Commentary on the poem “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy Essay

The poem Barbie boo deals with the life of a fille who had a plastic surgery. It is divided in four paragraphs which describe the life of the girl chronological.Describing the childhood of the girl the foremost chapter of the poem wants to emphasize how early girls are pushed into the role of motherhood and femininity. The girls get-go-class honours degree presents are dolls which are able to urinate (and presented dolls that did draw). Those dolls are the first meeting with her later task of being a mother. Furthermore she gets a miniature oven which is committed to her later task of workings in the kitchen (and miniature GE stoves and irons). I addition to that she gets her first beauty products. ( and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy) This is her first confrontation with beauty and familiarity. Those presents push the girl into a role which connects femininity with motherhood, domesticity and beauty.The peot starts great(p) reason for her plastic surgery already i n the first paragraph. afterward adopting this role the girls is real dischargeended when a classmate called her ugly (You cook a great big nose and fat legs.)This is a very important blame of the poem because this is the main reason for her plastic surgery.The wink paragraph shows that the society pushed her succseful into the role of a stereotype woman. Therefore she has a quite low self-estimate because she does non plump this steriotype. She is a healthy effectual girl but she keeps on apologizing for her outer appearance because she does not fit the stereotype of a beatiful woman ( She was healthy, tested intelligentShe went to and fro apologizingpossessed warm arms and back). Furthermore she has a lush cozy drive, which is not satisfied in her opinion because of her outer appearance (abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity.)The last line of the second paragraph is irony. It does not say how she is seen by the rest of the world but how she sees her self (Everyon e proverb a fat nose on thick legs). This meter is connected to the last sentence of the first paragraph. It shows how she adopted her classmates point of view about(predicate) her dust. This emphasizes her very low self-esteem.The third paragraph emphasizes her efforts to become beatiful and sexual satisfied. The first sentence of this paragraph shows what shes told to do in order to satisfie her abundant sexual drive. (She was advised to play coy, exhorted to come on hearty, exercise, diet, smile and wheedle.) utilize imagery of a turning off fan thrill the poet emphasizes how luxuriant this efforts achieved the oppsite ( Her good nature wore out like a fan belt) Her last effort is to have a plastic surgery. ( So she lilt of her nose and her legs and offered them up). Using this kind of formulation ( cut offoffered them up) this plastic surgery moves like a sacrificial offering. And it is meant to sound like that because it is an offering to the society. She offers her o wn body in order to disport other people.The last paragraph shows her achievments of her efforts and that she is still not happy. The first sentence describes how close she looks to the stereotype. She really is a symbol for beauty now. ( a cancelled up putty nose, dressed in a pink and uncontaminating nightie) In her opinion every(prenominal)body sees her as a beautiful woman now.But the poet put a question mark in that sentence because beauty is still a question of taste. She will never mold everybody happy ( Doesnt she look pretty? Everyone said.). With her new beauty she gets sexual satisfied ( Consummation at last.) Finishing the poem with a ironical sentence the poet wants to show that she is not necessarily happy now . ( To every woman a happy ending) Furthermore she adopts the girls story to the rest of the female world in order to wreak that plastic surgeries are not necessary. And they do not necessarily gain you happy because it is not good to give up the own body in order to fit in any kinds of stereotypes.