not much to say here. but we finished the speech today.
today's section, we basically read about more examples of women characters, this time how they are bad and either murderers or seducers. there was a lot of talk about sex. about adultery, trading military secrets for sex, and "using men as ambulatory bank-accounts" and the many times that people have tried to have these books banned.
but as we discussed last week, having something secret, makes people more curious about it.
atwood concluded the speech with a few aphorisms (sayings) such as:
- life is short
- art is long
- motives are complex
- human nature is endlessly fascinating
those were the 4. notice the last one about human nature is the longest and most well-worded there, making it all the more interesting.
she talked about for whoever reads this, what lies beyond the door that is begging to be unlocked? for men it might be their anima (noone in the class knew what that was excpet me, i dont know if i should be proud of that) and for women it might be their shadow.
everyone has "subterrranean depths", everyone has something underneath, their mind or whatever.
evil women exist in real life so they should exist in literature.
she even quotes an old feminist from 1912, dame rebecca west: "ladies of great britain... we have not enough evil in us"
then atwood says "note where she locates the desired evil. in us"
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