Education
Power is productive it is a means of producing the truth and it cannot be conceived of as separate from knowledge (Braham & Janes, 2002). It is well documented that education is power and if one is educated chances of progressing up the income hierarchy are higher there by over coming the income inequality. Thus to come back to our societies reflected in medium, the apartheid and the Jim Crow systems forced blacks to attend different schools from the whites. The black schools were deprived of resources as compared to the white school this was an intentional way to make black societies develop an anti-school subculture hence under achieve economically. The term subculture refers to a group of people who share same values, norms …show more content…
Poets and other artist to communicate a moral message to the viewer or reader of that artwork have used allegories for centuries. Arguably (Johnston, 1998) allegory is a fiction, almost invariably a story, which is designed, first and foremost, to illustrate a coherent doctrine, which exists outside the fiction. Thus, the story and everything in it bear an immediate and point-by-point reference to a very specific aspect of the controlling doctrine, which the fiction is illustrating. (Johnston, 1998). Allegory can be used to draw attention to and protest the shortcomings of an existing doctrine, and at the same time highlight a possible new doctrine or belief system that could replace the dominant one. This is form of protects can be identified in both artworks. Sarafina the film portrays the hopes, dreams, fears and experiences of the new generation of black youth. Contrary the film also portrays how the apartheid system kept the youth in bondage through its institutions. The police were tasked to issue the youth are not tough what will make them class conscious. Similarly Strange Fruit is about the lynching of black people particularly in Southern America thus the literal meaning. Allegory functions as a tool of instruction and education by engaging actively with an audience through the use of figurative devices (animals with human qualities) and other metaphoric strategies - these are utilized to deliver a secondary meaning to the reader of a text, together with the literal or surface meaning. The 'Strange Fruit ' narrates the story of racism as an allegory filled with symbolism e.g. black people are symbolised as the strange fruit and he image of “Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze / Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees“ meanwhile in Sarafina film the train symbolises an active economy as the train was seen constantly through out the film
Power is productive it is a means of producing the truth and it cannot be conceived of as separate from knowledge (Braham & Janes, 2002). It is well documented that education is power and if one is educated chances of progressing up the income hierarchy are higher there by over coming the income inequality. Thus to come back to our societies reflected in medium, the apartheid and the Jim Crow systems forced blacks to attend different schools from the whites. The black schools were deprived of resources as compared to the white school this was an intentional way to make black societies develop an anti-school subculture hence under achieve economically. The term subculture refers to a group of people who share same values, norms …show more content…
Poets and other artist to communicate a moral message to the viewer or reader of that artwork have used allegories for centuries. Arguably (Johnston, 1998) allegory is a fiction, almost invariably a story, which is designed, first and foremost, to illustrate a coherent doctrine, which exists outside the fiction. Thus, the story and everything in it bear an immediate and point-by-point reference to a very specific aspect of the controlling doctrine, which the fiction is illustrating. (Johnston, 1998). Allegory can be used to draw attention to and protest the shortcomings of an existing doctrine, and at the same time highlight a possible new doctrine or belief system that could replace the dominant one. This is form of protects can be identified in both artworks. Sarafina the film portrays the hopes, dreams, fears and experiences of the new generation of black youth. Contrary the film also portrays how the apartheid system kept the youth in bondage through its institutions. The police were tasked to issue the youth are not tough what will make them class conscious. Similarly Strange Fruit is about the lynching of black people particularly in Southern America thus the literal meaning. Allegory functions as a tool of instruction and education by engaging actively with an audience through the use of figurative devices (animals with human qualities) and other metaphoric strategies - these are utilized to deliver a secondary meaning to the reader of a text, together with the literal or surface meaning. The 'Strange Fruit ' narrates the story of racism as an allegory filled with symbolism e.g. black people are symbolised as the strange fruit and he image of “Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze / Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees“ meanwhile in Sarafina film the train symbolises an active economy as the train was seen constantly through out the film