The concept of oppression has been used by governments to limit the rights and freedoms of inhabitants that reside within its borders. Throughout history oppressed peoples have had to question whether to suffer under the bonds of tyranny or rise up against their oppressors. Nonviolent resistance has recently been added to acquiescence and physical violence as the optimal coping strategy when dealing with oppression. This essay explores each coping strategy in detail and offers the argument that each strategy is subjective to the circumstances that allow oppressors to impose impractical and immoral sanctions on a just society. Shakespeare's famous soliloquy from Hamlet asks "whether tis' nobler in the mind to suffer the slings
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In her book a character, Mitra, is quoted as saying "I can't live with this constant fear… having to worry all the time about the way I dress or walk"(326). In turn, the epilogue finds this character, as well as many others, as having immigrated to America. By conforming to an oppressive auto-theocratic government by leaving her country her actions justified her oppressors as being morally correct. This form of Acquiescence, immigration, is seen when public protest is sanctioned by acts of physical violence as well as prolonged periods of incarceration. In Nafisi's case it can be said that acquiescence was the ideal method of resisting …show more content…
Through nonviolent resistance, King held that it "seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposite's acquiescence and violence while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both"(472). What king decided on was that physical violence was wrong, morally, and acquiescence was wrong, ethically. But what King did not recognize was that in certain geographic locations there are illegitimate governments, known as police states, in which any form of civil disobedience, violent or not, is punishable by death. What King did was not invariably consent that nonviolent resistance was the optimal way to meet oppression. Instead he argued Non-violent resistance as a benevolent method of resisting oppressors that is not unparalleled by the other coping
In her book a character, Mitra, is quoted as saying "I can't live with this constant fear… having to worry all the time about the way I dress or walk"(326). In turn, the epilogue finds this character, as well as many others, as having immigrated to America. By conforming to an oppressive auto-theocratic government by leaving her country her actions justified her oppressors as being morally correct. This form of Acquiescence, immigration, is seen when public protest is sanctioned by acts of physical violence as well as prolonged periods of incarceration. In Nafisi's case it can be said that acquiescence was the ideal method of resisting …show more content…
Through nonviolent resistance, King held that it "seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposite's acquiescence and violence while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both"(472). What king decided on was that physical violence was wrong, morally, and acquiescence was wrong, ethically. But what King did not recognize was that in certain geographic locations there are illegitimate governments, known as police states, in which any form of civil disobedience, violent or not, is punishable by death. What King did was not invariably consent that nonviolent resistance was the optimal way to meet oppression. Instead he argued Non-violent resistance as a benevolent method of resisting oppressors that is not unparalleled by the other coping