“The Dominicanization of the border was under way- any Dominican who considered himself a patriot and a real man had to grab one of those filthy, no good, miserable wretches who had taken the food off [their] plates, (Vega, 214).” The execution was considered to be a cleansing from the blackness that surrounded the Dominican nation. Ironically enough, Trujillo was the son of a Dominican man of Spanish descent and mother of Haitian ancestry. But he suppressed this side of known ancestry. “ While he regarded Dominicans as righteous Catholics with European ancestry, he despised Haitians for their apparent leanings towards African voodoo and other unfavorable cultural practices (Thomas, Wrestling).” It wasn't only the color of the skin that Trujillo believed contaminated his people, but also Haitians religion and customs were seen as a threat to the Dominican culture. In the "The Day It All Happened", Vega introduced Filemon Jr, who is from the Dominican Republic and had successfully immigrated to Puerto Rico.
Trinculo takes a closer look, and observes that he is ‘legged like a man’ with ‘fins like arms’, so ha concludes that he must be ‘an islander that hath lately suffered by a thunderbolt’. This suggests that he looks deformed, and ill. Staphano also thinks that caliban is a diseased monster because is ‘a monster of this isle who hath, is i take it, got an ague’. Caliban behaves negatively, but also positively. In the negative aspect of his behaviour, when he’s angry he curses Prospero using aspects of nature which means that he must be a spirit of the earth such as ‘toads, bats, beetles, light on you’ and also ‘blister you all over’ and ‘the red plague rid you’. He is not only violent in his speech, but in his actions.
Medea, married to Jason though, is from a country named Colchis, which is located in Eastern coast of Black Sea and the residents there are commonly viewed as barbarians by Western world. So basically, Medea comes from Asia. Losing her soul in love, it may be said that she sacrifices her all for Jason. Not only does she betray her own country, but also she kills her blood brother cruelly. Nonetheless, asymmetric and unbalanced backgrounds of the couple would inevitably put this marriage into slough, since the play has mentioned Medea’s extraction again and again.
For example Brabantio says to Othello “You’re something to fear, not to love. It’s obvious to everyone that you’ve tricked her, drugged her, or kidnapped her… Arrest this man as a practitioner of black magic”. Othello can’t be with Desdemona because he is not of the same skin color according to Brabantio. His race has a great amount of influence on how people see Othello. The way Iago and Brabantio see him as a witch or a beast.
This pie chart can be similar to the Haitian Revolution because the Haitian slaves revolted against their masters because of bad treatment which was a social condition of this revolution. The political cartoon shows that despite the first and second estates power they were scared of the third estate because they were overly outnumbered (Doc. 3). This document also lead to the French Revolution, and also can be compared to the Haitian Revolution. It can be related to the Haitian Revolution because the masters of the slaves and political figures were scared to get overthrown by the slaves, they also treated them harshly, and they arrested Toussaint L'Ouverture who was the leader of the revolt and freed slaves.
Caliban is first introduced to the audience as a slave to Prospero, ‘Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself’. Straightaway the audience is presented with an image of Caliban as an evil slave. Prosperos introduction tells us a lot about Caliban from the start; the reader will wonder why Caliban is a slave to Prospero and also could feel sympathy for Caliban because of the aggressive language Prospero is using towards him. But as the play develops it becomes clear that Caliban wasn’t originally a slave and he only was a slave as a punishment for attempting to rape Prospero’s daughter Miranda. This shows that Caliban revels in his plans to dishonour Miranda and he seems satisfied with his attempt.
How does Shakespeare introduce the main themes of The Tempest in act 1? Shakespeare’s characterisation in the play plays a pivotal role in encapsulating the ever so controversial themes The Tempest effusively conveys. The era of the play is the Jacobean and all such Jacobean context creates the foundation on which the play is written and hence viewed due to the inextricable link between politics and theatre. Polysemy is another pivotal area in which Shakespeare fashions this play. Upon his characterisation of the protagonist, Prospero, Shakespeare leaves various parallels between Prospero and himself through Prospero’s creation of the enigma that is the tempest.
In “My First Conk”, Malcolm X assured that black people were being brainwashed to believe that they actually were inferior to white people, thus they conked their hair; which was a hair straightener gel made from lye popular among African-American men from the 1920s to the 1960s. They were, essentially, giving up what they were fighting for as far as civil rights- the right to be who they were and also be accepted by society. Therefore, the conking of their hair was hypocrisy and a contradiction of morals and values. Blind conformity caused them to disregard their strongest beliefs which should be the most powerful driving forces in all lives. Especially in today's society, there is a dire over emphasis of the media.
It also shows that they were sentenced to at birth because of the color of their skin. It even examines the stability, and instability of the human mind, for people from all different ethnicities such as white and black. There is also pain that this novel expresses that proves to be unbearable to such crimes are not socially accepted in today's society, but are they? The Heart of Darkness was written during the time of British imperialism and extreme exploitation of Africans in the Congo. It also shows Conrad's feelings toward the treatment of Africans which aren’t easily understood.
The other characters liken Richard “to wolves, to spiders, toads, or any creeping venom’d thing that lives.” Shakespeare portrays Richard as a monster and a beast. Richard’s monstrosity is symbolized in his appearance, which is “so lamely and unfashionable that dogs bark at” him, rather than accepting him as a fellow beast. Shakespeare portrays Richard as the devil, which