For this blog post, you will make an argument about that brings together one reading and

one film from

this week. In doing so, you will practice your close reading skills: you will write an imagistic description
of a short piece of the film *that references several aspects of mise-en-scene* and draws your reader's
attention to the aspects of the segment that support your argument.

Argument: At first, I critiqued the film. Is it saying that the only way that Earth and Mother can
be preserved is when humans don't enter at all? However, the more I thought about it, the
more I see that is not the case. Humans can live on Earth in peace, but when they choose to
disobey and destroy, that is when Earth starts dying.
-"He said we have to SHARE" -Tragedy of the Commons
-"It's just a house" "can be replaced" dismissing Mother's work because women's work is
traditionally domestic, but also of nature's work.
"The house is just the body (in the book the flesh) but the mind and spirit (Him) is what's really
important.
Disobeying Mother's orders (she knows what's best for the house, she built it ground up, and
loves it as her child). She respects the people in the home and does not want to bring them
harm. But as the humans continually beat, rape, kill her and her child (Earth), she has no choice
but to hurt back. Nature is feminized when 'she' is raped, mastered, conquered, controlled,
penetrated, subdued, and mined by men.
Just as Earth is meant to be conquered, plowed, tilled, burned, inhabited, and controlled, so is
woman.

-Smoking in the house, don't touch the crystal, removing the covers of the couch, don't touch
the hot pan, don't sit on the sink, don't paint the house, don't sit upstairs, don't sit in her room
-Focus of the camera is on Mother for the majority of the movie, we not only see her pain but
we feel her pain, exasperation, hurt
-Humans demonstrate a complete disregard to her home or her wellbeing
-HOWEVER, in this movie, I see hope in how humans can live one with Mother. If they
respected her wishes, took only what she offered, and respected her home, there is a chance of
peace.

"It is decided that in birth the female provides the matter […] and the men provide the prom
which is immaterial"
Mother! Mise-en-scene (how it supports your argument)

In "Woman and Nature" and mother!, both are concerned with exploring the woman's unique
place in the world. This is something unique that all women in the past, present, and future
struggle with at some point of their lives.

Both mother! And Woman and Nature argue that women are not separated from nature.
Woman represents, in the condition of her existence and in her deepest being, man's inablility
to exist apart from nature. Woman exists on both sides of this divide. She has been, like nature,
raw material for man to exert his power over.
Also like nature, she has been a fearsome, unpredictable force, needing continually to be
dominated and held at bay.

She also serves as a buffer between man and nature. His distance from her is a continual
reassuring reminder of how much farther he is above the elemental, physical world of nature.
His connection with her is at the same time an essential link with the energy, wonder, and
mystery of that world.

Reading/watching both gives a feeling of deep sadness and overwhelming anger at the
exploitation of women and of nature that is institutionalized in the division between man and
nature.

Women's struggle for liberation is not merely linked to the ecology or environmental struggle,
but is the deepest and most profound expression of that struggle.

Conc
Woman and Natureis one of the books that allows us to create new dreams that helps us,
together, to build new a new world.

We keep repeating the same scenario. We create destruction and then we just do it again,
without learning from it.

Nature didn't really destroy herself

It was man who did it

[1] W. Cronon, "The Trouble with Wilderness," Environmental History, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 7-28, Jan.
1996. [Online]. Available:
http://faculty.washington.edu/timbillo/Readings%20and%20documents/Wilderness/Cronon%2
0The%20trouble%20with%20Wilderness.pdf.

[2] S. Griffin, Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her. New York City, NY: Harper & Row,
1978, pp. 187-303. [E-book] Available: Safari e-book.