The rhetorical influence of the photographs doesn’t rely on “information about who and when and where” (11). Woolf and her correspondent have the luxury of being removed enough from the conflict to respond to the photographs without details. Sontag points out that “for Woolf, as for many antiwar polemicists, war is generic” (10).
Sontag investigates the unified “we” audience of a particular photograph and how that audience’s unification is altered based on their position relative to the conflict in question. Sontag holds that “no ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain” (8). Woolf holds that the “we” uniting her and her male correspondent unites them in hatred against war and responding to photos depicting that hatred. Sontag takes up Woolf’s investigation in a different way. She ultimately decides that her experience with the photographs is similar to her male counterpart’s experience they are both profoundly repulsed by war. She acknowledges that the “photographs of the victims of war are themselves a species of rhetoric” (8). Woolf proceeds to examine her own thinking there by comparing her experience to a male counterpart’s in looking at photographs of war. Men (most men) like war, since for men there is ‘some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting’ that women (most women) do not feel or enjoy” (6). She opens with an interesting look at Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas, in which Woolf reflects on the origins of war. Each email has clear opt-out instructions and a clarification of why the person is receiving the email.This chapter is essentially an analysis on “regarding – at a distance, through the medium of photography- other people’s pain” (13). We only send email to persons who have joined our emailing list, contacted us, given permission to contact or have joined our site as a member. This is safe and standard functionality of most websites using 3rd party ads or services. Third Party Ads and Offers Displayed may be placed and reading cookies on your browser, or using web beacons to collect information as a result of ad serving. We don't pass any cookie information to other sites. We do not allow content that is adult, advocates against an individual, group, or organization, copyrighted material, drug, alcohol, tobacco-related, gambling content, hacking, cracking, compensation programs, violent content, weapon-related content or other illegal content. Please contact us if you see any of this type of content. We are committed to protecting your intellectual property and copyrights. We will remove any violations within 24 hours when reported. Your e-mail address or any other information will not be sold to a third party ever. No effort is made to identify individuals beyond what is submitted. We respect the privacy and rights of our users. If you would like to see our privacy policy include something else, then please contact us. Maintaining the privacy and integrity of your information is of paramount importance to us. We are heavily committed to your privacy. Click the topic you are interested in to see a list of all the quotes on that Topic. Simply click on the Topic menu item and you will see an alphabetical list of all our Topics. How can I see all the quotes on a particular Topic? Then select the Author you want from the list to see a list of all the quotes by that Author. Simply click on the name of the Author underneath a quote to see a list of all the quotes by that Author.Īnother way to see all the quotes by a particular Author is to click on the alphabet letter in the header that corresponds to the first letter of the Author's last name. How can I see all the quotes by a particular Author? Simply click the "Change Background Picture" button and click on any of the picture thumbnails you see to replace the current picture. How do I change the picture to a different one? Simply make sure there are "blue squares" at the corners of the quote and then select one of the many tools above to change the look of your quote to suit the picture. How do I change the look of the quote on a picture? Simply click on a quote anywhere on the Quotation Fun site, and you will be taken to the Pictures page where your quote will be displayed on a random picture from our collection.