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Look at a Teacup

Look at a teacup

By Patricia Hampl
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“Look at a teacup” is an extraordinary piece of work by Hampl. The teacup is the symbol of art and culture and the witness of the Second World War. According to Hampl it is the representation of daughter-mother relation, the relation between past and presented many other events as well.

The teacup was bought by the mother in 1939. It was the same year when she became a bride and married an American who had been born in Czechoslovakia. The country was invaded and destroyed by the armies of Adolf Hitler in the Second World War.

This essay traces (searches) differences between the mother’s and daughter’s attitudes and life experiences. They disagree about many things. According to Hampl work is the most important thing in the world whereas, her mother accepts marriage and children in a very traditional role. Her mother wants Hampl to get married but she condemns marriage with bondage. Hampl makes unique connection between the past and the present. She thinks that past is more important than future whereas the mother gives priority to future. In this essay the mother has been portrayed as a symbol of tradition on the other hand, the writer is the symbol of modernism.

The teacup makes unique connection between the mother and her daughter, the past and the present, war and peace, life and struggle, women and marriage and so on.

In spite of the disagreement, between the daughter and the mother, the intimacy between them is at supreme level.

The teacup belonged to the writer’s mother but it has been given to the writer. The author would like her mother to give her other things, like information about the past but her mother will not talk, about the past. This means the only way of getting information about her mother is just looking at the teacup.

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