1 | ''The Passion of New Eve'' (1977) is a {{Dystopia}}n novel by Creator/AngelaCarter. |
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3 | It's about a British man, Evelyn, who is forcibly given gender-reassignment surgery by [[StrawFeminist Militant Feminists]] and made into "a New Eve". It's a feminist satire on Feminism in general, Freudianism, and all other sorts of things. Also features a Dystopic America in the process of caving in on itself. |
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5 | !! Tropes in ''The Passion of New Eve'': |
6 | * AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Mother's reverse-Oedipal philosophizing parodies Freudian psychology. |
7 | %%* AmazonBrigade |
8 | %%* ApocalypseHow |
9 | %%* BigApplesauce: In all the worst ways. |
10 | * BodyHorror: A lot of it, but the blue ribbon goes to Mother--the self-created Fertility Goddess. Her army of Amazons have each sacrificed a breast to her, which she has grafted onto herself, so she has two giant rows of tits. |
11 | %%* BrainwashedAndCrazy |
12 | %%* CloserToEarth |
13 | %%* DoesNotLikeMen: Parodied. |
14 | %%* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt |
15 | %%* FanDisservice: So, '''so''' much. |
16 | %%* {{Gonk}}: Mother. |
17 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Just when the Evelyn/Eve joke has been made one too many time, the narrator (at this point, just post-castration, "turned into my own diminutive, Eve, the [[IncrediblyLamePun shortened]] form of Evelyn") says |
18 | --> "Perhaps, I thought, they had utilised my tender body because they couldn't resist the horrid pun of my name, with all its teasing connotations." |
19 | * MarshmallowHell: This trope is inadequate to encompass Carter's description of Evelyn being [[IncrediblyLamePun sMothered]] by Mother's gargantuan mammarian underworld. |
20 | * MeaningfulName: Eve(lyn), Lilith, and Zero. The title-character even [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on [[ContrivedCoincidence how ridiculous]] it is that a man named Evelyn would be the subject of Mother's transgender transformation. |
21 | * NoNameGiven: Mother. |
22 | %%* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Evelyn starts out as this. Sort of. |
23 | %%* StrawFeminist: Featured ohhhh so very prominently. |
24 | %%* TooDumbToLive: Evelyn. Seriously. |
25 | * WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: The whole surgery, turning Evelyn into Eve in a couple months. Of course, this was written in 1977, so it might actually have been even ''more'' science-fiction back then than it is now. |
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