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This 3 page paper contrasts and compares the controlling images/metaphors of Tolstoy's The Porcelain Doll and Octavio Paz's My Life With the Wave. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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their life, had to develop a way in which to convey their messages in a way that still got the message across, but also didnt place them in jeopardy. Art
finds a way. This way, for Tolstoy and Paz, was to turn to the genre of magical surrealism and the fantastic. Magical surrealists often construct the probable from the improbable.
In Tolstoys work, the Porcelain Doll, Tolstoy addresses the reader directly in the opening paragraphs of the work. He writes that he knows that he has gone to bed with
his wife, Sonya, but that shortly thereafter another Sonya came into the room and began to undress. Tolstoy says that this time, this Sonya, was not his flesh and blood
wife, but was a porcelain Sonya(Tolstoy 34). This serves as the central image and metaphor for the story: woman as The Porcelain Doll. "And the chemise was one I knew,
with lace, and there was a knot of black hair behind but of porcelain, and the fine slender hands, and large eyes, and the lips--all were the same, but of
porcelain. And the dimple in her chin and the small bones in front of her shoulders were there too, but of porcelain(Tolstoy 35)" The element of the surreal in
Octavio Pazs story, My Life with The Wave, is that a man falls in love with a wave from the ocean and brings it home to live with him. Immediately,
one is able to suspend disbelief in the story because Paz immediately gives the reader something with which to identify: love and infatuation. The wave, then, is the central image
and metaphor in this work. The meaning of The Porcelain Doll image contributes to the story in that it serves to illuminate how Tolstoy has felt about his
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