Feminism - Ideological Criticism

The picture of a woman in man's work clothes and the traditional stay at home handkerchief on her head.

The original poster this is based off of was first used in WWII. This poster was used to promote traditional stay at home women to get fill in for jobs at home the men had left. It portrays a "traditional woman" at that point with the exception of her wearing mans work clothes.




 I am going to look at this cover of TIME magazine through the lens of feminism.


My claim is this picture is stating Modern Women are a Strong Force for Change in The USA

The reasons I see are as the following:

The earbud in her ear: Signifies the younger generation or the modern woman

The Tattoo: signifies the nontraditional woman. VERY few advertisments show women with tattoos. It isn't necessarily a feminine tattoo either. The symbol of her following her own heart.

The Shirt: Emphasizing feminism in the workplace. She is no longer wearing mans work clothes. She is wearing her own and she won't need to give the position up when a man comes to take it.

The hat: independence and non-confinement. No longer is she wearing the stay and home handkerchief but a trendy hat. It carries just enough color so we can make a mental link to the other picture but no longer does it signify the traditional woman's roles, but it emphasizes her feminism.

Justification for Narrative Criticism

Characteristics of the Narrative

At least two events, often causal, are happening.
The Snoodle is created, and the snoodle tries to solidify his identity.  

The narrative is temporal.
Chronology gives a temporal context, imperative to story-telling.
The Snoodle's desire to discover where he came from and what he was for.

The narrative is relational.
The Snoodle's decision to leave and the point he stops and listens to the big snoodle.

The narrative has a contextual unity.
The exchanges between the Little Snoodle and the older Snoodles and the exchange between the Little Snoodle and the Giant Snoodle.

Object of the narrative:
To instill the truth of the Christian culture that value comes from God and we can find self actualization and healing from negative experiences by seeing ourselves how God sees us.


SETTING
Location: held in Snoodleberg, Galoots.A made up place that sounds great to a kid, but without any true description.

Music: Lots of Brass instruments for a "Bright" sound.

Color: very pastel, relaxing colors. creating a peaceful spiritual tone.

 CHARACTERS
Little Snoodle: represents the viewer. The fact that he is insecure and feels out of place (5:12) makes him very relate able, especially for people who have experienced some form of  abuse (no matter how mild) in their lives. His being very young and impressionable generally invokes a protective, pitying emotion.

Big Snoodle: Represents God. Says things that God would tell someone struggling with identity issues (for whatever reason).

Other snoodles: Instilled Negative or worldly thoughts about the snoodle into his head. People or experiences that drag you down.

NARRATOR
Tone: Rhyming and making up words (like 3:37 "Coolish") is a reference to Dr. Seuss. An author who wrote modern, fun readers for children. This is to relate to a younger age group of kids, as well as the young adult generation who grew up with the original Dr. Seuss books.

EVENTS
(0:01-8:05) Little snoodle is created, given nothing but negative thoughts about himself from others until he runs away to the top of a distant mountain.

(8:06) The little snoodle had taken what the snoodles said right after he was created and latched onto it. He wouldn't hear any other perspective. This is very true for a lot of teens/young adults.

(8:46-9:-05) Everyone needs someone who can see them for their potential. Whether it is a friend, mentor, parent, or even an enemy there comes a point in most people's lives where they need someone outside them to question what they believe about themselves and what others have told them. 

(10:03-10:13). Often people who have been in rough situations are afraid to believe that there is power and good inside them. It is scary.

(10:13-11:00) Everyone needs to come to terms with how God sees them and what God's view is for their lives. This gives them the power to "Fly".

(11:30-12:18) When this happens those people can pull out old dreams, fly and help others.

(12:18-13:19) Often people who are changing negative thinking patterns need continued reinforcement.

TEMPORAL RELATIONS
Speed: The event's take place over a day or two. However they are told in 13 minutes. It was shortened so we could see the effects of the story.

CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS

The series of events in this story are overseen by the “giant Snoodle at the top of the hill”. They are natural. Most of the emphasis is put in the effect of what happens.

AUDIENCE

Target Audience: Children of religious parents.

THEME

If we focus on who God sees then what anyone else says doesn't matter.

TYPE OF NARRATIVE

This is a Romance. The little snoodle has to fight an enemy (the negative views of himself) and comes away victorious and enlightened (with a positive view of himself and able to fly).

Narrative Criticism artifact...Justification coming soon

This is my Narrative Criticism....justification forthcoming.

MADNESS - Metaphorical Criticism

I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals. But during attacks it is terrible — and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to the work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.

Vincent Van Gogh

There are two main metaphors. The first Van Gogh comparing his moments of creative inspiration to madness and the second him comparing his attitude while painting to a miner. 

In the first metaphor the vehicle is madness and the tenor is artistic inspiration. This speaks to me, and I believe many artists. Though I do not paint I have experienced this "madness" from time to time in my writing and the different aspects of my theatre art. Situations where nothing else is as important as your thought, idea, or creation. You shut everything else out. 

This leads to the second metaphor where he has set vehicle as "the work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste". Being an artist is hardly a life or death experience however Van Gogh captures the tenor of the earnestness and extreme emotion involved in this kind of artistic inspiration.

Though not all artistic creation happens in this kind of artistic inspiration, Van Gogh perfectly captures this type of madness.

The Structure sets it up for a perfect "Method to madness" that rings true with me as with many other artists.

Changing the world through logic and Credentials - Neo-Aristotelian

I chose this for two reasons. First, because he is a really young intelligent kid. I was also an extremely young college graduate and his opinion that kids can change the world appealed to me. Second, I noticed the lack of Pathos. Pathos is something I rely heavily on when I speak. However, I did not feel like it undermined his speech in the least.

Claim: The rhetor delivered an effective speech without the use of pathos.

Evidence:  
Invention

• Pathos - Extremely lacking. However, I do not find that his lack of pathos affected his overall speech.
• Logos - He shares his Knowledge about Physics (1:29) and proves he knows what he is talking about.
• Ethos - He acknowledges up front a 17 year old Nuclear Physicist is probably not going to have a lot of credit initially with anyone. However, then he talks about his inventions and the people he has worked with (Pres. Obama) and adds a lot of Creditability to himself.

Organization

• Chronological - He talked about his career Chronologically from his first invention to his work with Homeland security. He uses this as a basis of his standing that "Kids can change the world."

Style

• Paralinguistics - This could have used a lot of work. He didn't wait for audience reaction and his pronunciation could have been greatly improved. He is a Physicist and not normally and orator so this is expected.

Delivery

• Charisma - This was somewhat lacking which is what leads me to the conclusion that the rhetor did not effectively use pathos in his speech. This is shown by how often he used the word "Uh". He also used appeals to Logos (in depth descriptions about how nuclear fusion works) and Ethos (His professional appearance, descriptions of his inventions, mentioning he has met with the president, and stating the fact that his work is currently being used at a University.)
• Competency - From the beginning he show his competency by not only describing the nuclear processes but by  explaining them in simple terms.

Memory

This speech was extemporaneous. He memorized basics and then delivered it from memory. This added to his ethos supporting that he was not just a kid who memorized facts, he was a physicist who knew what he was talking about.