The Voice Within - Critical Analysis
I felt that this song was explicit in its dealings with experience, as it focused generally on the ideas that one can only truly trust one's self when times get rough, and that it is through fighting through your bad experiences that you come out stronger. Innocence was portrayed mostly through symbolism and the repetition of the idea of the "young girl". Also, the song drew parallels within itself, so as to depict the journey from innocence to experience, in self-reference. Experience was explored in the text through various vehicles, and in its various manifestations. The idea that the world has fallen in line two, expresses a sense of total misery and vulnerability. It is only through an awful or a series of awful experiences the world. Also, the line is very similar to the idiom "one's wall is falling". The similarity draws the audience's attention to the idea that the subject is exposed to the adve
" This is again brought up in the fifth stanza, "no one reaches out a hand for you to hold" - which reflects that innocent desire for an entirely valid desire for human reassurance. rsities of the world, without any protection or salvation. I felt these lines were a perfect paradox of innocence and experience, that people understand the implications of experience and how to control it, but are unwilling to share their experience with the innocent. Also, the imagery of this line is particularly affecting. The young girl, lost in the harsh brutality of the world, confused between her innocent desires and her knowledge of reality, seeking a simple notion of kindness, is unrewarded. Innocence and experience were portrayed through examinations of fantasy versus reality, loneliness and disorientation versus self-reliance and pain. Thus the image evoked is the young girl figure we have become aquatinted with, in the fantastic state of naivety. I felt that pain was the main theme that underpinned the entire song, through the notion that innocence is ignorance and bliss, but that experience is pain, reality but also overcoming adversities and pain. "No one ever wants or bothers to explain / of the heartache life can bring and what it means". in a world where innocence is quickly claimed" we see that the experiences of reality are so far removed from the ideal dream world of the young girl, that she has no choice but to accept reality and forget ignorance. This forces the audience to question the values of the modern world and the effects that these have on the children. The exploration of the difficult and emotional journey from innocence to experience is powerfully portrayed through various metaphors and ideological parallels. I felt that the idea of dreaming and the concept of "nothing is harder than it seems" reflected the childlike concepts that most people lose with maturity in both age and practise.
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