"If I was a man-I would have a girlfriend with big tits." In her work "My most secret desire" (Drawn & Quarterly), Julie Doucet transports the readers into a universe of imagination and fantasy. Her comic is based on the erotic and sexual dreams she is having. As a feminist artist, she wants to highlights some sensitive contemporary issues such as gender roles or sexual harassments. In another hand, she also shows the everyday dilemma of being a woman such as pregnancy or menstruation. Julie Doucet, if you never heard about her yet, is a French-Canadian cartoonist. She published small press and comics books mostly. She is well known for her autobiographical works including the brilliants Dirty Plotte and My New York Diary. Her primary goal …show more content…
Here is the message that Julie Doucet wants to share and we can all agree that she does her work really well. Not only the nature does not give women an easy job but men does not seem to help according to Doucet. She starts her comic straightforward as she is dreaming of waking up covered in blood and loosing some parts of her body. She uses exaggeration to show the insupportable menstruation week that women have to face every month. As well, she highlights the foolishness that brings the nine months of pregnancy. She dreams multiple times of giving birth to a cat but she seems to be satisfactory with her new born. By using sarcasm over again, she also wants to show that men do not help women to have a better place in our society. Indeed, she dreams once of being a man and harvesting a woman on the street; "I gotta a great pennies-the great mysteries of nature" while penetrating her.
Sexuality is omnipresent in the comic, highlighting the fact that women are often used as sexual objects. According to Doucet, the only thing that seem to interest man anyway, it themselves. In one of her story, while she is dreaming of being a man, she shows an abundant interesting in shaving. The protagonist is enjoying shaving and looking at himself in the mirror. He uses really funny mimics and finished by saying:
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The author uses the colors black and white reinforcing the dark side of the thematic. Interestingly, in the middle of the comic, she published a story in colors. Readers can get confused. In this story, Julie herself is having another dream. She is dreaming of being in a classroom in El Pasos, Texas. After thinking out loud, she suddenly leaves the school hungry and says "Why I am a working person! I'm making living I'm...I'm a professional cartoonist goddammit! I'm out of here! Surpringlsy, this story made out of colors is also the most realist and the most touching story of the book.
However, to contrast the melancholy of the black and white colors, Doucet uses a lot of details in each of her panels. A lot of human faces as well as a lot of object are exemplified all over the comic. She uses a lot of asymmetric shapes. It seems that she is referring to Picasso arts. In one of her story, Julie is dreaming of transforming into a man. During this stage of sexual transformation, some body parts and faces are all over. Some people are screaming looking at the sky. This panel definitely has a link with the famous Guernica (see picture
Going through this comic you find yourself looking at many innocent objects she uses to describe the way her house is set up. She refers to it as a museum. As we discover her dad sexual orientation, we find many of the objects resembles body parts. Other things like the painting of the
I have very good sight. One moment they were white, the next red, the next blue. Then I got it. They were a woman’s dresses”. At first, I did not pay attention to the colors of the dresses, but then I realized the pattern of colors in order. In this case, I believe white represents light, goodness, and pureness. The red represents anger, blood and possibly murder. The last but not least, the color blue that represents wisdom, loyalty, and truth. It seemed to me that the author used colors symbolizes the story from the beginning to the end. I believe it is a hint for us to what to expect and what not to since Jeffries was right all along the
Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, documents the author's discovery of her own and her father's homosexuality. The book touches upon many themes, including, but not limited to, the following: sexual orientation, family relationships, and suicide. Unlike most autobiographical works, Bechdel uses the comics graphic medium to tell her story. By close-reading or carefully analyzing pages fourteen through seventeen in Fun Home one can get a better understanding of how a Bechdel employs words and graphic devices to render specific events. One can also see how the specific content of the pages thematically connects to the book as a whole. As we will see, this portion of the book echoes the strained relationship between Bruce Bechdel and his family and his attempts to disguise his homosexuality by creating the image of an ideal family, themes which are prevalent throughout the rest of the nook.
In Alison Bechdel’s comic “Compulsory Reading”, she creates an image of how she feels about the world of creative writing. Bechdel mentions different authors and well known titles like “Beloved”, Romeo and Juliet”, and Charles Dickens. She also mentions her distaste to novels as well. Bechdel uses media and design, rhetorical patterns, and tone to communicate how she feels about literature.
Now I wished that I could pen a letter to my school to be read at the opening assembly that would tell them how wrong we had all been. You should see Zachary Taylor, I’d say.” Lily is realizing now that beauty comes in all colors. She is also again being exposed to the fact that her way of being raised was wrong, that years and years of history was false. “The whole time we worked, I marveled at how mixed up people got when it came to love.
In her graphic novel tragicomic, Fun Home, Alison Bechdel considers a broad range of subjects such as her and her father’s homosexuality, her parents’ often-volatile relationship, and the harsh reality that her fondest childhood memories may be a sham. On pages 82 and 83, Bechdel relays a scene that took place shortly after Bruce Bechdel’s funeral. Alison and her girlfriend, Joan, are relaxing at the Bechdel home when Helen offers Joan her choice of one book from Bruce’s prized library. Joan chooses a collection of Wallace Stevens’ poetry, which Helen reads and appears to have a deeper connection to. When Joan redacts her request, Helen insists that she take the book. This scene is microcosmically significant because it symbolizes Helen Bechdel’s
In Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel entitled Fun Home, the author expresses her life in a comical manner where she explains the relationship between her and her family, pointedly her father who acts as a father figure to the family as she undergoes her exhaustive search for sexuality. Furthermore, the story describes the relationship between a daughter and a father with inversed gender roles as sexuality is questioned. Throughout the novel, the author suggests that one’s identity is impacted by their environment because one’s true self is created through the ability of a person to distinguish reality from fictional despotism.
The film presents the stereotypical behavior of gay men that is evident in our society. Many of the costumes are designed to highlight the characters and the way they live. For example, Bernadette wears long flowing clothes usually white or an off cream. ‘She’ is an older ‘women’ and dresses to look like one with flowing skirts and tops with her hair done up simply.
In the graphic novel Fun Home, by Allison Bechdel, sexual self-discovery plays a critical role in the development of the main character, Allison Bechdel herself; furthermore, Bechdel depicts the plethora of factors that are pivotal in the shaping of who she is before, during and after her sexual self-development. Bechdel’s anguish and pain begins with all of her accounts that she encountered at home, with her respective family member – most importantly her father – at school, and the community she grew up within. Bechdel’s arduous process of her queer sexual self-development is throughout the novel as complex as her subjectivity itself. Main points highlight the difficulties behind which are all mostly focused on the dynamics between her and her father. Throughout the novel, she spotlights many accounts where she felt lost and ashamed of her coming out and having the proper courage to express this to her parents. Many events and factors contributed to this development that many seem to fear.
In Fun Home: A Family Tragic Comic, Alison Bechdel uses the graphic novel technique of bringing visuals and concise text to her audience to reveal the relationship with her father in a perspective that can not be modified through the readers perspective and interpretation. Bechdel employs this type of writing style to help visualize a better interpretation of how she describes the differences in both her and her fathers’ gender roles throughout the novel. This tactic helps discuss and show how these gender roles were depicted as opposite from one another. But, in this case being opposite from one another made them gain a stronger relationship of understanding and reviling that these differences were actually similarities they also shared.
Her husband rejects the idea of her having any social interaction and does not allow her to have contact with anyone other than himself and Jeanie. She attempts to write for entertainment but she becomes too tired and soon the only source of entertainment for the Narrator is the wallpaper. She begins to look for patterns to ease her
In chapter one, “Old Father, Old Artificer”, of her graphic novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, the young Bechdel generated her identity through the tensions and mysteries that engulfed her family the home. Masculinity, physical strength and a modern outlook were her personality traits as she grew, becoming the “Butch to [her father’s] Nelly” (269) and his opposite in several aspects. A conscious effort was made on her part to set her own pace from what her father expected of her. He was a strong, influential figure within her life. Expressing emotions towards her father was strictly not allowed in the home. Bechdel was left “rushing from the room in embarrassment” (273) on the one unforgettable occasion that she went to kiss him goodnight. She...
Imagery in literature brings a story to life for the reader. It draws the reader in and surrounds them with the environment of the narrative. The use of imagery will make the reader fully understand the circumstances under which the characters of a story live. In "The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator of the story often describes the wallpaper, each time giving more details. The vivid descriptions allow the reader into the psyche of the narrator, which illustrates her ever-deepening mental illness. The imagery presented in the wallpaper through the narrator's words show her descent into insanity coupled with her desire for independence.
Is Dorcas Dene an accurate depiction of a Victorian woman? Dorcas Dene, born Dorcas Lester, is a character created by George R. Sims. Sims was born in1847 and died in 1922, but during his lifetime he wrote two volumes of short stories called Dorcas Dene, Detective: Her Adventures (Greene 110). These short stories were Sims's most important work and were published between 1897 and 1998 (Greene 110). The short story focused on for the purposes of this analysis is "The Haverstock Hill Murder", which was featured in Detection by Gaslight.
It seems to be his style of painting, thick brush strokes. It is not simple, there is much to the painting, there is emotion in the painting. It is a stunning piece made by him.