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Ive Heard the Mermaid Singing

• Group Cherry, Mindy, Julie, Andrea,
• Victoria, Stephanie
• Professor Kate Liu

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Introduction.

• A. Thesis Statement
• Polly, as a social misfit, under the
• pressure of social institution, she
• struggles among the individual of
• herself, female sexuality and art to
• find her own value system.

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Introduction.

• B. Social Institution
• 1. work place
• 2. art names (Church gallery, Mary
  Joseph,
• Gabriel, Polly and Dora)
• 3. patriarchy and heterosexuality
• C. The Main Character--- Polly
• 1. sexual oritation
• 2. social misfit
• 3. self-identity

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Polly (individual level)

• A. Polly is a social misfit
• 1.how she works
• 2.bad social manner (the gift, eating in
  the
• Japanese restaurant, in front of the
  
• mirror)
• 3.outsider (her house, the way she eat---
• with cat, no routine)
• B. Fantasy
• 1.climbing high building
• 2.heard the mermaid singing

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Female sexuality (second level)

• A. The three main characters
• 1.Mary Joseph---man
• 2.Gabriel--- man and woman
• 3.Polly---bisexual
• B. The first turning point
• C. The second fantasy

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Art (the third level)

• A. The growing process
• 1.admire
• 2.be rejected
• 3.surmount
• B. Compare--- Gabriels and Pollys attitude
• toward art
• 1.the second turning point
• 2.the pictures
• C.the empty painting

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Conclusion

• A. Self-accomplishment
• 1.the fourth fantasy
• 2.the third turning point
• 3.the final scene
• B. Connection with the filmmaker