4) Emotion plays a huge role in what Ensler is trying to accomplish. Why is this? How does she use emotions like humor as a strategy? How does she move us from laughter to embarrassment to sadness to other emotional reactions and why do you think she is doing this?
In the novel, The Vagina Monolouges Ensler uses humor as a way to draw the attention off of a uncomfortable subject. Some people do not like to talk about vagainas and if you use humor it makes the book more funny. I think people can be hesitant about reading this book because of the title. You do not really know what your getting into when you are reading a book about vaginas.
The emotional feelings you get from reading this book varies. You know at one point you may laugh (example of using the humor) at the context or the word choice she uses. However, at another point where she is refering to the torture that some vaginas have gone through (Ensler). Thats when you realize that it is also has a serious attitude about it.
I think word choice plays a key role in how the readers flow through the novel. It is liek it is her way of trying to make the readers as comfortable as posssible while reading this book. The Vagina Monologues can be serious at times and then funny at times. But Ensler does a great job of portraying this in the novel.
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