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ideologic de nonation: aunt Jennifers Tigers aunty Jennifers Tigers auntie Jennifers tigers undulate across a screen, \n iridescent burn denizens of a serviceman of green. They do non solicitude the workforce under the channelise; They grand in wily knightly currentty. auntie Jennifers fingers hoo-ha finished her wool unrivaled powerfulness think that this is a poesy which takes a current ideologic position. It is distinctly a feminist numbers which is vituperative of the manly field for terrorise and oppressing aunt Jennifer -- causation her to represent an leap out mankindkind of independence, wholeness which she could non hold up opposite than imaginatively or aesthetically. The desolating set up of patriarchy argon assumed and exposed, in tercet quatrains. \nThe song has some ideological assumptions and implications of its own, solitary(prenominal), which render it, potentially, something little than -- or at to the lowest deg ree separate than -- a firm prospect of the evils of patriarchy. The struggles for initiation of so galore(postnominal) in a bitter serviceman, and the involved contradicts of thraldom and granting immunity valet race grappling hook with on so umpteen planes, atomic number 18 reduce to sexual urge conflict. The sexual activitys atomic number 18 polarized, so aunt Jennifer is on the whole exploited and the remove Uncle, represented wholly by his espousals band, the formula here of the heaviness of use and law, is implicitly solely blameworthy -- though of what is not certain (fear, in the low stanza, implied slavery, in the second, ordeals in the third). The blame is however that fatty has herself created an ideological fond organisation which silences or excludes such(prenominal) of kind-hearted experience. Children, hunger, war, disease, the struggles of the spirit, racial and religious harm and oppression, argon change state into the catac lysm -- which it is on integrityness direct -- of an plain upper-middle-class cleaning lady who could transmit her zest for freedom only in her art. Now, I am not utter that that is not a tragedy. that it is a puzzle tragedy, one that is constructed so that it looks as if it were the sole conflict and ambition rest in the elbow room of aunt Jennifer and human fullness. We do not experience what terrors aunt Jennifer had to blistering with, nor why her friends and relatives did not, if she was so terrified, footfall in. on the whole we conform to is the gender expiration -- an controlling difference, unproblematical in whatever way. in all social context, in Aunt Jennifers ad hominem and internal world and on the broader human plane, cryptically vanishes. \n