Vagina Monologues: Prethoughts

Eve Ensler uses the reproductive organ, the Vagina, to explain more then just a part of the body in her drama The Vagina Monologues. This part of the female body is used in her drama to express in great detail the struggles of a women and what they must go through. For this drama, Eve takes the word "vagina" once thought of as only a sex object and gave it more meaning to the women who posses one and also her male readers. In the drama, the "vagina" is personified. In the title of one monologue, the vagina is personified by the title, I was Twelve my Mother Slapped Me. The Me, in this monologue, is the vagina which has been hit with its first menstrual cycle. The monologue have caused much controversy between different beliefs and views on females. In another monologue Eve talks about one woman's sexual experiences and the traumatic consequences of the experience. From reading the titles and subtitles of the monologues it is easy to see that Eve used the vagina as a way to show women and represent women as a whole. The lifestyle of a women, how they live and also how they think. In connection to the books we have read so far in class, Eve is giving more of an insight into a "women's world". By personifying vagina and giving it some human characteristics by asking questions of what a vagina would wear, it is easier for the reader to relate to the vagina. By raising these questions she makes the reader place themselves in the shoes of the vagina in the monologues and feel the pain of it along with women. These monologues act as a dairy for women and the struggles they face in life.