"Look At A Teacup"
Patricia Hampel
The writer’s mother was married in the
year 1939, the beginning of the Second World War. The same year she
bought the teacups as gifts that were later given to the daughter.
Hampel sees a connection between herself and her mother. The teacup
reminds her of her mother’s history because her mother bought it in
1939. Through the cup the mother transfers the culture and history of
her time to the daughter. So, the cup is historical memory only. It was
made in Czechoslovakia, which was taken over and destroyed by the armies
of Adolf Hitler.
The essay associates and removes the
objective description and subjective feeling of author and teacup. The
author can express lots of feeling and ideas making the teacup as a
medium. She tries to compare the falling of flower in the teacup as
destruction of beauty due to falling bombs. There was also cultural and
social degradation. The style of this essay is stream of consciousness.
So, the reader feels somehow puzzled to track down the plot of the
essay. She expresses all her feelings try to compete each other. So,
some sentences are fragmented. Logically they do not follow each other.
The writing is beautifully decorated but the meanings are deviated.
There is symbolic meaning of the things.
‘Falling flowers’ implies the degrading situation and ‘teacups’ were
human rituals and arts. Certainly the essayist refers the fall and break
of culture. ‘Falling bodies’ were dying people in the war and ‘beds’
have meaning of the battlefield where the falling bodies lay. ‘The
falling of bombs onto women’ means the tragic fate of these women. They
had the disturbed married life. Fates of women were accursed by the war
and their destiny was darkened by the war and their destiny. ‘Falling
countries’ refers to the degradation of humanity, peace, progress,
brotherhood, culture, etc. of the countries involved in the war. This
essay presents the reality of war and shows the real picture of the
world caused by the destruction due to war.
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