Binary opposition

the journal article Going Against the Flow: Kate Grenville’s The Secret River and Colonialism’s Structuring Oppositions written by Anouk Lang she states, “many critics in postcolonial studies and critical race studies have observed, binaries such as savage/civilised, physical/rational, and animal/human” (Lang 4) within The Secret River. Furthermore, Grenville’s book is full of other binaries or key postcolonial concepts such as, the savage versus the civilised, cultural and the…

A Socratic dialogue reveals how tenable and untenable philosophy can be. Throughout Plato’s, Republic, this can be seen to be the undeniable truth, whereby the main character Socrates reveals the truth behind being just, and the qualities of a just soul through constant debate style conversations. The idea of self-control is a constant issue of discussion as he determines how complex the soul can be. Socrates argument on the soul determining the necessity of having a superior and inferior part…

such as two-spirit Native Americans, calali and calabai of Indonesia, and the hijra of India show gender variation outside of a binary western model, and all cultures are found to thrive just as well as western society. Gender variance exists even inside of western culture though is oppressed (transgender, nonbinary, and agender individuals) due to the strict imposed binary. A transgender female is a female because she feels like a female, thus making genitalia irrelevant. This argument also…

Example of dualistic structures prevalent in patriarchal society include culture/nature, mind/body, male/female, subject/object. This type of binary opposition leads to an either/or categorization, which, thus, allows for the creation of a distinctive oppressor as separate from the oppressed. For instance, culture is opposed to nature. Culture is more highly valued than nature. As a result, culture has the capability of dominating and exploiting nature for its owThis article reexamines the…

The world had witnessed the duality of the West versus the rest, and binary oppositions; Master/Slave, Self/Other. The gaze through which European colonial authorities see other colonized countries was contemptuous gaze. They reduced their humanity and they claimed to be the civilizing people. This is just what generally colonial…

William (A Knight’s Tale). A villain archetype is, “A character whose main function is to go to any extent to oppose the hero or whom the hero must annihilate in order to bring justice (“Literary Devices – Archetype”).” Adhemar produces the binary opposition in the sense of good versus evil, which is a mere obstacle William must face on his journey to…

Social perspective is a key tool used to identify and recognize conformities as well as discrepancies within a culture. Society enforces actions within different cultures that influence their actions, opinions, and beliefs. First, in Chapter Eleven, Pierre Bourdieu examines different perspectives and aesthetic tastes in photography. Second, in Chapter Thirty-two, Mary Ann Doane elaborates on racial and sexual differences in the cinema. Finally, a journal by Felicia Chan, and Valentina Vitali,…

interestingly, postage stamps. Prisoners, who carved imprints out of leather and smuggled them to the outside, produced some of these stamps. The stamps constructed and represented a different history of Poland and located Solidarity within that history, in opposition, as Evans put it, “to the official histories produced by the Communist Party, which had claimed the exclusive right to compose history.” As foreign objects and foreign account of history were imported by means elucidated…

The word ‘Queer’ particularizes members of gender and sexual minorities who are not heteronormative , heterosexual nor gender-binary. These individuals live their lives outside of socially conventional heteronormative constructs that dictate ones actions and dress code in accordance to his or her accredited gender (Nolan 2013:1). Someone who is recognized as queer is born with a biological sex, either intersexed, male, or female; however it is possible that such an individual might not identify…

In this essay, I will be summarizing James Fujitani's argument regarding the rejection of the Ming with the Portuguese effort to establish diplomatic relations in 1519. Back in 1517, the Portuguese fleet arrived off the coast of Guangzhou. This was a great moment of symbolic importance to the Portuguese, with making the first official contact between the East Asia and Europe of the early modern period. However, just a few years later, in 1521, these relations broke down by many false rumor…