Piercy conceives this social satire as her proposition of a better social environment for women and a challenge to the operative, mainstream ideas dominating second-wave feminism (Sümbül).
When Connie was transported through her mind to a new place with the help of Luciente the first thing she saw was a river. "Little no account buildings, strange structures like long-legged birds, a few large terracotta and yellow buildings irregular buildings, no skyscrapers, no spaceports, and no traffic jam in the sky" (Piercy, 60). Connie saw a place that looked like villages and did not have big cities because Luciente said that big cities did not work. Connie also saw bicycles and people on foot. There were intensive plots of vegetables, plants and animals. Mattapoisett seems an environmentally friendly place: That's why Luciente considered being peasants because they lived in a village. They raised chickens, ducks, goats, turkeys and cows. The people from Mattapoisett dedicated themselves to taking care of the environment. Mattapoisett is not like the city where Connie lived which was a place full of noisy with big and tall buildings. The technology was very important in Connie's culture. That is why Connie said that "it is not how I imagine". Connie was hoping to see a very advanced society in the area of technology. In Mattapoisett at first it appears to be a backward and non-technological society, but then it was clear that the people had a positive attitude toward machinery. The differences between those two worlds reflect a commonly felt ambiguity about technology's value in contemporary life: the ability to eliminate the inequalities caused by poverty, racism, and sexism and the potential to crush individuality, enforce stereotypical gender roles, and encourage violence (Farr).
In Mattapoisett, we do not see any starving people, "But no one lacks here", (Piercy, 240) the society of Mattapoisett shares their jobs and everything with one another in the community.
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Marge Piercy had a specific idea in mind when she wrote the poem entitled, "What's That Smell in the Kitchen?" The purpose Marge Piercy had for writing this poem was to express her opinion about feminist rights. Marge Piercy used metaphors and symbolism to maximize the effectiveness of her work. By using these techniques in combination with each other, Piercy successfully gets her message across that women detest the idea of being oppressed and are trying to escape it. ... Symbolism is a key technique that Piercy uses as she illustrates the idea that women despise not having equal ri...
Time to Break The Mold Society has put a mold on how the typical female should look, behave, and think. ... Marge Piercy is a poet and author who writes mainly from a feminist point of view. ... Piercy shows how women who are not strong enough to fight publicly somehow fight back in their own subdued way. ... Piercy did not fit the image of what women were supposed to be ("edwardsly"). ... Piercy shows how girls turning into young women think and how they act. ...
In Marge Piercy's poem Barbie Doll, Piercy examines the struggle of the girl child who tries to conform to society's preordained standard of beauty. ... Piercy carefully constructs the idea of a girl child establishing that this girl could be anyone. ... Rather than choosing the toys she gets to play with, girl child is, "presented dolls that did pee-pee / and miniature GE stoves and irons." (2-3 pg. 814)The comedy in this quote more deeply addresses that these toys are created for girls by a society that is trying to mold women into housewives; who nurture children, cook and clean. ...
The poem "Barbie Doll", written by Marge Piercy, describes the life of a female, with physical features outside the measurements that society deems attractive. ... The next stage of a female's life brought up in the poem is puberty; this stage is introduced by Piercy near the birth, adding an element of youth to the age. ... The lack of acceptance in our society for less attractive women leaves the female of the poem in a hard place, that common role that society has left open for women is not one that she fits into. Piercy then begins to describe the young female's attributes, "...
The poem "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy and "The Leap" by James Dickey have similar views, although the styles are different, it is supported by the narration of the tones and the development of the themes. ... The narrator defines the impressions with dramatic turns of both women at a young age, which later ends tragically for both girls. The narrator talks about the child in the poem as the girl-child (Piercy) who plays with her "doll that did pee-pee, miniature stoves and cherry colored lipstick" (Piercy) as she applies the color to her lips. However, the narrator in "The Leap" feels mo...
Three literary works from the death unit that illustrate the conflict that many women encounter are "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy, "No Name Woman" by Maxine Hong Kingston and "The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window" by Joy Harjo. ... In the poem "Barbie Doll," written by Marge Piercy, evidence shows this idea in the poet's use of irony, her attitude on the subjects of both inner and outer beauty, and her attitude on the significance of words interfering with a woman's self-confidence. Piercy employs the stylistic device of irony throughout her poem. ... When the time ca...
The largest group who plays a role in this is women between the ages of 19-50 (bringoutyourbest). All of these women who contribute to these surgerys are helping to increase in the growing rate of body altering procedures performed in America. ... Although the group that most people tend to focus on is women it is well documented that a growing number of men are also using plastic surgery. ... Marge Piercy used some very symbolic writing in this poem with lines such as, "in the casket displayed on satin she lay". In other words Piercy was comparing the coffin to an actual box, very similar...
Magazines that are desiged for women, show women that are exstreamly thin and beautiful. The latest styles and clothing are advertised in womens magazines. According to Marge Piercy in her Barbie Doll poem," wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy"(338). Piercy is referring to the dolls females are given as children and how they have a certain lipstick that seems to portray what the child is supposed to look like as she grows up. ... The women in the story would like her needs to be met. ...
