Blog 4: Villain or Not?

B. Is this a memoir without villains?
In the Memoir My Father’s House by Sylvia Fraser, there is a villain in the memoir and that is her father who sexually abused her when she was very young. We know this by reading the memoir’s two different italics, bold face writing and regular roman print. The italic writing represents the time which the abuse took place, the bold face writing represent the passages derived through recovered memory, and the regular roman writing represents descriptions of past. All of these different methods supports the idea of Sylvia’s father being a an inhumane beast, who just doesn’t have a mind of its own and just tries to over power everyone who is smaller to him. Another quote that supports that there is a villain in this memoir is that when Sylvia says “I might have been diagnosed as a child possessed by the devil. What, in fact, I had been possessed by was daddy’s forked instrument – the devil in man.” p. 492. this quote supports the idea of Sylvia’s father being the devil or the evil figure in the memoir thus proving that there is a villain in this memoir.