Topic question: Discuss the presentation of women in the ballads: Lord Randal, Edward, Twa Corbies.
Question 1: Do you have any suggestion for the title?
Question 2: Does this essay make sense? Is it too complicated, too redundant?
Question 3: MOST important question is- Is there any grammar mistake or colloquial phrases I should replace?
Question 4: How are my vocabulary words? Does it sound too grandiloquent?
Question 5: Is this in the MLS structure?
Nature was seen as the embodiment of all the characteristics that women possess. To intertwine women with nature, we associate those two terms by referring to the metaphor ‘Mother Earth.’ Many have perceived the earth as being feminine. The earth represents the life cycle, the reproduction, and beauty. The Mother Earth contains two contrasting sides that it reveals to the world; “one being passive, being the nurturing mother, and the other being wild and uncontrollable.”Being passive represent the earth’s vulnerability to mankind‘s civilization, being a nurturing mother symbolizes it being the giver and supporter of life, while being wild and uncontrollable represents natural disasters such as storms and floods. The presentation of women in the ballads reveals two contrasting sides that manifest within nature, one being passive, while the other being wild and uncontrollable. Or In the ballads, the mothers and the ladies, reveals two contrasting side that manifest within nature, one being passive, while the other being wild and uncontrollable.
Men have been dominant over women since prehistoric times. It has been partially ingrained in the society’s expectation for women to be submissive and docile. Historically, women have no power in the outside world. They are passive like nature and unable to decision-making. This is proven by Edward and Lord Randal’s mothers who lack the power to own their own property and have no influence over their son’s will. Both the mothers live in a constrained lifestyle under the presence of a male dominance which is either their son or husband. To secure their family titles, prosperity and safety, the women could only be dependent toward the male hierarchy in the family. When Lord Randal and Edward’s mothers lost their sons, mustering of relatives was vital. The son’s will was significant to the mothers because it had a huge influence in determining their fate and future. In both the poems, Lord Randal and Edward, it has portrayed women’s passiveness in the society and their vulnerability to sustain a title for themselves as an individual.
It is true that men have had a larger control and power over society. However, when it comes to sexual relation, women win over men. This is partly because sexual relations are the women’s realm. These sexual intimacies allow women to revert to their nature instinct, and in this case lure men into traps. The knight and Lord Randal were both victims of the possible love affair they shared with their different lovers. Lord Randal poisoned as the result of going to ‘the greenwood,’ to meet his true love. The greenwood denotes nature, metaphorically as in ‘mother earth’ whose side creates havoc and calamity. It is the wild and uncontrollable side to women that makes men hostile to nature. The knight was also possibly murdered by his lady, for it gives evidence that there were no witnesses. Both their death is tragic, but most importantly it encapsulate that their tragedy occurred in some place in nature, where these women portrayed the true power and control over men.
The presentations of women in these ballads have revealed two different sides to them that nature also possesses, one being passive while the other being wild and uncontrollable. The wild and uncontrollable side of nature that manifest within women caused the downfall Lord Randal, the knight and Edward. The passive side of nature revealed women’s inability to live a life without the dependent of male dominance. The passive and wild side counteracts each other. It almost seems that the passive side of nature provokes the nature into being wild in an endless cycle. Nevertheless, the ballads have depicted the two hidden faces of women and nature.
Question 1: Do you have any suggestion for the title?
Question 2: Does this essay make sense? Is it too complicated, too redundant?
Question 3: MOST important question is- Is there any grammar mistake or colloquial phrases I should replace?
Question 4: How are my vocabulary words? Does it sound too grandiloquent?
Question 5: Is this in the MLS structure?
Nature was seen as the embodiment of all the characteristics that women possess. To intertwine women with nature, we associate those two terms by referring to the metaphor ‘Mother Earth.’ Many have perceived the earth as being feminine. The earth represents the life cycle, the reproduction, and beauty. The Mother Earth contains two contrasting sides that it reveals to the world; “one being passive, being the nurturing mother, and the other being wild and uncontrollable.”Being passive represent the earth’s vulnerability to mankind‘s civilization, being a nurturing mother symbolizes it being the giver and supporter of life, while being wild and uncontrollable represents natural disasters such as storms and floods. The presentation of women in the ballads reveals two contrasting sides that manifest within nature, one being passive, while the other being wild and uncontrollable. Or In the ballads, the mothers and the ladies, reveals two contrasting side that manifest within nature, one being passive, while the other being wild and uncontrollable.
Men have been dominant over women since prehistoric times. It has been partially ingrained in the society’s expectation for women to be submissive and docile. Historically, women have no power in the outside world. They are passive like nature and unable to decision-making. This is proven by Edward and Lord Randal’s mothers who lack the power to own their own property and have no influence over their son’s will. Both the mothers live in a constrained lifestyle under the presence of a male dominance which is either their son or husband. To secure their family titles, prosperity and safety, the women could only be dependent toward the male hierarchy in the family. When Lord Randal and Edward’s mothers lost their sons, mustering of relatives was vital. The son’s will was significant to the mothers because it had a huge influence in determining their fate and future. In both the poems, Lord Randal and Edward, it has portrayed women’s passiveness in the society and their vulnerability to sustain a title for themselves as an individual.
It is true that men have had a larger control and power over society. However, when it comes to sexual relation, women win over men. This is partly because sexual relations are the women’s realm. These sexual intimacies allow women to revert to their nature instinct, and in this case lure men into traps. The knight and Lord Randal were both victims of the possible love affair they shared with their different lovers. Lord Randal poisoned as the result of going to ‘the greenwood,’ to meet his true love. The greenwood denotes nature, metaphorically as in ‘mother earth’ whose side creates havoc and calamity. It is the wild and uncontrollable side to women that makes men hostile to nature. The knight was also possibly murdered by his lady, for it gives evidence that there were no witnesses. Both their death is tragic, but most importantly it encapsulate that their tragedy occurred in some place in nature, where these women portrayed the true power and control over men.
The presentations of women in these ballads have revealed two different sides to them that nature also possesses, one being passive while the other being wild and uncontrollable. The wild and uncontrollable side of nature that manifest within women caused the downfall Lord Randal, the knight and Edward. The passive side of nature revealed women’s inability to live a life without the dependent of male dominance. The passive and wild side counteracts each other. It almost seems that the passive side of nature provokes the nature into being wild in an endless cycle. Nevertheless, the ballads have depicted the two hidden faces of women and nature.