Otherness

of the value of "otherness." I must admit, after the 9/11 tragedy I honestly had none or very little consideration for the “other”. Certainly a little shameful for not expressing or at least having an understanding of this habit of the heart, especially after watching the TED video of Phyllis Rodriguez and Aicha el-Wafi. I was also much younger then, with less experience and understanding of many of life's valuable lessons of understanding and appreciating the value of “otherness”. I had a…

have a deeper exploration of the ideas they present. Barry Morris’ “Frontier colonialism as a culture of terror” explores the often-difficult relationship between the settler and the indigenous inhabitants, by examining the fictional realities and “otherness” created around the Aboriginal people by the settlers. Secondly, Russell McGregor’s “Assimilationists Contest Assimilation: TGH Strehlow and AP Elkin on Aboriginal Policy” explores the purpose and effects of the early, and failed…

In the Dracula novel, the otherness has been largely specifically attributed to the entire figure of the count. The Vampire has been so much differently interpreted as representing what the nineteenth-century white male saw as others figure out as threatening the status quo of the…

abject/non-subject, she represents the fall from the grace of the kind of white, imperial, and middle-class femininity materialized by Eyre’s narrative. Antoinette is the descent from the colonial subject, and hence deserves her condemnation and Otherness. Paradoxically, Bertha functions as a post-colonial Eve in a maze-like garden of Eden in Rhys’s WSS, a narrative where descent, ascent, and subjective grace are re-cast through Bertha. Indeed, Bertha’s narrative of descent, as re-counted by…

will discuss the ways in which the roles of Other are negotiated by Jane Eyre and Jane in Jane Eyre, and “The Yellow Wallpaper” respectively. I will argue that Jane Eyre resists otherness more effectively than Jane by asserting her independence through challenging and then leaving Rochester, in comparison Jane resists otherness, but fails to separate herself from the Self, which leads to further disempowerment.…

is really old. From a religious point of view to modern times, food is in every culture and social circle. Bread varies from shape and usage all over the world. A loaf is considered a myth, included in folklore, a symbol in many religions and is otherness to another social status. These keywords all have a similar sense of (old age) mystical/importance feeling. For something so simple, it has great significance to every soul on this earth. In connection to bread, we shall connect the keywords…

human fights against a race of terrifying vampires. However what makes the book different to most is it doesn't glorify Neville's hatred towards the vampires, instead the author uses Neville's interaction with the vampires to study the concept of "otherness" - the way one group interacts with so called "others". As I Am Legend delves deeper into the story it shows that there are no real heroes or villains just groups, each of which fears and are equally "other" to each other. At the end of I…

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) involves the themes of the supernatural, the melancholy of characters, violence, and mystery. These features allow us to locate the novel in a large tradition of Gothic narrative. Following Sigmund Freud’s essay The Uncanny, the unheimlich purports that “something should be frightening because it is unknown and unfamiliar. … Something must be added to the novel and the unfamiliar if it is to become uncanny” (Freud 124-125). The Gothic novel, then, is…

the other.” Our otherness isn 't defined by how we “pretend to be” no matter how how anyone tries to be anything else their color, race, language, or even preferences can cause what is known as otherness. Madrid wrote this to represent his experiences as well as others when it comes to being ‘the other’. Experiences such as being the center of attention in a bad way, or being neglected completely, are only two cases that I personally know of, however it is certain that otherness can cause pain…

The Tragedy of Othello, the moor of Venice, otherwise known as Othello, is a Shakespearean tragedy believed to be written in 1603. The quarto edition of the play first appeared in 1622; the version printed in the 1623 Folio edition is around 160 lines longer than the quarto and has over a thousand words differences in the writing. Othello revolves around the four central characters: the titular character Othello, his wife Desdemona, the main antagonist Iago and his lieutenant Cassio. Due to the…