Scan barcode
A review by frederika_p
Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
2.0
My thoughts:
1. Since some people considered this book more liberal for its age in terms of the inclusion of suffrage and feminist movement, I thought that the theme will be delivered via the voices of various characters, narrative style and presentation of female experience. What I got was a semi-OK book that had few part in which one character presented her dissatisfaction with the current system of female oppression and opposition to the patriarchal hierarchical system. The rest was religious preaching, sexism, predominance of male voices and experiences and confusing shifts in characters' ideologies, values, opinions...
2. The episodic structure did not help at all. I do not remember the last time when I was so disconnected with the narrative and its characters.
3. Dan's repetitive vocalization of the assumption that morally flawed/bad man deserved to die - then him as a murderer deserving to live... I was utterly lost in his reasoning. Also the idea that a woman (or her image) is needed for a male salvation is problematic. Well, many discourses that were presented were highly problematic.
1. Since some people considered this book more liberal for its age in terms of the inclusion of suffrage and feminist movement, I thought that the theme will be delivered via the voices of various characters, narrative style and presentation of female experience. What I got was a semi-OK book that had few part in which one character presented her dissatisfaction with the current system of female oppression and opposition to the patriarchal hierarchical system. The rest was religious preaching, sexism, predominance of male voices and experiences and confusing shifts in characters' ideologies, values, opinions...
2. The episodic structure did not help at all. I do not remember the last time when I was so disconnected with the narrative and its characters.
3. Dan's repetitive vocalization of the assumption that morally flawed/bad man deserved to die - then him as a murderer deserving to live... I was utterly lost in his reasoning. Also the idea that a woman (or her image) is needed for a male salvation is problematic. Well, many discourses that were presented were highly problematic.