Post by vigdis on Mar 19, 2013 22:34:47 GMT -5
As per your CA, you dear girl are to pen a 1,500 word essay on Elizabeth Cardwell,as per the book: Nomads of Gor. I have a feeling you will enjoy this on and I very much look forward to reading it!!!!
“Now I could see down the wide, grassy lane, loping towards us, two kaiila and riders. A lance was fastened between them, fixed to the stirrups of their saddles. The lance cleared the ground, given the height of the kaiila, by about five feet. Between the two animals, stumbling desperately, her throat bound by leather thongs to the lance behind her neck, ran a girl, her wrists tied behind her back.” pg22
This is how we first meet Elizabeth Cardwell, American from New York Clothes ratty, feet torn no doubt scared witless the only thing on her recognizable to the Tachuk Kamchak a Turian message collar made of leather. Tasked by Kamchack to learn Gorean, Tarl Cabot is assigned to be her teacher.
Tarl upon seeing this girl is taken aback. The last he was aware because of the fighting among the Priest-Kings the voyages had stopped. He is pleased of course by her slender figure and brown hair and eyes.
We learn that she is full of pride, haughty and quite beautiful. The Tachuk, Kamchak through Tarl questions the girl in front of Kutaituchik. This too is when we find out the message in the collar that she wears and see her true status as a pawn of the white skinned man.
One learns quickly of the extent of Elizabeth's haughty nature for when she was asked by Kutaituchik if she was eager to serve the Tuchucks as a slave she instantly balks at the idea and is threatened with death. Obviously to save her neck (in every sense) she does give in and becomes the slave vella.
There are two things that the bond vigdis can see in Elizabeth/vella that she admires up to this point. Her willingness to please by answering the questions given to her by Kamchak and her apparent submissive demeanor. In point of fact vigdis will point out that vella learns her place quickly though the idea of male domination does not settle well on her heart.
We see that in the presence of true Gorean males, vella learns her place quickly and well and vigdis will point out that her slave heart blossoms.
Elizabeth however is too smart and clever for her own good. In her slavery she keeps her tenacious nature and learns that Tarl is not like the other Gorean males in the camp. She realizes quite quickly that Tarl does not have the same hard edge, the same innate acceptance of female slavery that the men on Gor are born with. Elizabeth quickly finds a way to use this to her advantage, manipulating Tarl into freeing her and has found a way to convince herself through these manipulations that she is not a slave at heart.
Ultimately, vigdis sees this as Norman's way to take the feminist out of the Earth girls and establish how truly male dominate Gor is compared to Earth. It is always a stubble thread in the books that vigdis has read. A gentle reminder if You will, of the 'natural order' of things.
There of course is nothing wrong in Norman doing this. He is the ultimate anthropologist in this sense because he is giving us a glimpse into a world that culturally we, the unsuspecting reader will either learn to accept as truth or to vilify. We are too human not to see ourselves in a role within the books, to realize that though vastly different there is truth hidden in these layers.
What does strike vigdis is that this is the second time that she has seen Tarl being manipulated by females in the books. The first instance is when he misjudges the beauty Talana, daughter of Marlenus of Ar.
What vigdis hopes ultimately is that as the books progress Tarl will finally feel within himself his 'birthright' and realize his true nature. The bond vigdis feels bad for him in the sense that he is too easily manipulated. He to this point is much like Elizabeth in that He too is but a pawn in fist the needs of the Priest-Kings, and then to the truly tenacious slave.
In closing vigdis will suggest the following: she does not much care for the girl vella. She is willful, manipulative and mean. She is not true to herself and in such vig fears she is not true to the others that she meets
“Now I could see down the wide, grassy lane, loping towards us, two kaiila and riders. A lance was fastened between them, fixed to the stirrups of their saddles. The lance cleared the ground, given the height of the kaiila, by about five feet. Between the two animals, stumbling desperately, her throat bound by leather thongs to the lance behind her neck, ran a girl, her wrists tied behind her back.” pg22
This is how we first meet Elizabeth Cardwell, American from New York Clothes ratty, feet torn no doubt scared witless the only thing on her recognizable to the Tachuk Kamchak a Turian message collar made of leather. Tasked by Kamchack to learn Gorean, Tarl Cabot is assigned to be her teacher.
Tarl upon seeing this girl is taken aback. The last he was aware because of the fighting among the Priest-Kings the voyages had stopped. He is pleased of course by her slender figure and brown hair and eyes.
We learn that she is full of pride, haughty and quite beautiful. The Tachuk, Kamchak through Tarl questions the girl in front of Kutaituchik. This too is when we find out the message in the collar that she wears and see her true status as a pawn of the white skinned man.
One learns quickly of the extent of Elizabeth's haughty nature for when she was asked by Kutaituchik if she was eager to serve the Tuchucks as a slave she instantly balks at the idea and is threatened with death. Obviously to save her neck (in every sense) she does give in and becomes the slave vella.
There are two things that the bond vigdis can see in Elizabeth/vella that she admires up to this point. Her willingness to please by answering the questions given to her by Kamchak and her apparent submissive demeanor. In point of fact vigdis will point out that vella learns her place quickly though the idea of male domination does not settle well on her heart.
We see that in the presence of true Gorean males, vella learns her place quickly and well and vigdis will point out that her slave heart blossoms.
Elizabeth however is too smart and clever for her own good. In her slavery she keeps her tenacious nature and learns that Tarl is not like the other Gorean males in the camp. She realizes quite quickly that Tarl does not have the same hard edge, the same innate acceptance of female slavery that the men on Gor are born with. Elizabeth quickly finds a way to use this to her advantage, manipulating Tarl into freeing her and has found a way to convince herself through these manipulations that she is not a slave at heart.
Ultimately, vigdis sees this as Norman's way to take the feminist out of the Earth girls and establish how truly male dominate Gor is compared to Earth. It is always a stubble thread in the books that vigdis has read. A gentle reminder if You will, of the 'natural order' of things.
There of course is nothing wrong in Norman doing this. He is the ultimate anthropologist in this sense because he is giving us a glimpse into a world that culturally we, the unsuspecting reader will either learn to accept as truth or to vilify. We are too human not to see ourselves in a role within the books, to realize that though vastly different there is truth hidden in these layers.
What does strike vigdis is that this is the second time that she has seen Tarl being manipulated by females in the books. The first instance is when he misjudges the beauty Talana, daughter of Marlenus of Ar.
What vigdis hopes ultimately is that as the books progress Tarl will finally feel within himself his 'birthright' and realize his true nature. The bond vigdis feels bad for him in the sense that he is too easily manipulated. He to this point is much like Elizabeth in that He too is but a pawn in fist the needs of the Priest-Kings, and then to the truly tenacious slave.
In closing vigdis will suggest the following: she does not much care for the girl vella. She is willful, manipulative and mean. She is not true to herself and in such vig fears she is not true to the others that she meets