Wendy Rose post

Response to prompt #1

Based on Rose's poems Julia and Truganinny are viewed as outcasts for a couple of reasons. Julia is viewed as an outcast because of her facial deformities. She was a mexican woman who had long hair on her face and body and went around the world as a circus freak. She was called "The Ugliest Woman alive". She married to her manager thinking that she had actually found true love. She soon found out that he just married her for a financial investment. In a line in her poem she says " Tell me it was just a dream, my husband, ......that our marriage is made of malice and money." I feel that it was very wrong for her husband to do that to her, although her husband was found to be insane and died in asylum. Julia was viewed as an outcast and a circus freak and she just wanted to find her place in the world. She thought that she had found it with her husband, but she was wrong. Her husband just wanted to further exploit her as an outcast and freak. He put Julia on display to make money.
Truganinny was viewed as an outcast also because of her appearance and because she was the last of the Tasmanians. She did not want to be viewed as an outcast even after she died. She asked to be buried when she died but instead she was stuffed just like her husband and put on display. She was also put on display to exploit her appearance with no consideration to her feelings. This was the last thing that she wanted to happen but it was inevitable because no one cared about her, they just cared about themselves.