‘Our enemies are to be found abroad
and at home. Let us never forget this.’
Plath
Challenging of traditional binaries that were enforced by a restrictive binaries
Civil rights
Religious fundementalism
Feminist movements
The Applicant
Objectification of women
Appeals to the consumerist advertising
"How about this suit ?"
Aesthetically orientated
Black and stiff but not a bad fit
Symbolic of the confinement of marrige
Morning Song
Homonym of title
Mourning
Emptiness: The . . surrounding the New statue exemplifies the loneliness and bare distant nature of
the statue/ baby - punctuation mirrors subject
The enemy resides within
The Bee Box
Shift in tone - resembles her loss of power
The bees resemble the inner deamons
Plaths Death
Isuguro
Ono's distrust of the new Japan
Ono draws our attention to the contrast between the once “narrow little street… crowded with
people and the cloth banners” and the “wide concrete road” it has been replaced with. For our
narrator, Japan has been stripped of its intimacy and humanity.
Isuguros own context
Daughters
American operations in Japan
3 steps
Punish
Rebuild $
Sustain
Onos inability to reflect upon is own actions
Tone of the novel
Howard : Decurous and reserved
Experimentation of cowardice
“the glass-fronted building where Mrs Kawakami’s used to be.”
Vonnegut
The restriction of the binaries doesn't cleanly fit over everyone
Vonneguts contextual identity
Lawrence: Spiritual medicine man
The depiction of the German soilders
Billies Death
Our enemy is consumerism
Disables out identity from folourishing
Carter
Recognises the disunity
Recognises his own fault
Use of alternate voices
Ironically dismantles the Presidents capibility
Only though this are we able to accept what he is
saying
Establishes the need to become unified
Detente
Enemys from afar can never become friends
High modality
“especially” “clear” “it is” “as you know” “essential”
The notion of the crisis of confidence
Beckett
Everywhere is subject to the same excential crisis
Unprescribed setting
laconic landscape
Schineder: state of mind not a play
deracinated characters reflects the global displacement caused by the bomb