They’re white aren’t they?" Cecil understands that it is wrong to persecute people as long as they are white. This again shows the racist society these Americans were brought up in as it was wrong to persecute a white person because they were human but fine to persecute a black person because they were not human. In the more modern years of the twenty-first century, segregation is becoming less and less present in our society and it is now a ridiculous and inhumane
The Cynics believed that the very essence of civilization is corrupt, and so lived austere, unconventional lives. They distrusted luxury as a “hook” that always brought complications and frustration in to people’s lives. Happiness could only come from self-discipline
Neal seems like a cruel evil man which is the way the Aboriginals would probably have viewed Whites.Neal believes blacks are worthless, he said that: "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" at Act Four Scene Four, instead of trying to satifsify Aboriginals and help them. He is trying to harass them and make them ignorance, so they will not become the treat to him. Mr. Neal resents Sister Eileen’s input "bloody do-gooders" and threatens her when she speaks out "I could arrange a transfer for you to another settlement; perhaps Mulla Bulla on the edge of the Gibson Desert”. He is using his power to bend people to his will, the same way he uses his power to force young girls into sleeping with him. His cruel attitude which some Whites had makes it was acceptable and reasonable to use power to control the people who he thinks worthless or weak.
Individualism is a key aspect in both novels, most prevalently in the protagonist of each story. The presence of it maintains a positive aura in the story, and its gradual diminishment drains the aura out eventually, leaving the feeling of a grim ending. This is done by the relevant authorities in both novels – Jack’s “tribe” from Lord of the Flies and “the Party” from 1984 – who have many similarities. They are both totalitarian (since in Lord of the Flies becoming a “savage” in the tribe changes relevant individual aspects), they both gain power from collectivism and they both use violence to enforce their systems. Consequently the very nature of both authorities demands collective conformity, and this is the driving force for the abolishment of individualism.
In the Cornel West article "Nihilism in Black America" he argues that the dilemma of African Americans is nihilism. This is somewhat parallel to W.E.B Dubois's Talented Tenth speech in 1903. Nihilism, according to West, is the lived experience of coping with a life of horrifying meaninglessness, hopelessness, and lovelessness. African Americans are threatened by the lack of hope and the “absence of meaning” in their lives. Dubois's philosophy not only shows nihilism in the black race during this era but it also shows the same lack of progression in the black community in 2011.
He argued that “modern civilization hit ignorance of the masses through the means of popular education. What has it done but turn ignorance into anarchy, socialism, strikes, hatred between poor and rich, and universal discontent”(68). Johnson knows that violence cannot be the answer to solve America’s problems, yet he witnesses men lynched and African Americans stripped of their feelings of safety and power. The method of dealing this this thread was dramatized in Griffith’s film, written in Johnson’s book and all too real in
Q: How is individualism suppressed in the world of anthem? Rand gives us a picture of a collective society that is similar in context to early 1900’s Soviet Union, in this society its considered evil to be alone, assuming A curse is the reason. In the world of Anthe, individual efforts is never recognized, not encouraged, and looked negatively upon, this type of society were you are not allowed the desire to be alone, suppresses the individual for the sake of the common good. The world of anthem was suppressing equality 7-2521 when they did not let him in the house of scholars, such dream is controlled by elites in collective societies, but in others were individualism rises, opportunities has to be equal so only the people who deserved
Creon quotes, “Then get you down thither, and love, if you must love, the dead! No woman, while I live, shall order me.” (Sophocles 20). Creon feels that he is very much above females. Because he is a king and a man, his mindset of arrogance and prejudice is very dense. He is very open about his sexism and ignorantly acts on it.
The Black scholars were angry and insisted there was other documentation proposing intelligence was not inherent from one or both parents so there would be no benefit to apply these criteria to describe African – American behavior. African – American scholars worried close relationships with in the predominately white community of social scientists and prevailing forces already biased against African – American people limited the scope of the theorists by preconceived beliefs, providing skewed theories and data that provided negative and misrepresented the behavior of African -Americans. Theoretical Value This article goes on explain flawed was data collected because the white behaviorists accompanied by highly conservative black professions approached the black community to conducted research. Researchers broke agreements and rules when using human subjects in the black community. The data collected was used to develop erroneous theories between blacks and whites in the areas of biogenetics, cognitive and intelligence.
So here is kind of contradictory that even though he hates the British Empire, but he still work for them, and these action has reflect the definition of ambivalence. * The reason why I choose “D. antipathy” is because base on the same quote I found in the paragraph 2, he directly blame all the environment he had. He hate the people, hate his imperial country Britain, and he job. So I use to think that since he has such dislike about everything, apathy should be the correct answer.