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Critique de clemia
Once again, Madeline Miller takes us on a journey (as short as it was) to discover yet a new Greek myth. This time, it is the myth of Pygmalion she choses to focus on. Though she makes it with a twist. The story is told through Galatea, the statue who got gifted life by a goddess, and happens in more recent times.
Galatea who remained without a name and an identity in the original piece of Ovide, is alive, intelligent, and aware of her situation. She has been put in a psychiatric hospital by her possessive and dangerous husband who wishes to keep her at his use only, without a self, without a life of her own. He rapes her whenever he visits, blinded by his own creative pride. She has been gifted life only to serve him, only to remained himself how great of a man he is.
Galatea will not bed though. Until the end.
This short story shows perfectly how bright of a writer Madeline Miller is. In just 50 pages, she tells so much of the misogynistic ways Greek myths were constructed. Without forgetting how our world remains deeply misogynistic as well. It is tense, poetically written and a text we should all be reading
Galatea who remained without a name and an identity in the original piece of Ovide, is alive, intelligent, and aware of her situation. She has been put in a psychiatric hospital by her possessive and dangerous husband who wishes to keep her at his use only, without a self, without a life of her own. He rapes her whenever he visits, blinded by his own creative pride. She has been gifted life only to serve him, only to remained himself how great of a man he is.
Galatea will not bed though. Until the end.
This short story shows perfectly how bright of a writer Madeline Miller is. In just 50 pages, she tells so much of the misogynistic ways Greek myths were constructed. Without forgetting how our world remains deeply misogynistic as well. It is tense, poetically written and a text we should all be reading
