The author of the article I so selected compares and contrasts the two Beautys and their responses to their designated Beast in the stories "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Tiger's Wife" and further goes on to discuss the opposing views of gender roles in these stories. While the Beauty of "Beauty and the Beast" is gentle, kind, wholesome, and altogether a passive character, the Beauty of "The Tiger's Wife" is all but the opposite; she is sarcastic, angry, sexual, and active.
That all being said, let's get to some rhetorical analysis! The writer wrote this article to, as stated before, compare and contrast these vastly different roles of women in these stories. The author is calling the reader to consider what is a more valid portrayal of a woman and how that affects a man. The piece is directed to students and students can use this and apply it to other literary works and how the woman is portrayed there: if she passively follows the orders of a man or actively pursues her own future. The author uses text to support her point, which is that these two stories portray two very different versions of the female role.This thesis does raise some questions of what indeed should be the role of a woman in literature. It's really nothing too new or edgy, but a controversy nonetheless.
The structure of this, all spare the introduction, follows the "rules" pretty closely. The introduction does not start with a hook, but instead just goes straight into the content of the article. I found this to be both difficult and helpful. It was difficult because frankly, it was difficult to care at all about what she was talking about. But on the other hand, this general theme of "lack-of-fluffy-writing", if you will, made the article much easier to read. Within this "cutting of fluff", the author also cut most of the fancy transitions that students are told to use. We are preached at that without these, our writing will be next to unbearable and choppy!...and that is not the case in this article at all. The article flows just fine without the all-holy transitions. And although written in a formal tone, this article does not cause a reader to pull up dictionary.com or hunt for a dictionary in print (that would be quite the hunt indeed...).
This article, content wise, was rather repetitive. Although it was interesting to learn about a text I have never read, the comparisons and the contrasts were rather basic. Also, this article followed the rules rather closely, it skipped out on "fluff" and just put what was needed, the meat, if you will, of the writing, which was much appreciated.
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