Tess of the d’Urbervilles Tess of the d’Urbervilles(New York:Chelsea House,1987) ,a world famous book,is written by Thomas Hardy.Hardy is an accomplished writer who strongly believes in the idea of fatalism and it’s this belief that inspires Hardy to write this wonderful work of literature. This book is a story of tragedy and the protagonist Tess is really a wretched and sad girl.Almost every reader will take pity on Tess and feel depressed about Tess’s unfortunate life.Tess is a beautiful girl living with her impoverished family in the village of Marlott.The condition of extreme poverty of family makes Tess live in high pressure.To support the family,Tess takes her mother’s advice and goes to a so called d’Urberville family for help,which becomes the source of Tess’s tragedy.She is seduced by Alec d’Urberville and from then on her life totally changes from this loss of innocence.Her husband Clare leaves away from her when he knows the truth.Tess muders Alec in order to live with Clare when he comes back from Brizal.Tess is arrested.What a poor woman!The man she deeply loves comes back finally,but they can no longer get together.I can’t help crying after reading Tess’s hard life.I hope that the novel will have a happy ending,but novel is written to reflect true life of society and therefore Tess inevitably suffers a lot and eventually can’t stay with the person she loves. Why does the bad often ruin the good?Why is beautiful Tess damaged by ugliness?In my opinion,there are several aspects lead to Tess’s tragedy.First,it’s because of women’s low place in the society.Women are treated unfairly.Girl should be hard-working,loyal in people’s mind.Once she is seduced,she will not be respected.But little do people care about man’s character.Second,Tess’s attitude to love also affects the result of her life.Because of her honesty,she experiences aparting from her
Social position of women play a massive role in this novel, and one such women that tolerates such violence is Celie. Celie is the protagonist in The Color Purple, who is left alone without a mother and a father who uses her as a mean for sexual pleasure. After Celie’s mother dies, Pa marries another women, around Celie’s age. Celie is oppressed continuously by her father. One such example is shown at the start of her fifth letter to God, “He beat me today cause he say I winked at a boy in church.” (p7) This incident shows us that women are molested for the smallest of reasons just so the men could show their authority over them.
To Kill a Mockingbird, published during the Civil Right’s Movement, illustrates the pitiful life of Mayella Ewell, a character worthy of compassion, despite her immoral actions. Despite living in a large household, Mayella Ewell, portrayed as a lonely character, has no one to depend on other than herself. As Atticus conveyed to Mayella Ewell that “A
Both authors illustrate the idea that because of oppression the victim develops a self-hatred that enforces a desire to change. Within The Bluest Eye, Morrison utilizes the Breedlove family as a prime example of people who desire to be anyone but themselves. Cholly, Pauline, Sammy and Pecola Breedlove have all experienced different devastating and painful moments in their life, but they all are unified by one idea: they are ugly. As the narrator explains, “you looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction.
Toni Morrison’s Beloved is an unconventional post modern narrative that essentially captures the atrocious truths of slavery, the Middle Passage and the psychological ailments, extrinsic and intrinsic, that bind an ex-slave after “freedom.” At the root, perpetual rape, inhumane abuse and the seizure of children and love ones for profitable gain, as Morrison proves, spawns a tree of psychological trauma. Reminiscent of the “chokecherry tree” that is on Sethe’s back; this trauma is a terrible scar, a remnant, of the slave past. Morrison uses the traumatic experiences, of several characters such as Sethe’s mother, Nan, and Baby Suggs, to give the reader a broad examination of the tragedy of chattel slavery and the vile fruit that trauma bears. It is important for us to understand that the trauma Morrison speaks of stems rebellion; however, most importantly and central to the text, memory repression in its victims. Morrison utilizes Beloved, the two-year old daughter Sethe sacrificed for the “greater good” of freedom, as an embodiment of trauma, but also the collective memory of the Middle Passage.
In the novel, The Bluest Eyes, by Toni Morrison, there are a lot of different issues that arise. The one thing that stood out the most to me was the sort of racism that goes both ways, throughout the book. Toni Morrison brings out the racism from the 1950’s and shows that "It is the blackness that accounts for, that creates, the vacuum edged with distaste in white eyes" Pecola, driven to want blue eyes by her observations that is is those with blue who receive and thus "deserve" love, eventually loses her mind after she experiences repeated violence at home, at school, and on the street. These violences are all rooted in racism. Pecola begins to believe the lie of racism: that to be black is to be "ugly," undeserving, and unloved.
All of my books are basically romances; they’re stories about reconnecting with community”(Williams). The disorders in life that The Narrator and Dr. Jekyll experience on the edge of being inhuman, “My Characters are not people. They are machines that do a job. They are machines designed to destroy themselves” (Williams). Through the minds of Palahniuk and Stevenson a common ground is reached in the two books Fight Club and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; both the narrator and Dr. Jekyll create their own misfortune in trying to fix the problems of the world, or better yet what they perceive the problems to be.
Page 13 When we say an injustice such as working to exhaustion is structural, we are saying that the workers are not simply victims of mean bosses, although this may be true. Page 14 Standard conceptions of legal and moral responsibility appear to require that we trace a direct relationship between the action of an identifiable person or group and a harm. Although structural processes that produce injustice result from the actions of many persons and the policies of many organizations, in most cases it is not possible to trace which specific actions of which specific agents cause which specific parts of the structural processes or their outcomes. Page 14 By proposing a social connection model of responsibility, I do not aim to replace or reject the liability model of responsibility. The foregoing considerations suggest, however, that where there is structural social injustice, a liability model is not sufficient for assigning responsibility.
“124 was spiteful, filled with baby venom”. This pain and sadness is constant throughout the novel. By focusing on the grief of a slave, Morrison conveys right away that slavery brought such pain and sadness to African Americans. Later on in the novel Sethe reveals her experiences as a slave through a series of flashbacks, including her lashings and beatings, which are described in graphic detail much like in the traditional slave narratives. This pain and grief is only heightened throughout Beloved as Morrison attempts to keep these things in the readers mind throughout the novel.
Slavery was nothing to be adored because it only wrought bitterness for then slaved individuals. A simple prognosis is found in the words of the great poetic philosopher and journalist, José Martí, in one of his writings, “Hatred, slavery's inevitable after math”. The Hinterlands of West Africa was where it started, and it followed throughwith a lot of suffering and peril before finally ending in catastrophe for the planters’ andinitial exultation for the slaves. This research will educate the reader about the conditionsunder which slaves produced the various cash crops in the British West Indies. INTRODUCTION The horrible treatments of slaves will be forever engraved in the history books.The obvious effects have been past down to generations and have been expressed throughracist evil behaviors.