De Beauvoir

 I actually liked the piece done by Simone de Beauvoir.  I thought it
would be another look at women and how they need to stand up, fight, be
the woman.  In a way it still was, but through her own musings and
questions we are forced to look deeper.  My favorite part really is her
writing because of the intense imagery that relays meaning.
“Woman has ovaries, a uterus: these peculiarities imprison her in her
subjectivity, circumscribe her within the limits of her own nature.”
 This image here gives off the idea that a woman, in being a woman,
imprisons herself.  A common sign of a woman is the womb.  Thus the
image here is that a woman is imprisoned within her womb, within her
womanhood.
“In actuality the relation of the two sexes is not quite like that of
two electrical poles, for man represents both the positive and the
neutral, as is indicated by the common use of man to designate human
beings in general; whereas woman represents only the negative, defined
by limiting criteria, without reciprocity”
 I love this image because the idea of the positive and the negative and
the neutral brings in the idea of opposites as well.  She relates this
to magnets in a way, men being positive and woman being negative.  Yet
when the two are combined and joined, then neutral state is still known
as positive or male.  Even in a good and bad sense, men are positive,
good; women, negative and evil.
 So through her use of imagery, we find that the woman is trapped by her
own nature in the males eyes.  Because the males are the ones in power
and therefore decide what means what.