Butler

Gender Trouble, Judith Butler explores the idea of are we assigned our gender at birth? or do we simply perform one based on the values we have learned? Butler argues sex and gender are not the same thing. In the distinction, sex refers to the biological male or female category defined by our internal and external reproductive organs and chromosomes while gender refers to socially created roles, feelings, and behaviors deemed appropriate for men and women by society. Butler would say that gender…

Gender In the reading From Undoing Gender by Judith Butler has some points about what is gender and how people define gender. Which gender is defined whether we have a vagina or a penis though she talks about what happened with a boy/girl name Brenda which her classmates made fun of and also threaten her because she acted too much like a boy for example when they caught her peeing standing up. Brenda is now named David and is more like a boy which Butler tells the story of David and everything…

In this essay we will be talking about the theme of racism. In the novel Lilith’s Brood by Octavia Butler there were two kinds of people. One group of people in this novel were an alien race known as the Oankali. The other group of people were our good friends, the humans. The Oankali people are able to read human DNA. Using this ability they can see that the human race will not change there ways on how the rule on earth. The Oankali are holding down the humans without giving them a chance to…

Having enough power over others may feel like an exhilarating enjoyment, but after a while, those people controlled may expunge that person from their life. The novel, Kindred by Octavia Butler, shows the abuse of power, and how society in the 1700s reacts with it. Dana, a young independent woman, transports to the past to save her ancestor, Rufus, from life threatening situations. She 's in the 1700s in Maryland, Dana converts into a slave throughout the novel, the independent woman changed by…

imbalance leads directly to inequality and systemic oppression such as racism and sexism. The negative effect of power has plagued humanity throughout history and are still present in the modern world, as is exemplified in the novel Kindred by Octavia Butler.…

society, many writers were disconnecting themselves from the commonplace culture. This created an estranged perspective for many writers, which would be an inherent feature of Modernist Literature. The “outsider” perspective can be seen in William Butler Yeats’ Sailing to Byzantium and D.H. Lawrence’s Snake. In both of these works the chief characters struggle with a perceived alien existence, but these…

Judith Butler describes how the problem with violence is that it destroys the lives of humans, and it is sometimes not recognized because of pre-determined concepts of who is human. In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” Gloria Anzaldua explains how Mexicans are excluded because of how they speak both English and Spanish. Media outlets mold our views by putting emphasis on the topics they find important while ignoring other topics and us as teenagers don’t even recognize what is happening. Butler…

The Butler, a movie first released in 2013, reveals the many tribulations encountered by African Americans in the 1900’s. In this movie we follow the character Cecil, as he moves through life and goes through many different experiences. A central topic discussed in the movie is the on-going segregation between the whites and the blacks. This film also entails many topics previously discussed through the year including segregation, the Ku Klux Klan, and other different ways of discrimination…

Ireland had a plethora of existing literature before its nationalist movement, however, the majority of their literature was centered on British prejudiced. A unified movement to create a uniquely Irish dramatic form had not yet been attempted. William Butler Yeats saw this as his opportunity to develop his paragon of Irish theatre that could unify Ireland through literature. Yeats alleged that in order to create a mature society, Ireland would have to differentiate itself and take a stand in…

William Butler Yeats use of pastoral poetry in his poems Lake Isle of Innisfree and Easter 1916 his use of this type descriptive language evokes the reader to imagine a rural Irish life rich in folklore and fairytales. Yeats’ also urges his reader to envision life in the picturesque world, he used this style of writing to bring about a feeling of nationalism but with the preservation of Irish history. In the poem Lake Isle of Innisfree, Yeats uses pastoral imagery to describe the Western…