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Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Dehumanization in The Women Who Clean Fish Essay -- Women Who Clean Fi

Dehumanization in The Women Who reasonable Fish   Erica Funkhousers women who clean fish can hardly be categorized as women at all. Yet they supposedly argon all named Rose or Grace forming a vast contradiction in itself. They are introduced as individuals giving the illusion that they are of some importance but very soon they are seen as nothing more than laborers. They become an unclassifiable mass, each as common as the next. However, they do not remain unidentifiable forever and by the end of the poem the women become entirely fishlike. The Women Who Clean Fish illustrates this dehumanizing transformation into fish.   The names Rose and Grace do not fit into this poem because of the context in which they are used. When the word rose is seen or heard it is the illustration of an elegant flower at the end of a long slender stem, adorned with delicate petals that is clearly visible and an instant point of beauty comes to mind. By definition, grace means a vir tue that comes from God. Immediately an angelic, classy woman by the name of Grace is pict...

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