The response paper Youngil Hong The Psychic Life of Power- Judith Butler Butler surveys the ideas of Hegel‚ Althusser‚ and Foucault around subject formation‚ interrogating how power produces its subject and how that subject comes to perceive itself as one. Butler understands power as forming the subject and as providing the very condition of its existence. I believe that her basic idea is that the subjects become attached to the conditions of their own subjectivity even if these conditions
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Butler’s "Gender Trouble‚" addresses the problems of gender distinction and the inherent flaws related to current modes of thought. Butler begins by explaining how she will question the gender hierarchy. She notes that current feminism seeks to define gender. However‚ this is problematic. The focus on defining gender and the perceived risks of failing to do so ignore the political issue that requires a distinction (2540). Gender itself is a performance - an artificial attempt that is accepted as
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celebrating? In “Imitation and Gender Insubordination”‚ Judith Butler explores what it really means to come out and claim an identity. Although Butler acknowledges the importance of coming out for purposes of personal affirmation and community organization‚ she is ultimately skeptical in the coming out process because it means conforming to the discourses of oppressive powers and because the meaning of the identities themselves are ambiguous. Butler recognizes that coming out can be advantageous for many
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In the short story‚ “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot”‚ Robert Olen Butler makes the point that cowardly behavior can ultimately lead to ones demise through his use of plot‚ characterization‚ symbolism‚ and irony. In this story‚ Butler portrays a jealous husbands cowardly behavior when dealing with his supposedly cheating wife‚ which leads to his death. He then returns in the form of a parrot to endure the pain of his decisions. As demonstrated by the husband‚ who is the main character in
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William Butler Yeats. William Butler Yeats was the major figure in the cultural revolution which developed from the strong nationalistic movement at the end of the 19th century. He dominated the writings of a generation. He established forms and themes which came to be considered as the norms for writers of his generation. Yeats was a confessional poet - that is to say‚ that he wrote his poetry directly from his own experiences. He was an idealist‚ with a purpose. This was to create
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Strengths and weaknesses of the service industry in the UAE Student name: Rashed Salem Al Mansoori ID: 111 210 153 Economy of countries is composed of different sectors that work together in an integrated way so as to form the entire economy of the country . The importance of the role that each sector plays in the economies of countries differs from one country to another as a result of the strength or weakness of that sector. Regarding the UAE ‚ it is a country of a strong economy especially
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“Adam’s Curse” William Butler Yeats William Yeats’ “Adam’s Curse” is a poem that addresses a profound truth of time. Any human accomplishment such as poetry‚ music‚ or physical beauty requires much labor and is appreciated by few. He says this through an emotional recollection of a conversation between himself‚ his lover and her friend. I believe the meaning of the work lays waiting like a net‚ waiting to catch the reader at surface level. The poem is simplistic in nature‚ which is quite atypical
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A pray for my Daughter The summary of A prayer for My Daughter by William Butler Yeats opens up with an image of the poet’s daughter who is fast asleep in her cradle. The storm he talks about at the very onset of the poem is nothing but a contrast to the quiet sleep of the baby. The poet is worried about his child and his gloominess of mind is well portrayed through the first stanza itself. In the first stanza itself‚ the backdrop of the weather with the storm raging is nothing but a potent
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Octavia Butler’s "Kindred" Throughout Butler Octavia’s novel Kindred‚ there are several examples of female characters who tend to challenge women’s traditional roles. Dana is the main character who should be considered a dynamo considering how independent she is during the point of time she travels to (the 1800s). Women have been seen for a long time as not being independent because they depend on their husbands to support them while they stay at home taking care of the children‚ I do not
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In Robert Butler’s short story “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot” Butler shows how difficult it is to relate to someone you love in a different form of an animal. Butler earned his degrees at Northwestern University and at the University of Iowa. He also published ten novels and five short stories. Readers often get different sides or views of a character or characters and establishes their point of them. Using the critical strategy‚ reader response‚ and the literary element‚ point of view
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