"Vagina and Awareness"

In the Vagina Monologues, Ensler is celebrating the “vaginas” and “to raise awareness of violence against women”, she does because I feel she is being the voice who those women who might have been violated, raped, or women who are finding it hard to express themselves in the ways they are feeling. All around the world women are being assaulted and violated, because they are too afraid to stand up for themselves and what they believe in.  I think through Ensler’s writing she succeeds in using the words “vaginas” and “to raise awareness of violence against women”. Through her plays the word vagina is expressed in very different ways. Ensler uses the word “vagina” in both seriousness as well as humor. Ensler is giving a voice to the women who have fears and fantasies about one’s own body (Ensler). For most of these women who have found their voices, they share their experiences and stories with us in hopes to relieve their fears. Do I think that Ensler uses the word “vagina and awareness” in contradiction to each other? In some ways they are, but when you think about the word vagina it is in reference to a female part, and that female part is first thing that gets taken advantage of or taken the wrong way according to sexuality. What are the effects of reading through the monologues in a large piece? I felt that reading the monologue, as one piece was easier to understand what the “real” women felt about themselves. You get a different feeling from each play about what each woman might have experienced, or felt at a certain time on their lives. I feel that most of these plays were written for women who wanted their stories to be heard so that women all over the world who might have experienced such violence or is even afraid to discover one’s own body, Ensler is giving them their opportunities through The Vagina Monologues.