The White Man's Burden

they fight against the White Witch to fulfil a prophecy and return summer to Narnia. Whilst teaching a lesson was not Lewis’s main intention, he still wanted the children who read his book to be able to learn something from the story. The main lesson that Lewis was trying to convey was about forgiveness, which comes up multiple times throughout the novel. The main example of this is seen when Edmund betrays his siblings to side with the White Witch. However, when the White Witch is about to kill…

overall amount of violence as a result. Imperative to consider, also, is that slave labor and raw materials from these colonized territories helped Europe beautify itself. Europe would not hold its head high without exploitation of these acts of ‘White Man’s Burden” therefore portraying Europe as a “creation of the Third…

In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck often struggles to do the ‘right thing,’ especially concerning his relationship with Jim. He is caught between what he feels and what society conditions him to do. Though he views himself as a rebel against and an outsider from society, Huck is ultimately not able to rise above its influence. This weakness reveals itself in his inability to resist the influence of characters who uphold the code of society, such as Tom, Miss Watson, and the…

Wanting to have control over some aspect of his life is one of the main reasons Jude marries Nel, “So it was rage, rage and a determination to take on a man’s role anyhow that made him press Nel about settling down. He needed some of his appetites filled, some posture of adulthood recognized, but mostly he wanted someone to care about his hurt, to care very deeply,” (Morrison 82). Revealed in this quote…

stock conventions of the suffering enslaved woman” (Yaszek 1056). When Butler takes us into the past, she reconstructs the memories of these forgotten women. Even after society begins to let African-American tell their stories, we only see the black man’s side. We never hear about women, who have lost all but one of their children to slavery. We never see written accounts of the sexual abuse that women like Tess had to accept, or the pain that Alice and her mother felt as they watched a member…

The Concept of Ghosts as Portrayed in The Piano Lesson The Piano Lesson, a play written by August Wilson, portrays a family that has been living within the presence of various ghosts and spirits. The play hones in on the Charles family living in Pittsburgh during the depression. Doaker, Berniece and Maretha are surprised with a visit from Bernice’s brother Boy Willie and his partner Lymon. In the house which Berniece, Doaker and Maretha live, there is a piano; a family heirloom that has…

My group decided to use our two-day workshop to address two aspects of identity that we collectively felt were objectively important and interesting to explore with our group of attendees, race and gender/sexuality. We felt that the workshop should be open to anyone who wishes to attend, but we will be advertising it on college campuses to students as well as faculty. The topic seems daunting at first glance; the idea that attending this workshop would mean understanding all aspects of race and…

Colonization of Africa The European settlers forcibly seized Africans land, resources and plantation. European created myth of “white man’s burden” is to show themselves as enlightened and as someone who is above common natives whereas Africans as savage, uncivilized and barbarians. But it only reveals one fact that how dehumanizing colonialism was in terms of creating hierarchy by categorizing human being. European imperialist mission to dominate the colonized land was based on…

Naturally the past seems to fade from the forefront of our minds as new times encroach. All that remain are brief fragments of a previous time. Langston Hughes’ “The Weary Blues”, and Robert Frost’s “Directive”, offer a limbo between the past and the present. Modernity is inevitable, yet the past still lingers in the shadows. While their styles may differ, both poems provide a vague depiction of times lost. By doing so, they provide no sufficient solution to issue, but merely offer a momentary…

At the time most people only wore black, gray, white, or tan. Since the “A” was so prominent, almost everyone knew what it represented. Hester eventually learned to deal with this burden by becoming a seamstress and entering a field of needle work. Doing needlework helped her to forget about the troubles in her life much in the way a good book or movie can make a person…