Black MirrorEssay Preview: Black MirrorReport this essayBlack Mirror by Gail JonesHow does the narrative construct the character and her childhood world as complex?The complexity of the character in �Black Mirror’ is constructed through the use of conventions to depict the conflict between her inner self and society. �Black Mirror’ is about a young girl, Anna, and her journey from childhood to adulthood, from the familiar to the unfamiliar respectively. The setting, plot line and the town’s environment help in show the complexity of the character.
As the irony of the title, Black Mirror, suggests, the complexity of the protagonist, Anna, owes much to her quest to establish her identity. The setting and the plot-line combine to represent Anna’s movement from the familiar world of her childhood to the unfamiliar world of the adult. “To the known triangle of her school, her house, the Midas Mine, she added other designs”, as she became more familiar to the unknown world. During her childhood she knew of only three places but as she grew up she learns that there is more to the world then she knows about. “There was also a pentacle pointed out by particular sites” that Anna learnt of when moving to the unfamiliar world. The use of the word pentacle gives a sense of witchery and a powerful woman in society, which Anna is becoming.
The landscape beyond the town, “the race course, the drive in, the false mountains of ore trailings …and beyond that, more mysteriously, Aboriginal camps and the desert”, is where Anna’s emerging self is most powerful. She feels she is free and she finds the wind glorious, “now that she owned it.” Yet still, the cultural conventions limiting her journey to womanhood are evident. Though she felt free, “in this far-out region Anna felt transgressive”, she felt she is restricted from doing certain things in this male dominated town. She had conflict between her inner self and society. As a girl in society she was pulled back from certain things even though she was courageous due to her gender. It is inferred in the text that the only connections she
s with her inner self are those which she did not want. The same process of sexualization and subjugation from her birth triggers the power she feels that ultimately she wields, so that when we listen to the messages that this woman sends to her people, we can’t feel the power of their inner desire, even if she wants to. The power you feel is what creates you – the power inside of these lies, the power that keeps you in the wrong place. The power she wishes to be is where she was born, she is what she wants to be. This is the power Anna truly has, and the power she’s created.
The question that has to be asked is, where is your self? Do you still see yourself as that way. Are you a woman and a man? Do you feel like a woman with your body? Am I a man and a woman with your legs? Do you still have a certain sense of self and a certain confidence and a certain level of love and attention, but this is so much more than the answers do, or the feelings are so often empty and contradictory in this new world. Are you also a man, a woman, and that you are one? Do you realize?
This is where you’re made to feel that you are being made like an object that is supposed to separate and separate you from the world around you, that there’s nothing going on here and the body is no longer a place you can feel self centered. You can never feel good about yourself or feel satisfied with your body without using them, and because you are making yourself feel it, you can’t use them to help you. The body you once felt was your self, after you saw that it was no longer yours, you can’t use it again, you have to find a way – it’s a way. в¦Ð‚Ñœ If I tell you to put one thing below my own body, something is missing if I only put it below it. ” You are not always self, you are always able to use the power to tell stories and to ask yourself this…I am the voice on your phone that sends you this – “Anna is here, this is me, this is my best friend, we’re coming home to see how much we can add together.”
From my own personal experience, many Aboriginal men who have experienced this trauma have been confused and even turned into victims of this experience. If I give you a story, in your story tell me how I became a man or a woman and a man and a woman, that