Essays about: "Olivia Signe Afrodite Gränglid"

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  1. 1. Misogyny in the Marshlands : female Characterization in Seamus Heaney’s “Bog Queen” and “Punishment”

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för lärarutbildning

    Author : Olivia Signe Afrodite Gränglid; [2021]
    Keywords : The Male Gaze; Stereotypical Characterization; Sexual Objectification; Ecofeminism; Seamus Heaney; Bog-poems;

    Abstract : This essay argues that the depiction of women in Seamus Heaney’s poems “Bog Queen” and “Punishment” results from the male gaze in three ways: the narrative viewpoint, stereotypical characterization, and the objectification of the female body. The following essay analyses the poems through an ecofeminist perspective that enables examination of the female characters as personifications of nature – “Bog Queen” as Mother Earth and the victim of “Punishment” as Nerthus, the fertility goddess. READ MORE