Butler

Judith Butler is a feminist who focuses her philosophical work on gender theory within the community. When talking about gender she brings up many different theories within her works. A couple ways Butler thinks is within the LGBT community and how those people come about. She talks about how she truly believe that gender is different than sexuality. Lastly she speaks about how the way we porta yourself is how we see our own sexuality or how we should view it instead of the communal ways. Butler…

The Book of Martha by Marleen S. Barr seems to honor Butler for her extraordinary literature as the protagonist of the novel mirrors Butler (McIntyre et al. 440). Other authors such as Jewell Gomez, Tananarive Dave, Nalo Hopkinson, Nnendi Okorafo-Mbachu, among others stand alongside Octavia E. Butler as they unapologetically transforms the normative notions of the black community, specifically the black women (Morris 162). The…

According to Butler, the theory of performativity tries to explain that gender is socially constructed in the sense that people learn the set of behaviours, attitudes and roles that have been assigned by religion, medical science, and other forms of authority to each biological sex, male or female. In this manner, people imitate these characteristics, fitting them into their personalities and thus come to believe that gender is a natural consequence to their sex (Butler 1990).Thus performativity…

morally right, ethically right, or right by society’s standards. A person normally would not steal from another person because that goes against their morals. Sometimes though, people have to go against all their rational reasoning to survive. Octavia Butler shows this many times throughout her novel Kindred with the main character Dana Franklin. In the story, Dana is forced to travel back in time to the 1800s in the South. She soon realizes every time she is forced to go back in time it is to…

Kindred CRR: Question 4 In the early antebellum South, there was a clear power structure ranging from white, property owning males down to black, enslaved women. In the novel “Kindred” by Octavia Butler, Black females are treated subhuman and sexually abused by whites on the plantation. The protagonist, Dana, is involved in these situations but is not complicit, for she has very little power to stop the actions of whites in the antebellum South. Throughout the novel, Dana time travels back and…

Ambivalent Ambiguity Dawn by science-fiction novelist Octavia Butler defies the constraints of Earth, moving human issues of identity and individuality into the unknown frontier of outer space. Butler begins the novel in the aftermath of the desolation of the human species, presenting the reader with the few people saved—maybe imprisoned—by the Oankali, an extraterrestrial race. The human based necessity to retain individualism and the rejection of the new liberal mechanics of the foreign race…

Three Messages From Sailing to Byzantium The author of Sailing to Byzantium, William Butler Yeats was one of the most prolific poets of his day. He was from Ireland, but he moved to England once he figured out that England was the place to be. W.B. Yeats used his fantastic skills to write some of the best poetry out there. Adrian Paterson from The Irish Times states, “Yeats today is respected rather than loved.” This is an incredible feat to accomplish, to be so loved that you are respected is…

comes to the characters in a film, there are some other staples as well. One of these such staples is that there needs to be a solid leader in the film, one who can keep the story moving or put the main character back on track. In Lee Daniel’s “The Butler”, however, we see multiple leaders over the course of the movie, all showing different tactics of leadership that are stated in Barry Posner and James Kouzes’ book “The Leadership Challenge”. There are many different types of leadership that…

is the analysis of William Butler Yeats’ love poem, another is the analysis of Anthony Ma’s love poem (SHEN, 2016, par. 1). I hope through the revision, the analysis could be concise with fewer and shorter words but clearly conveys my meaning. Additionally, the passages did not have a strong opening and mostly was to analyse the word choice and rhetorical appeals. Therefore,…

However, there are a few premises to her theory that should be noted. The first is how Butler argues gender is separate from sex and sexuality. In fact, Butler goes as far as to say “gender is the cultural meaning that the sexed body assumes” (Butler, Gender, pg. 6). In other words, Butler is arguing gender exists because society has placed one’s biological sex on a pedestal of importance. A second premise to Butler’s gender performativity…