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Betrayal is hurting someone that trusts you, or showing something such as desire that is not real. Moliere uses Orgon in Tartuffe to show betrayal. Throughout the play Orgon is betrayed by Tartuffe in a variety of ways. Orgon is loyal and kind to Tartuffe by offering him friendship, shelter, and even goes as far as to offer him his daughters hand in marriage. Tartuffe fakes his friendship with Orgon for personal gain such as when he tries to take his property and send him to jail. A person’s…

In town of Akron, Ohio in the year 1851, Sojourner Truth gave a moving speech in front of the Women’s Convention. In the speech, Sojourner Truth voices her thoughts on the discrimination of women, especially as a black woman. Throughout the story, Sojourner Truth uses personal experiences and allusion to convey her message. Her speech makes a strong connection to the audience to show that racism and sexism is happening everywhere, though men are denying it. In the speech, Sojourner Truth…

Monstrosity isn’t always what is perceived on the outside. Becoming one with an animal, having animalistic tendencies, or an alter ego of a beast can be considered monstrous to society. In the poem “Why do you keep putting animals in your poems”, the man depicted in the poem is learning from the animals in the poem. He also realizes that the animalistic way of life is much simpler than the life of a human. In “Now You’re An Animal” by Mark Doty the professor goes into a studio to get his picture…

that women would be better suited. As part of her stand, she argued that the Creator creates men and women as equal. Parents were seen as superiors to their children and were in control. Parents looked out for the interests of their children and gave control where they see fit, such as to teachers or employers. Beecher believed women should marry because they want to marry and be on equal footing with their spouse. They should not be treated as slaves or asked to obey their husbands. She…

women’s rights were presented to be not equal to men and limited by a series of events. The main women characters in the novel, Mariam and Laila rights were not equal to the husband they shared, Rasheed. Mariam and Laila had limited rights, which means that Rasheed held most of their power. Nana, Mariam’s mom rights were presented to me not equal to a man because of the blame she was forced to take. Also Aziza, Raheed’s and Laila’s daughter was not treated equal to her younger brother because of…

women are not equal…

Part 1: In a minimum of 550 words, discuss how the HUMA 2319 course has altered your consciousness about the conflicts and contradictions of our culture. This semester was very interesting and different in my opinion. First of all, this course was my last class with honors and I think it was very interesting class, we had so much interesting topics to discuss with. This class was different compare other honor’s classes. For example, in this class we are not only studied hard, but also had…

Kurt Vonnegut 's short story Harrison Bergeron is a satirical sci-fi story about the dim side of a perfectly equal American culture. Vonnegut 's decision of "uniformities" is vital to the story 's importance by concentrating on the subjective sorts of balance and downplaying the goal ones, he ridicules not the perfection of fairness itself, but rather the American culture 's defective idea of equality. Can an equivalent society genuinely exist? The story, Harrison Bergeron gives one point of…

despite some minor issues with it. Socrates first proves that there is no example of absolute equality in one’s own experience. To do this Socrates and his interlocutors first have to accept that absolute equality, the standard by which all other ‘equal’ objects can be measured, does exist and is known. The question then arises as to whether there is an example of this absolute equality in observation…

If men are equal, as Jean-Jacques Rousseau claims in the preface to his discourse on inequality (40), why do some men live in large lavish houses, while others struggle on the street, unsure of their next meal? The distance between the rich and the poor has been increasing steadily over the last decade, but in reality it has been expanding ever since man separated from Rousseau’s original state of nature. The state of nature is different than that which is natural, and within Rousseau’s state of…