Towards dystopia.” The presence of slavery increasingly becomes the haunting other on the surface of the American dream”. Discuss with reference to Douglass.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” (The Charters of freedom)
In these words are collected the ideals and the rights that represent the core of the US identity. The pursuit of happiness triggers another important notion which is the “dream”. By dream we understand that territory where there is social order, where people can achieve, based on their abilities, all their purposes regardless of their birth or social …show more content…
The slaveholders had ingenious strategies in order to transform black people into brutes being regarded only as property and not as citizens. Since birth, the black families were separated in order to eliminate all those family connections between them. Keeping them ignorant was another way of control. This will maintain slaves under moral and knowledge darkness and at the end they will be non sufficient beings. The system aimed as well to destroy all those values of friendship and solidarity among slaves and an example of this kind is well illustrated in the book when Douglass organized to escape with other fellows but they were betrayed by one of them. The treatment of the slaves as propriety was another tool of slavery to destroy all human attitudes of the slaves. Apart from these brutal strategies slaveholders tried to give the impression of benevolence by giving the false and corrupt idea of freedom letting the slave drink alcohol for example. This suggests how slavery uses sometimes wicked and false values in order to hunt the real dream principles and the dream itself. Another false idea that the institution used to justify itself was that of a merciful family based on the feudal patriarchal model. Frederick Douglass heavily criticized this opinion saying that slaves weren’t part of the family because they were regarded as property and not as citizens and they hadn’t …show more content…
Slavery didn’t affect only the victims of it but also those who supported it by corrupting their moral attitudes and mining the real meaning of the American dream. The “Narrative” shows us how slaves were kept into a deceiving, dystopian world from where apparently there was no escape. Only those individuals who managed to achieve the realization of their inner self being able to understand that they were first of all human beings understood that the reality in which they lived was as a corrupted version of the real one. The real freedom will be attained only when the self will be educated and will be resurrected from the grave of
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” (The Charters of freedom)
In these words are collected the ideals and the rights that represent the core of the US identity. The pursuit of happiness triggers another important notion which is the “dream”. By dream we understand that territory where there is social order, where people can achieve, based on their abilities, all their purposes regardless of their birth or social …show more content…
The slaveholders had ingenious strategies in order to transform black people into brutes being regarded only as property and not as citizens. Since birth, the black families were separated in order to eliminate all those family connections between them. Keeping them ignorant was another way of control. This will maintain slaves under moral and knowledge darkness and at the end they will be non sufficient beings. The system aimed as well to destroy all those values of friendship and solidarity among slaves and an example of this kind is well illustrated in the book when Douglass organized to escape with other fellows but they were betrayed by one of them. The treatment of the slaves as propriety was another tool of slavery to destroy all human attitudes of the slaves. Apart from these brutal strategies slaveholders tried to give the impression of benevolence by giving the false and corrupt idea of freedom letting the slave drink alcohol for example. This suggests how slavery uses sometimes wicked and false values in order to hunt the real dream principles and the dream itself. Another false idea that the institution used to justify itself was that of a merciful family based on the feudal patriarchal model. Frederick Douglass heavily criticized this opinion saying that slaves weren’t part of the family because they were regarded as property and not as citizens and they hadn’t …show more content…
Slavery didn’t affect only the victims of it but also those who supported it by corrupting their moral attitudes and mining the real meaning of the American dream. The “Narrative” shows us how slaves were kept into a deceiving, dystopian world from where apparently there was no escape. Only those individuals who managed to achieve the realization of their inner self being able to understand that they were first of all human beings understood that the reality in which they lived was as a corrupted version of the real one. The real freedom will be attained only when the self will be educated and will be resurrected from the grave of