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This 4 page paper gives an explanation and summary of the main themes and points in Simone de Beauvoir's work, Femme Rompue (The Woman Destroyed). Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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of feminism and sexual equality long before feminism was the buzz word that it is today. Her body of works, especially, La Femme Rompue, illustrate the philosophy of self and
of womanhood. The powerful influence that Beauvoir was able to exact through the written word is astounding. Through Woman Destroyed, in particular, LAge de discretion, she is able illustrate beyond
gender into the explanation for various human conditions. The burdens created by society are particularly poignant in this section of the book and the obstacles which face her heroine are
comparable to the obstacles that she and women of her time were facing. In the character of Marianne, she illustrates the theme of female sexuality being equivalent to that
of a males ardor. Love and sex should be enjoyed in free relationships between equal partners. The pity with which one feels for this character comes from the fact that
she has been dependent, both romantically and emotionally, on a man. Economic dependence on a man was also shunned and is featured in this novel to the point that one
understands that as long as the women are subject to a man for survival that the men will always call the shots and the women will be reduced to playing
the role of a child begging for a coin. In this book she also seems to suggest that women ought to be able
to talk without shame about the functions of their bodies, including menstruation and sexual awareness. While these themes are lightly suggested in this work, she would continue this theme throughout
many of her later works, as well. One of the main points that she makes in this work (which is really a
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