William Goldning’s Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel where literary techniques are utilized to convey the main ideas and themes of the novel. Two important central themes of the novel includes loss of civilization and innocense which tie into the concept of innate human evil. Loss of civilization is simply the transition from civilization to savagery; order to chaos. The concept of loss of innocense is a key concept to innate human evil because childhood innocense is disrupted as the group
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The video Diversity Conversations: Susan Williams & Michele Norris was inordinately alluring especially once the video commenced. The outlook on race and how it is constructed and not biologically was immensely compelling to me because though we know that often times it is suppressed do to the societal issues dealing with race that exist today. The video was very insightful with information that pertained to race. Even though the title of the video included the word diversity I was not expecting
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its impact on two diverse characters they both successfully describe what it means to be African American in a predominately white society. In this essay I aim to describe two seemingly different scenes in both novels that portray the meaning of blackness through the use of color‚ personal experience and white oppression. The scene I wish to discuss from Native Son comes from the end of the novel when Bigger Thomas is on the verge of being caught for the killing of Mary Dalton. Throughout Book II
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Feelings of Helplessness At one point or another we all succumb to the feeling of helplessness in our lives. Whether it is a feeling of not being able to break free of an abusive loved one or being trapped by a bad storm‚ the natural animal instinct of survival is apparent. "Celebration" written by W.D. Valgardson studies that instinct and the helplessness of situations that drives us to it. Valgardson introduces various situations that require survival techniques in the story. One is the helplessness
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word black leads to disgrace and fear. Hence‚ the word black made most feel less than. At this time‚ a code of silence existed amongst black people. Living in a society that might lynch a person for being black‚ it makes sense that celebrating your blackness was forbidden. This eventually leads to the emasculation and castration of the black male. Pre civil rights‚ most black males were viewed as laughing‚ singing‚ entertainers and servants. The men were considered weak‚ and the women were considered
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The Fat Black Woman Composes a Poem In order to understand the underlying messages that Grace Nichols was trying to send out through her writing‚ one must understand the context of “The fat black woman composes a poem” as well as the context of the entire book. The first and strongest context is racial context in the form of post-colonial racism in the United Kingdom (where she was residing at the time). Throughout the book‚ Nichols shows what it was like to be a minority at the time and how she
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traits of the protagonist Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth is painted with frequent shades of black. Nature is foul and the desolate heath‚ the darkness of the night all contribute to the general effect of darkness. Darkness‚ or we may even say blackness broods over this tragedy. The vision of the dagger hanging before Macbeth’s eyes‚ the regicide‚ the murder of Banquo‚ the sleep walking of Lady Macbeth all come in the night scenes. The Withes dance in the thick hair of a storm‚ or‚ “black and
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harder for what they own‚ and to rise the ladder of success in this Eurocentric world‚ they must strip away their blackness to gain acceptance. Why do young girls relax their hair? why are light skins preferred over darker skins? The elevation of classes remains so important‚ and to keep that importance‚ black elites commit maintaining their status by not affiliating themselves with blackness. Jefferson wrote a magnificent piece of literature that highlights rich black people‚ her life show that as
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the carriers of diseases. “Walker set out to honor the workers who chopped the cane‚ hauled it to port‚ retched in the slave ships below decks on their way to another port‚ boiled the molasses in great vats at fiery temperatures‚ stripped off its blackness— its flavor‚ its richness‚ its health-giving nutrients —and turned it into sugar‚ that is‚ turned it into nutritional poison‚ the color of cocaine” (Larson‚ 2014”. Walker used white sugar to show us how it acts as a whip that causes great suffering
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“Whiteness refers to a multitude of individual‚ collective‚ intentional‚ unintentional‚ isolated‚ systemic‚ actions that synergistically work to sustain and constantly regenerate relationships of unequal power between whites and nonwhites.” Blackness does not directly correlate to the color of ones’ skin‚ but equates ones use in “civil society”. The abolishment of Sati‚ or ritual burning‚ was delegitimized by the British Empire. As the British Empire swept through India and predisposed what was
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