Binary opposition

This state is called intersex. According to evolutionary biologist Joan Roughgarden, more than two genders exist outside the male-female binary system in hundreds of species in the animal kingdom. For example, red deer has one female and two male genders with one male gender having antlers and the other without. Another example is the fish species bluegills which has four distinct gender…

'Black Identity' Through the existing binary opposition, the idea of 'black identity' was established. The meaning of 'black' does not exclusively mean the darkness of one's skin, it includes the surrounding negative connotations and preconceived ideas about one's race too. Physical appearance became a symbol for the meaning of inferiority as it was the most outward indication of the race who one belonged to. Therefore, as Franz Fanon mentioned, people were judged “irrespective of their social…

point, in the course of researching for this paper, the author typed in the word “Transgender” into the search engine Google. The second website that came up was isna.org, or The Intersex Society of North America, a comprehensive website on all non-binary forms of gender and sex, including terminology, differences therein, and links to other websites on the…

doing so, Notley challenges the traditional form of an epic poem through her use of a female hero and a series of lyric poems that create an epic poem. Here, we see two sets of binaries: female hero/male hero and lyric poem/epic poem. Additionally, these binaries are a function of hierarchy. By resisting traditional binaries, Notley shows equality through an open space for equal heterogeneous forms. In contrast, Yukio Mishima’s The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea expresses roles of glory…

Feminism is a political movement working to accomplish specific goals. The movement’s goal is to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social rights for women that are equal to that of men by ways of political and social movements and beliefs held by women. Implied through these goals is access to enough information to enable women to make responsible choices about their lives. Feminism fights for equal opportunities for women in educations, employment, and equal…

Narrative structure is an important aspect of a film and its analysis provides answers to many questions concerning the story and the plot. First of all, there are three kinds of narratives described in Screen Media Analyzing Film and Television: fragmented narratives, multi-strand narratives and classical narration (157). The last type can be found in a war film Platoon directed by Oliver Stone. By definition, classical narration consists of a protagonist, whose actions can be seen as they…

In his poem “The Wood-Pile”, Robert Frost reveals humanity's thirst for knowledge, yet fear in the unknown. He unravels this through a series of binary diction, vivid details, and images of life(or the lack of life). A man goes on a lonely stroll in a frozen swamp. He is has a fear of what is ahead and says, “I will turn back from here. No, I will go on farther and we shall see(2-3).” There is a noticeable shift from the pronoun “I” to the pronoun “we”. This signifies the speaker’s belief in a…

He is rejecting the fact that the state systems in Egypt fail to pay a living wage for their employees. He has rigid expectations that exist within a binary of right or wrong, regardless of circumstances. Darwish begins dismissing Jane when he claims her explanation is “an excuse”, which is a poor or inadequate example of. He dismisses the greedy state system as corrupt but a working-class citizen at…

In visual culture, the male gaze is described as a point of view in which the viewer registers their surroundings in the perspective of a heterosexual male. More often than not, in this point of view, women are seen as objects of sexual pleasure aimed specifically for the male viewer. Media uses the male gaze to entice the viewer into believing that they are in control of whatever situation is being presented. In this response, I will be discussing an advertisement from The Competition Issue:…

exemplifies the glorification of aspects of modern society that would be considered incomprehensible or unacceptable, which encourages the reader to think about the values of a ‘more advanced’ society in comparison to their own. Both glorification and binary opposition are strong tools in the novelist’s repertoire to encourage the reader to reflect upon the values and beliefs of contemporary…