{"id":46,"date":"2022-01-31T21:08:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T04:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rmst\/?p=46"},"modified":"2022-01-31T21:08:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T04:08:50","slug":"blog4-a-dead-woman-existing-in-the-4d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rmst\/2022\/01\/31\/blog4-a-dead-woman-existing-in-the-4d\/","title":{"rendered":"blog#4 – a Dead Woman existing in the 4D"},"content":{"rendered":"

blog#4 – a Dead Woman existing in the 4D<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Life is a crueler fate than Death.<\/p>\n

That’s the thought that rattled in my head for the entire reading of Bombal’s ‘<\/em>The Shrouded Woman’<\/em>. Though many other attributes of the story become abundantly clear, the atmosphere of Death and Envy was subtle, yet, overwhelming. The addition of Death’s overlapping presence in Ana Mar\u00eda’s story and existence, I think, put things in an entirely different light. Unlike the other few readings and texts done for this class, this story had an ‘end’ clearly defined in the beginning, (i.e. Ana Mar\u00eda’s death and subsequent funeral). I feel that the inclusion and importance of what the narrator cares to tell, carries a different weight now that we\u00a0know<\/span> she is dead.<\/p>\n

They say hindsight is 20\/20, but I think Bombal would argue that Death provides more clarity than hindsight.<\/p>\n

This post-mortem perspective of love, is perhaps the most truthful and authentic description of love. The kind of in-between categories of love are the parts of this book that really stuck with me. The adolescent love between Ricardo and Ana Mar\u00eda, childish, grown from an era of teasing and tyranny – the kind of passion that only youth can burn. The ‘Humiliating Love’ she and Fernando begrudgingly share, one built from a shaky foundation of guilt, and absorbed into necessity. The envious, entangled love between a Mother and Daughter (Anita). The Mother, that looks at her daughter as a second-chance for her own wonderings of “what-if’s”, instilling past promises into the husk of new life. Or, the inverse: the indignant, independent Daughter, whose dying wish is to rebel against what she think Life has planned for her – a stubbornness derived from her Mother.<\/p>\n

It’s also interesting to think of each character’s relation to Ana Mar\u00eda. With each character, I think each one reflects Ana Mar\u00eda, something of their traits or attributes can be gleaned into something Ana Mar\u00eda doesn’t have; or, rather that a specific character shares a similar vice that she hates about herself. My question is this: do you think Ana Mar\u00eda’s character regrets anything? What was her biggest regret? Personally, I think the two strongest arguments of Envy and Admiration can be drawn between Ana Mar\u00eda’s relationships with both Maria Griselda and Anita.<\/p>\n

Maria Griselda’s character is (arguably) the most interesting character in the book. She is, by definition and by (fictional) birth, the\u00a0manic pixie dream girl<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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