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Book Is A Wound Halamenda Quotes

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This photo of a headless princess doll is inspired by the book “Book is a Wound” for the course that the society in the novel take greater interest in women’s appearances than their inner beauties. Thus, people ignore the valuable inner-qualities they possess. This corresponds to the figure in this photo, a beautiful princess doll with neither a soul nor head, which is all the society perceive from a woman. How Allamanda, Dewi Ayu and Beauty are treated by the society proves this point to be beyond doubt. Allamanda is displayed as a woman whose lure arouses numerous men’s obsession, then caused all of them “cry from a broken heart” (pg. 193). Of all pursuers, Kliwon and Shodancho loved her more than anything. One had once been so depressed after her rejection that he became a beggar, and the other is willing to “turn into a dog” (pg. 160) just to stay by her. Both of them fell in love with her like insane at first sight due to her prettiness, which establishes the fact that Allamanda’s attractiveness was solely due to her beauty. …show more content…

All well-known men in Halimunda was once in love with her and desired to touch her body. Like how Shodancho possesses burning love for Allamanda, but wants merely her body instead of love, all of Dewi Ayu’s perusers yearned to just sleep with her. Even Maman Gendeng, her most loyal lover, believed that “if he could not marry her then at least he would be the only man to sleep with her.” (pg. 128) This indicates that women’s value in the society strongly depends on their beauty and sexual

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