The Vegetarian Analysis
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Analysis of Context / Themes / Style in Han Kang's The Vegetarian
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Innately - "Yeong-hye’s desire to be more like a tree is inspired by her realization that mankind is innately violent."
Detained - "At best, she is mocked by her peers and at worst she is raped or detained in a psychiatric facility."
Triptych - "In terms of style, the book is split into 3. This can be referred to as a triptych."
Metamorphosise - "This may suggest why she is so desperate to metamorphosise into a tree or plant that only gains sustenance from the Earth, sun and rain"
Profound - "But the surrounding trees seem to be having a profound effect on her sister In-hye."
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It's important to highlight not only the "human violence" theme, but speacially the male violence, that is normalized: both the protagonist's husband and her brother in law rape their respective wives, her father is physically abusive, among other acts of more "subtle" violence.
the book style is through 3 perspectives, but there is also first person POV from husband's perspective intermitted with the vegetarian's dreams in part 1, third person POV from her sister's husband in part 2 and an alternation between present tense and past tense from the perspective of her sister in third person POV in part 3.
Who would have thought that the author
Han Kang would win the Nobel Prize in Literature back in 2021
and now here we are in 2024 as Koreans celebrate her winning The Nobel Prize, people here
in Korea are going insane over her win and buying all her books.
I am so proud of her and big congratulations to her and her
country. Her writing takes deep into painful human suffering and trauma that we
all humans can relate to especially in this day and age with all the war and suffering
we are literally witnessing right before our eyes.
She is an amazing writer and a wonderful and caring
human being. God bless you Han Kang!! We all love you very much!!
What a soul she is. I wish her the best: more books to write to wake up our dull conscience.
Thank you for this! This is actually the best analysis i found here .. Love the illustrations!
Congratulations for the Nobel Prize!
Very good analysis.
Part 2 has some sex scenes that amounts to a mild pornography, but that fits well with the overall narrative.
Congrats to author Han for the biggest literary prize anyone can ever get!!!!
Great job
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great analysis
Really helpful thank you!
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