were not’
‘Not a body’
‘not a soul’
‘not so much as a grain of dust or a drop of water’
4
Q
Feeling of insigificane in society - her absence would not be noticed
A
‘Still the world would wag on the same’
‘Still the seasons go and come’
‘None would miss me in all the world’
5
Q
quote about women in this society
A
Simone de Beauvoir
‘In a patriarchal culture woman inevitably experiences herself as object and other’
