Whereas Confucius would focus more on flourishing relationships and being respectful and loving all. Americans definitely have a problem with pushing our ideals onto other countries. We think that everyone wants to live like we do, so we trying to conform their ideas. But there is a disconnect between the Chinese and Americans because we do not understand the traditions of Confucianism that are the basis of the Chinese culture. Americans like to think of themselves as individuals that rely solely on themselves instead of others.
This quote pulls at the heart strings of what Japanese-Americans faced in the aftermath of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The book Stubborn Twig by Lauren Kessler, gives a unique insight into the lives of one Japanese-American family during World War II. Kessler’s book also raises some very distinctive questions about America’s history. One such question is whether the Japanese-American internment camps were the result of deep seeded racism or simply war hysteria at an all-time high? Through the book it is clear that it was a large mixture of both racism and war hysteria, but I think it is more apparent that this was caused by racism that was given an excuse to be blatantly obvious.
According to Du Bois the prejudices of white people elicit “self-questioning, self-criticism, and lowering of ideals” among black people. The internalization of anti-black sentiment from the outside world thus begins to shape the black American experience. Through the concept double consciousness DuBois becomes better able to explore the social problems he studied in his earlier work “The Philadelphia Negro”. Double consciousness also creates an element of conflict within the black American, as they struggle (often unsuccessfully) to reconcile their identity as a black person and as an American citizen. Dubois cites the example of the black artisan in “The Souls of Black Folk”.
A Cosmopolitan Controversy Patriotism is devotion, love and support to ones country. Cosmopolitanism is freedom from provincial or national ideas. People have different feelings and devotions surrounding these two ideas, making for a very interesting debate. Richard Rorty argues that, “Most of us, despite our feelings about government, identify with our countries.” In Rorty’s script he makes sure to highlight his point that Americans need Patriotism to accurately judge our communities and ourselves. Fixed the sentence structure of the last two sentences to make it easier to read and so that the reader won’t have to go bad and read it again to understand.
How can Marxist criticism open up different interpretations of Celie’s change of status in The Colour Purple? The Colour Purple could be associated with many different Marxist ideas, for example, through the idea of freewill. Through the idea of setting in the novel we are able to see how low class Celie and her family are and how little freewill they have. Many people within her society are treated as slaves to white people and not worthy of an education of a job. This could be linked to the Marxist idea that would believe that Celie’s circumstances with her father and lack of education is a result of the class she is in, Marxists would believe that her oppression is down to the class she was born into.
The tone of Miller’s stage directions and dialogue ranges from sincere to parodying, but, in general, the treatment is tender, though at times brutally honest, towards the protagonist’s plight. The ‘American Dream’, ‘abandonment’ and ‘betrayal’ also work as important themes within the play. Many critics describe Death of a Salesman as the first great American tragedy, and Miller gained eminence as a man who understood the deep essence of the United States. After World War II, the United States faced profound and irreconcilable domestic tensions and contradictions. Uneasy with this American milieu of denial and discord, a new generation of artists and writers influenced by existentialist philosophy and the hypocritical postwar condition took up arms in a battle for self-realization and expression of personal meaning.
In addition, many Caucasians including the female protagonists in both texts felt some kind of racial guilt for what transpired in the past. In Disgrace and A Blade of Grass the female characters who reflect this racial guilt experience a loss, which leads to a tense friendship with a black African character that is resolved only to a degree by the novel’s conclusion. Firstly, Marit in A Blade of Grass and Lucy in Disgrace feel racial guilt and experience a loss. To begin, Marit believes that “blacks deserve fair treatment and are not receiving it” (Desoto, 276), and Lucy recounts a story where “blacks were beaten and evicted from their homes” which is “inhumane” (Coetzee, 124). In addition, both characters endure a loss: Marit’s husband, Ben, is killed by a land mine that he runs over while driving, and Lucy is raped by several black African males.
After love circles with Gatsby and his cousin Daisy, lastly Jordan and gossip resulting with killings end up discussed over his experience resulting going back east. Through reading the book, it shows how the experience of selfness and World War 1 made the high social optimistic over their lives. It showed how they wanted to forget the past and build themselves back into their social class. Also, by the experience of Daisy and Jordan treatment from the men in the stories allows the reader to see how time still hasn’t changed how relationships work with men. This novel is a great novel to give an example on how reality is to people even the high class.
2nd Major Point b. Elizabeth has first impressions of many characters in the book. When she first meets Mr. Darcy she thinks that he is a rude and arrogant person, but she learns that he is just a man who is proud of himself and she changes her thoughts of him. c. When Elizabeth first meets Mr. Wickham she likes him because he is very handsome. Mr. Wickham tells her how Mr. Darcy is a bad person and she believes everything he tells her about him because she likes him. She later finds that Mr. Wickham is not who she think he is.
Unfair domination in Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga Throughout Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel Nervous conditions (1988) one is aware of the oppression the female characters face due to patriarchy and the effects of colonialism such as poverty and illiteracy. Though the male characters also face repression due to colonialism, one is more aware of the sufferings of the female characters as patriarchy is more dominant in the novel. This essay attempts to identify the unfair conditions that two characters, Nyasha and Mr Matimba face and discuss how they deal with these conditions. Like the other female characters, Nyasha faces gender repression due to patriarchy and racial repression due to colonialism. Having seen a different lifestyle to the one in Rhodesia when her family was staying in England, her nervous condition becomes even more emphasised as she is aware of her native condition even more than the others.