In Arthur Frank’s The Wounded …show more content…
One can conclude that these two women are breast cancer survivors that are not ashamed to display their mastectomy scars and deformity caused by cancer. Both of the attached images are very powerful and convey similar meanings, although the poses differ (see figures I & II). Figure I is clearly a communicative body by the way she is positioned and how her arms are wide above her shoulders (see figure I). She does not strain to cover herself or her scar but encourages the audience to look at her and observe the physical remnants left by her battle with breast cancer (see figure I). The woman in figure I is completely associated with herself and her physical being by establishing that she is not afraid to bare her body and disfiguration. The image demonstrates no difference between disease and body. Thus, displaying the idea of accepted contingency. When a communicative body is connected with itself, it accepts that life is prone to sickness and misfortune because the body does not separate it’s health and being from