This week’s book got my attention from the very beginning and the end of the novel really took me by surprise. I overall really like this week’s novel as it has some very interesting themes that stood out to me. I would also like to point out that although it was a very short read, it took me a while to actually finish it. Certain aspects were a lot to take in, it would be difficult for me not to feel extremely drained after a couple of pages and I had to do something else.<\/p>\n
To begin this blogpost I would like to talk about the main character, Macab\u00e9a. She is a woman who we can tell is very disconnected from reality, which at some point it even gets frustrating how badly her ignorance gets to be. Nevertheless, I was never able to blame her for her ignorance, as she is a woman that lives a hard life, and this “delusion” or ignorance portrayed throughout the novel is what makes her one of the most genuine characters. We often tend to have difficult parts of our life and (at least me) grasping onto an idea, a hope or a future that may seem out of touch of reality is what keeps us going. Her character is tragic in a sense that she does not understand the circumstances she lives in, the despair that we feel for her is nowhere near Macab\u00e9a’s heart or mind, which takes away our hope that she might set herself free from this ignorance.<\/p>\n
An important thing I want to note from this novel is the concept of the man. For starters, Clarice Lispector decides that the narrator is a man, who will be in charge of Macab\u00e9a’s story. Why would she not want to be the narrator herself? Will there be a prejudice by the public if a woman were to portray such a heart-wrenching story of another woman? Is is more fair for a man to tell a sad story about a woman? I think there is something really interesting from the fact that Lispector decides to narrate this story from a man’s perspective. Another thing I would like to note is the constant image of a man in Macab\u00e9a’s story that will be what ultimately “saves” her. Either from her despair of wanting someone to love her, or to take her out of poverty and give her a life that she desires. Either by Ol\u00edmpico who would have “saved” her from never being loved by anyone or by the foreigner that would “save” her from poverty, it was always the man that was going to save Macab\u00e9a.<\/p>\n
My question for this week is: What do you think about this? Did you find another instance where there was another savior other than men? Also feel free to answer some of the other questions I wrote on the top if you want to !!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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