Germaine Greer by Ottawa vs. New York

Introduction

About the author

Germaine Greer (born January 29 of 1939) is an academic, writer and broadcaster Australian recognized as one of the representatives feminists most important twentieth century. Greer is a professor of English literature at the University of Warwick, England and the author of several internationally acclaimed books. Her book The Female Eunuch was one of the best sellers during the decade of 1970 published. This book, became the name of Greer criticized strange world while at the same time, it can be worshiped. Since then, his ideas have caused whole controversy (Greer, pp 1-2).

Her ability to communicate his own experience on lesbian sex, the rape, the abortion, the infertility, the marriage failed (confesses without shame to have been married for only three weeks), and menopause marks their talent.

After his success in 1970 with his book, The Female Eunuch, Greer left Warwick in 1972 after travelling the world promoting his book. Broadcaster was in a comedy show, Nice Time of Granada Television in northern England with Kenny Everett and Jonathan Routh, bought a house in Italy, wrote articles in The Sunday Times, then spent the next years in Africa and Asia. This includes a visit to Bangladesh to investigate the situation of women who were raped during the conflict with Pakistan (Wallace, pp 23-33).

Greer associated with student amateur acting company, the Cambridge Footlights, which launched to the scene of art and media in London. Under the nickname writer Dr. G, became a regular contributor to London's underground magazine, OZ magazine in which the owner was Richard Neville. Greer of issues consider being pornographic and unacceptable in that era.

Discussion and analysis

One of the famous works “Ottawa vs. New York” by Germaine Greer was her outstanding work, where she compared both the cities. Germaine Greer, in this short story, shares her experience and views as a visitor in both the cities, Ottawa and New York. In comparison to both the experience at her stay in the best-run hotel on the planeta on Fifth Avenue in New York; at least initially. On a closer reading of this story, it is apparent that these two various cities are metaphors for her intellect and her emotions (Kearney, pp 23-34).

The story that Germaine Greer portrays are the comparison of both cities. She gives the description of Ottawa that is Ottawa is the capital of Canada, located in the province of Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa River with the Gatineau River and the Rideau River. The city is the result of the merger in 2000 of the former City of Ottawa and 10 surrounding municipalities. The population in 2010 was about 870 250 people, making it the fourth largest city of the federation. She described how she spends her days in Ottawa, with experiencing a bad taste of coffee over there. She criticized that the currency value at Ottawa has led the city not to grow in a prospective manner. She described the manner in which the people were living ...