Analysis#7

Analysis #7

Human as an object!

Said presents the idea by analyzing the relationships between East and West during the nineteenth and twentieth century by giving the example of the way European dominates Easterners.   According to Edward W. Said’s Orientalism noted that, “made Oriental.  There is very little consent to be found, for example, in the fact that Flaubert’s encounter with an Egyptian courtesan produced a widely influential model of the Oriental woman; she never spoke of herself, she never represented her emotion, presence, or history.  He spoke for and represented her” (1870).   Asian or Middle Eastern was very common in the 19th Century in Europe and was a driving force behind many works of European art. 

J.A.D. Ingres, Grande Odalisque.  A woman in the picture is showing her ideal body.  She has a well- proportioned body.  At that time, people thought a woman body should be like the women in the picture.

Jean-Leon Gerome, Slave Market.  European superiority – since Europeans had banned slavery before the USA.  A woman slave is sold as an object in the market.  She needs to show her body in front of male gaze.

What happens when women become an object?  A woman is commodity.  A nude woman displays for the consuming men European.  Those two pictures as I show are Academic style.  The pictures look real, but idealize at nineteen century.  The women are an exotic “Oriental” object display for the consuming male gaze which is idealizes body part to feed superior.  The gaze confers power according to gender.  The presumed viewer is a heterosexual.  At that time, a big issue came to rise; it was over how women are portrayed in the society.  Many people seem to think that women are negatively portrayed in the society, and that leads towards negative effects on how women are treated. 

Work cite
Leitch, Vincent B. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: W. W. Norton &, 2010. Print.