María Luisa Bombal, The Shrouded Woman——Week4

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 This week I read The Shrouded Woman. The article begins with the perspective of a woman after her death. The narrator himself observes different reactions of people around her after her death and recalls the memories of her life. This part is composed. This kind of perspective of keeping one's acquaintances in the corpse is exciting, watching their attitude towards their own death, recalling their characters and making comments on the whole, giving people a sense of sobriety and rationality, as we all know, only we are not involved events, we can make an objective evaluation of them. And the death of the protagonist just happened to put her in this state.

Nothing can highlight the existence of consciousness itself more than consciousness after death. In the beginning, when the protagonist observes the environment with ideology, he is pulled away from reality. He becomes a bystander to himself, and when she begins to recall consciousness, It is like being re-immersed in the environment at that time. When the protagonist recalls her experience of falling in love, we can read the excitement, enthusiasm and shyness of the protagonist and the depression, sadness and depression when she is lost in love. However, although I can feel the protagonist's emotions, the process and details of the birth of these emotions are still very abrupt, as if the protagonist suddenly fell in love. And then this relationship ended so quickly, and the protagonist received a lot of damage; she kept going back and forth in pain and relief and vividly reflected the anxiety and anxiety in love. At the same time, the scenery and weather in the memories also change and show different atmospheres according to her mood, which complements the protagonist's feelings.

When reading this week's article, I feel that the author's description of feelings is more intense than the two previous works. When reading the author's recollections, there is a feeling of reading ordinary novels. She shows the story's development and the psychological and behavioural states of the different protagonists in it. And when she shows these stories, I feel that her self-consciousness is very weak, and she doesn't make it clear that the thinking of the characters in the story is her thinking.

So the question I want to ask this week is: Is the intensity of The Shrouded Woman's emotional expression somewhat more robust or weaker than the text in our previous course assignments?


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  1. Simonlsw2022年1月28日 22:17

    Hi there, great blog post! For the question you asked, I believe the emotional expression of The Shrouded Woman relies more on Ana Maria's narration after her death, and the Paris Peasant conveys emotions more through detailed descriptions of the environment. I also think Ana Maria's observation of people around her after her death is a supernatural but exciting experience. Personally, I would like to have the same ability she has after my death, lol.

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  2. Marie Alemi2022年3月1日 10:45

    Hi ! I really enjoyed reading your blog post. I think that Anna Maria's narration being different from what readers are typically used to, makes it interesting and engaging. It creates and maintains 'closeness' between the reader and Ana Maria. Personally, this makes her emotional expression a lot more intensified. When do we ever get a chance to be in the mind of a dead person. Whatever is shared, we cling onto because it's the most we're going to get. Sometimes detailed descriptions that go on for pages and pages, don't add anything to the context or plot. It can come across as filler! I don't like filler :")) like get to the point PLEASE AHA. Thanks for sharing!

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