It Is Not About Feminism. It Is About Freedom. Octavia Butler is the famous writer and the author of the fantasy genre of African American race. She became the first black woman who gained worldwide fame in science fiction. Kindred was published in 1979. Kindred is considered as the most famous and the best book of Butler’s works. It describes a strong black female protagonist who makes time travel for the sake of Rufus’ (white man) salvation. The main character is Dana. She experiences what it feels
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worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them‚ but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity”. Meaning‚ it is our heartlessness that allows us to feel indifference towards others; it steals the harmony in the world. Octavia Butler allows us to explore this cruelty in her science fiction novel Kindred. The novel is based on an average black woman Dana. Dana is called back in time to the antebellum south to save her ancestors. The author uses a variety of literary devices
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ROLE OF A BUTLER Throughout history‚ the word “butler” has always been associated with service. The dictionary defines a butler as "The principal manservant of a household." This definition remains true even when the butler is employed in a hotel. When a guest checks in and has occupied his suite‚ then this becomes his household. The butler caring for him becomes the "manager" of the suite (household) and in effect an employee of the guest. Services butlers offer differ from place to place‚ but their
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The Butler Lumber Company 1) Is Butler Lumber a profitable business? 2) Why does Mr. Butler have to borrow so much money to support their business? 3) Prepare pro forma income statement and balance sheet. Is Mr Buttler’s estimate loan requirement correct? What amount will he need to finance the expected sales increase? 4) As his financial advisor‚ would you support this expansion? As his banker‚ would you approve the loan and under what conditions? 1) The Butler Lumber Company has positive
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Judith Butler and Performativity for Beginners (mostly in her own words) Film 165A 1. A central concept of the theory is that your gender is constructed through your own repetitive performance of gender. This is related to the idea that discourse creates subject positions for your self to occupy—linguistic structures construct the self. The structure or discourse of gender for Butler‚ however‚ is bodily and nonverbal. Butler’s theory does not accept stable and coherent gender identity. Gender
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Considering Noah as a Lacanian ‘Other’ Amidst an Alien Invasion Octavia Butler’s “Amnesty” follows post-abductee Noah in her attempts to bridge the two diverse populations (humans and the aliens referred to as “Communities”) in their challenge to decide whether or not they can cooperatively and symbiotically co-exist. In Noah’s descriptions of her experiences with the Communities she reveals the similarities shared in both humans and the Communities‚ as well as the severe activities sometimes
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Story Kindred tells the story of a 1970s African American woman traveling through time to an 1815 slave plantation. The author‚ Octavia Butler‚ portrays how the main character‚ Dana‚ uses resistance to survive in both time periods. She uses Dana to address the social and cultural issues of the Antebellum South and post-Civil Rights Movement. As African American woman‚ Butler was subjected to racism and oppression in her life‚ and translated her experiences into Dana’s character. The setting switches
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classic like Animal Farm. These days dystopias have become so complex and realistic but they still share similar characteristics of dystopias written in the past. A dystopia is a society that is made up of humans suffering and living in oppression. On the other hand‚ a utopia is a society where everything is perfect : government is stable‚ people have rights‚ and there are laws benefiting the common people. The problem is that utopias can become dystopias when corruption occurs. This happens in
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Do you know what a true utopia is? What’s the difference between a utopia and a dystopia? In Fahrenheit 451‚ Ray Bradbury wrote about how a utopia‚ became a dystopia really fast. There are many different ideas that can be viewed differently and how every society has distinct views. Some ideas like that are the basics that we would not think is viewed differently like family and emotions. First of all family can be viewed in many ways. In Fahrenheit 451 the family´s do not love each other and are
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The novel Brave New World‚ by Aldous Huxley‚ portrays a dystopian society that completely limits the citizen’s lifestyle. Like many other dystopian societies‚ it is under the guise of being utopian. The residents are born into a permanent caste system‚ all the citizens are at the absolute mercy of 10 World Controllers‚ and they are conditioned and brainwashed into emotionless cyborgs. The readers are introduced to a strict caste system early on in the novel which outlines the conditioning for each
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