Calliope's Power In My Love, She Gave Me

As a result, his “prose style” improves once he got Calliope in his power, but Madoc does not realize that the price of his fleeting success is not only Calliope’s suffering, but also his own future. Erasmus Fry’s crazed appearance from the opening pages of the story should be an example for him and the warning that following Fry’s way would lead him to madness. However, careless Madoc does not pay any attention to this sign.

The idea of appropriation is the central part of the representation of rape. The relationship between rapist and victim represents rape as “a violator who appropriates the victim’s subjectivity as an extension of his own power” (Tanner, p. 3). Such act of appropriation is shown in Calliope’s case through stealing her

Madoc achieves success in literary society by assigning Calliope’s writing power. Moreover, the narrative depicts the party for his new novel “My Love, She Gave Me Light”. The title of book represents the romantic story, however is ironical that through the idea of Calliope’s rape, “my love” refers to “my victim” from whom Madoc stole the freedom. Furthermore, on the top panel of page 12, Gaiman depicts the crowd of people (who are not even colored), highlighting the dialogue between Madoc and his female fan. She states that she liked the way in which Aileen was represented as strong woman, on which Madoc requests that he does “regard himself as a feminist writer”. This phrase is an apogee of his hypocrisy and egotism - in order to build such strong female characters in his writing Madoc rapes and abuses the woman in

He supports Calliope’s liberation and refers to her not as to somebody’s possession and tool, but as a person. Also, from his speech to Madoc, we understand that Morpheus, who used to be cold and indifferent to others, now shows his cares and sympathy after experiencing imprisonment. Through the idea of this sympathy, Morpheus diverges from a patriarchal model of masculinity. Comparing with Madoc and Fry, who are pictured like two beasts, exploiting her on the animal level, Morpheus shows the genuine way of treating women. Moreover, the depiction non-hegemonic masculinity, such as the one Gaiman shows through Morpheus’ character, is a significant contribution to readers’ image of masculinity, replacing the hegemonic violence and oppression. Furthermore, comparing with other superheroes, Gaiman portraits Morpheus not in the typical way main masculine hero shown in DC comics; he is thin, not muscular and pale, but persistent and