Crossman+Analysis

Activity #2 Crossman's comments did shape my interpretation of his painting. He mentioned that women are often portrayed as being passive in art and other works. He also wanted to have contrast in his painting Done to Death by a Thousand boring Conversations. One thing he did was to have the terrible words "Done to Death" represented in a girly font. After he said that most women were portrayed as passive, I realized that his statement was kind of correct. However, I didn't think his painting of the woman was not passive as he intended. The subject is just laying there with no action. Activity #3 The 1984 Macintosh act does relate to Milton's Paradise Lost. In the Macintosh ad, there were many people in the room sitting down in a "perfect" society or "utopia". All the people were also men. In Paradise Lost, Adam is living in a perfect utopia also known as the Garden of Eden. However, a woman, Eve in Paradise Lost, breaks the bond and releases free will. Both present women as being rebels and ambitious. Women seem to want more than what they have as they wanted free will and knowledge.

"The woman, opportune to all attempts," page 640 paragraph 2 This quote shows that Eve is ambitious. Eve is the mother figure and represents all women, so Paradise Lost mentions that all women are ambitious or "opportune to all attempts".