{"id":31,"date":"2007-03-10T12:33:24","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T17:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/2007\/03\/10\/circularity-in-lw-1994\/"},"modified":"2007-03-10T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T17:33:24","slug":"circularity-in-lw-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/2007\/03\/10\/circularity-in-lw-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"Circularity in LW 1994?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was there any circularity in this adaptation?\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure.\u00c2\u00a0 There was definitely a strong emphasis on feminism and independence.\u00c2\u00a0 There was plenty of juxtaposition\/binary opposition with Jo cutting her hair.\u00c2\u00a0 With long hair, Jo retains more of a feminine quality.\u00c2\u00a0 She is naive and innocent and interested more in playing with Laurie than in becoming a young lady.\u00c2\u00a0 However, when she cuts her hair to raise money for Marmee&#8217;s trip to Washington, she loses a bit of her innocence.\u00c2\u00a0 By this I mean she realizes the power of \u00c2\u00a0money as a tool.\u00c2\u00a0 Her hair becomes a commodity and she the bearer of this tool which has the power to regenerate itself.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Her hair keeps growing and she can keep selling it.\u00c2\u00a0 It is odd that men lose power when they cut\u00c2\u00a0their hair and women gain it when they do the same.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was there any circularity in this adaptation?\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure.\u00c2\u00a0 There was definitely a strong emphasis on feminism and independence.\u00c2\u00a0 There was plenty of juxtaposition\/binary opposition with Jo cutting her hair.\u00c2\u00a0 With long hair, Jo retains more of a feminine quality.\u00c2\u00a0 She is naive and innocent and interested more in playing with Laurie than in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}