Binary opposition

because Americans have been lead to believe the system of justice we have actually does judge morality and thus disagreeing with this the system is challenging morality. Arguing morality is an offense in itself because people strongly believe in the binary of morality. Again, justice is a human construct in this case because what is just or not is decided solely by the majority - a group that creates the very morals of those within it by allowing them to feel heard and while constricting the…

gender generally revolve around the premise that gender is not an intrinsic aspect of a person. Rather that it is something which has come about through the formation of societal ideas surrounding what it means to be a man or a woman. Arguments in opposition to this may draw their reasoning from biological differences between the male and female sexes as evidence of a natural divide between men and women, which could promote the attribution of genders to certain traits. Coinciding with this, the…

rituals. He admired the church’s amenities, dungeons, and mystical symbol and outfit. These fascination then influenced Robert’s work of art. So, instead of having a religious sense in art he is more into sadomasochism. Patti and Robert are like binary opposition of one another. Patti as a child is considered as a bad girl, but trying to be a good girl. She used to have factory job, and give birth out of wedlock. However, later in her life she become this some sort of a saint in her art. On the…

Racism has long been present in American children sitcoms. Sitcoms usually depict the racial minority characters in a stereotypical way as they occupy more subordinate roles, including Asian-Americans who are usually portrayed as the model minority. However, since the NAACP (National Association of the Advancement of Colored People) established a bureau that monitors the minorities’ representation on American media in 2002, there has been a development on the portrayal of minorities (NAACP,…

3.2. The Second Paradigm: The Dialogic The second interrelated principle of Postcolonial eco-poetics is the dialogic paradigm developed and introduced by Mikhail Bakhtin. The dialogic paradigm seeks to unmask and unsettle dominant discourses in colonial and anthropocentric discourses. Bakhtin’s affiliation and appropriation to both postcolonialism and eco-poetics has been recently acknowledged by scholars and critics. Bakhtin is cited to lend prestige and weight to the theoretical sphere of…

War. One single event such as Easter 1916 can change the world even if the Easter Rising was a failure in itself, it started to lead the way for independence. The two events: the rape and Easter 1916 are both points of no-return. The poem is full of binary concepts, indeed right from the beginning, he associates the brutaly of the event with the past participle “caressed” with is usually associated with acts of tenderness and not acts of violence. He also associated the powerful divine “the…

In regards to gender, the “nature versus nurture” debate refers the opposition between a biologically-based conception and one grounded in social psychology. On the “nature” side, gender is a matter of a person 's physiological makeup. There are varying accounts of what body parts specifically are indicative of gender, with gonads, chromosomes, and reproductive organs being among the contenders for criterion of gender. Regardless, on this view gender and sex are correlated, and “male” and…

“Confusyd in hirself and hir owyn unstabylnes:” Plurality, Bricolage, and Infinite Regress in The Book of Margery Kempe There is a plurality of spiritual signifiers in The Book of Margery Kempe. We all know of Kempe’s “gift of tears,” of her ecstatic visions, her commitment to wearing white and creating a chaste marriage for herself. However irritating these signifiers may be, at first read the semiotics appear to be stable. Kempe cries readily when free association brings to mind the earthly…

Mahirshi Vibhandakan and bringing him to Chambapuri to perform a mahayagam to bring rain. Vaisali is a mythical figure and myths are the most powerful tools used by patriarchy to subordinate women. Myths attribute to women a gender identity built on the binary logic and a sexual identity submerged within the phallic system. From the feminist perspective, the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata depict woman as a non-entity, totally subservient to man. The epic provides a…

There is an opposition between intellectuals, artists and religious characters. Yet another opposition that works between the parent generation and their children. The difference in class and education also plays a significant role among the migrants. However some educated characters have been assimilated into British culture while the uneducated or less educated are represented as deeply confused (p. 140-161). For example the character of Kaukab and Shamas well defines the binaries work in the…