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A 5 page analysis of Jeanette Winterson's provocative novel 'Written on the Body,' in which the author offers an intriguing psychologically oriented novel that engages the reader's imagination through her expert manipulation of language. No additional sources cited.
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? properly! In Written on the Body, author Jeanette Winterson offers an intriguing psychologically oriented novel that engages
the readers imagination through her expert manipulation of language. On one level, this novel is a straightforward, extremely passionate, love story?that comes complete with a loathsome and thoroughly despicable husband
as the villain. On another level, however, the novel can be seen as narrative poetry that explores the relationship between language, personal knowledge and the body. One of the
many ways that Winterson explores language?and the principal characteristic of the novel as well?is the narrators voice. While the reader becomes intimately acquainted with this person?learning the details of all
past love affairs?the reader does not learn the narrators name, age, background, and?most intriguing?the narrators gender. The sex of the protagonist remains a mystery. At times, this person "feels" male,
but?for the vast majority of the book?the narrators voice "feels" or appears to be female. Therefore, for the purposes of this report, the female pronoun will be used; however, this
is never stated explicitly by Winterson, who clearly intends for this to be a matter decided by the reader. The narrator, after a series of passionate affairs with beautiful
women, falls in love with Louise, who is married to Elgin, a Jewish doctor who is a cancer specialist. The novels structure is broken loosely into three parts. The second
part, which is entitled "The Cells, Tissues, Systems and Cavities of the Body," is the most unusual section of the novel in regards to Wintersons use of language. For example,
the narrator, who we do learn is a professional translator, meditates on the topic of Louises leukemia, and, in the process, rewrites the sterile, medical language into something personal and
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