Comparison Of Virginia Woolf's Body That Matter 'And'

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In the readlings, I learned many lessons and I discovered numerous ideas and insights. The first readling that I found especially interesting was " Form, Substance, and Difference". The relationship and connections between the organism, enviroment, mentality. Comparing to this reading, the second reading I read was Virginia Woolf's " A room of one's own" which focus on women's right and how should women get the right. On the one hand, in " Body that Matter" written by Judith Butler, it mainly dicuss on the topic subject and object on tsexulity and performativity. Based on the thesis, she used many examples and theories to support and enhance the topic. On the other hand, in Foucault's painting analysis, he carefully depict every detail and unveiled the gesture and geometrical patterns. …show more content…

Both author believe that the relationships between the enviroment and organism is different from the . From Nelson's perspective, he holds the opinion that our perceptions are limited by the enviroment that we are born in. In the enviroment, we gain experience and obtain knowledge from our ancestors but we lost the ability to think independently and seperated from the existing society. To be honest, it is impossible to be apart from because the moment when we are born, there are ties that was already formed with the family and community. For example, when there were no connection between the continents, the Mayan and European has distinct culture. The tradition and the history of two distinct group was inherited from their ancestor and keeps influencing us in nowaday society. Also, we are not only influenced by the past and traditions, but also affected by everything that is around us such as, enviroment, earth, air and organism. Because there are so many aspects and factors, we are almost impossible to not be changed. This also draws attention to Nelson Goodman's another idea that our body is part of the

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