Jan 23, 2009 00:51
WAIT. IS THE LITTLE MERMAID A DIALOG ABOUT THE ONSET FEMINISM?????????
PART OF 'THAT' WORLD. 'THAT' / 'YOUR' MEANING HIS. BECAUSE SHE WANTS TO FIND HER MAN'S WORLD, RIGHT?
THERE IS A WALL, A SEPARATION DESCRIBED BY THE MEDIUM, THE WATER VS AIR. WATER BRINGS LIFE. BUT ON THE SURFACE OF THE WATER, YOU CAN SEE THE STARS. THIS CLEARLY REPRESENTS RATIONALITY.
BUT I DO DECLARE: THE LITTLE MERMAID'S LAMENT, HER NEED TO BE MORE THAN THEE WHO DOTH POSSESS MANY PLACE-HOLDERS, IS NOTHING MORE BUT QUESTIONING THE NATURE OF YOUR CAPLITALIST/CONSOMPTUIOUS EXESITENCE.
Yet, Ariel still wants "answers" which implies authority. She wants to know "what is fire," which is a sense of magic. She wants to know what's behind it, but applying authority to "someone."
Therefore, I would suppose the "The Sea" represents a cloudy, para-physical sense of exsistence, that isn't "grounded." This is the lament of rich people who have nothing to live for. Bad vocabulary, an acknowledged lack of vocabulary, a sense of alienation. She wants to tread the sand, which is the boarder between water (feminity) and masuclinity (concrete land). She wants to participate as a non-dormant model. Is she seeking academia perhaps? Think turn of the 20c psychology. One woman admitted, even though she was clearly subjectable to those feminite fits.
I think we can conclude that she is observing gender boundries, finds them false, yet her colleuges view them as an assumption, and so do enemies defined by her peers, which happen to be very similar. Romeo and Juliet? A wall devides, and it is concrete, while air has humidity and water has oxygen.
Regardless, Ariel is clearly a feminist and challenges _both_ sides of the hegemony. Hott.