The Vagina Monolouge( Q. # 3)

          I think that Ensler does achieve the goal of celebrating vaginas and raising the awareness of violence against women equally. After reading the monologues and the facts of violence, it was very shocking that how women are getting torched in this world everyday. These stories clearly tell us that how the organizations like V-Day are doing everything to protect helpless women. This monologue has become very famous. I think being a famous monologue and gathering so much money from it tells us that Ensler have achieved her purpose of writing this monologue.  Her first purpose of celebrating vagina, I think is very successful. I think these stories have everything that women need to know about vaginas. It’s a book of awareness. It educates women. These stories tell women that how they should be aware of their vaginas; give them more importance in their lives, and how they should be taken care of.  It has all the happy and sad facts of vaginas. Ensler tell us what makes it angry and what make it feel good. A happy vagina would want, “sex, go deeper, hungry for depth, kindness, change, freedom, etc.” Ensler wrote. On the other hand violence against women is the biggest issue today. I think Ensler has done a great job by writing this monologue as a drama. It has earned a lot of money and changed women’s lives. So, I think she does achieve both of these goals equally by getting women aware of the dirty society and their body parts. I don’t think that they contradict each other, because vagina and raising awareness are kind of same thing. I mean Ensler is trying to get women educated about vaginas and the awareness falls somewhere in there. Because it’s the vagina, which is taken advantage of. So, I think they don’t. I think the effect of reading all the monologues as one large peace is probably not bad, but at the same time it is. If you read all of them at same time, it kind of ties you together. You can batter understand that where the author is going. It can also be bad for the emotional reader, because there are some very sorrowful stories. They can put pressure on reader’s mind. Reading it all together can let the reader come to a certain point that what is really the purpose of this book. It can let the reader make decision that what they should do to help stop the violence. For me it was kind of a pressure. Because some of the stories are very emotional and I just want to get over with them. I just was not able to read the pain of these women, who suffered a lot. I just can’t think of it that how they wore this pain. So, I think reading them as a large peace has different effect on readers. It depends on how you take the situation.