{"id":343,"date":"2017-10-12T02:05:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T08:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dight215.picklespapillons.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2017-10-12T02:05:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T08:05:43","slug":"standing-female-runs-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/student-posts\/standing-female-runs-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing Female-*runs away*"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love it when concepts currently studied in another class begin to make reappearances in others.\u00a0 Recently, in one of my english classes we studied a fairy tale spin-off of Beauty and the Beast\u00a0<\/em>titled\u00a0The Tiger’s Bride<\/em> by Angela Carter.\u00a0 It follows similar suite to\u00a0Beauty and the Beast<\/em>.\u00a0 A young woman is lost in a gambling match by her stupid father to “The Beast,” a figure that wears a mask and is completely covered by various articles of clothing.\u00a0 She is taken to the Beast’s palazzo and while standing before the Beast, the butler translates on his master’s behalf, telling her she may go free and return to her father with many riches if she will disrobe herself once in front of the Beast and allow him to see her completely nude. Gross. Yes, your skin does crawl.<\/p>\n

She refuses and instead shames the Beast resulting in him shedding a single tear.\u00a0 Later on she refuses him again causing him to shed another.\u00a0 After that he tries a new tactic and takes her hunting with him and his butler out in the countryside.\u00a0 The butler tells the young woman that because she won’t disrobe in front of him, she must watch as he disrobes in front of her (hang in there guys, I promise this isn’t as terrifying or disgusting as it sounds).\u00a0 The Beast does so in a manner of extreme consciousness and embarrassment.\u00a0 Underneath that mask and all that clothing however is a tiger.\u00a0 The young woman is completely moved by this.\u00a0 Afterwards she goes to the tiger and disrobes in front of him.\u00a0 The tiger is afraid of her at first but after seeing she means him no harm begins to purr and the young woman’s skin is pulled off to reveal that underneath is a tiger.<\/p>\n

I’ll go out on a limb here and claim that nudity is not something we are comfortable discussing.\u00a0 And for good reason too, I don’t think this apprehension can be harshly criticized.\u00a0 Trying to talk about it is like trying to swim through shark-infested waters.\u00a0 Heck, our origin story shows us hiding out of shame and covering ourselves with fig leaves.\u00a0 This isn’t a bad thing.<\/p>\n

That being said, the poem the book is titled after “Standing Female Nude” asks a lot of interesting questions.\u00a0 Underneath our clothing and accessories, it’s just\u00a0us<\/em>.\u00a0 Yes underneath the skin is the muscles, tissues, and cells, but without diving in and just by looking at the whole, it is us completely exposed; nowhere left to hide or mask ourselves.\u00a0 This concept is incredibly personal on a large scale.\u00a0 Just look at how the female narrator uses language in the poem to show possession over herself.<\/p>\n

-he drains colour from\u00a0me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

-I\u00a0<\/strong>shall be represented analytically and hung in great museums.<\/p>\n

-I can see the Queen of England gazing on\u00a0my\u00a0<\/strong>shape.<\/p>\n

-He possesses\u00a0me\u00a0<\/strong>on canvas as he dips the brush repeatedly into the paint.<\/p>\n

This tone keeps up all the way until the very end when she looks at the painting and finally distances herself from the image.<\/p>\n

–It\u00a0<\/strong>doesn’t look like\u00a0me<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This poem fascinated me.\u00a0 Probably because it was one of the easier ones to understand; it’s pretty straightforward.\u00a0 It also illustrates the highly personal relationship with one’s own skin.\u00a0 I sense pain and disappointment coming from the female nude as she realizes that painting, even after studying her for hours, failed to capture her essence.\u00a0 It doesn’t show her for what she truly is.\u00a0 It misrepresented her, even if a true representation was never the artist’s goal.\u00a0 That adds a whole new level of coldness to the situation.\u00a0 While I’m not entirely comfortable discussing nudity I think this concept of exposing true self is very interesting.\u00a0 The tiger wasn’t being gross in the\u00a0Tiger’s Bride<\/em>, he wanted to see the young woman for what she truly is.\u00a0 Once he goes through the pain and embarrassment of showing her who he truly is does she return the favor.<\/p>\n

\"Related<\/p>\n

Image by Joanna Barnum on DeviantART<\/p>\n

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I love it when concepts currently studied in another class begin to make reappearances in others.  Recently, in one of my english classes we studied a fairy tale spin-off of Beauty and the Beast titled The Tiger’s Bride by Angela Carter.  It follows similar suite to Beauty and the Beast.  A young woman is lost in a gambling… Read More Standing Female-*runs away*<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9aQyB-5x","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}