Power Of Love In The Tempest By Octavia Butler

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Kindred Hear my soul speak. The very instant that I saw you did, My heart fly to your service, there resides, To make me slave to it, and for your sake, Am I this patient log-man.-- William Shakespeare, "The Tempest | Act 3, Scene 1”. Shakespeare unknowing rose the question if the power of love can make you a slave to it. Through the reading of Kindred by Octavia Butler we find the protagonist Dana a black woman time traveler unknowingly summon by the agonist a distant white relative in a slave owning family young Master Rufe. Although, we are aware that slavery brings cruelty can it also bloom love that overcomes cruelty? Is there a kind of love that can exist and be bound between a slave owner and black women from the future? We will examine and define the love by its greek terms of Agape, Phileo, Storge, Eros to discover and compare degree in which these forms of love apply to Dana and Rufe in Kindred. …show more content…

Unconditional love as human being as a whole even your enemy. You may not like someone, you decide to love them just being a part of humanity. This kind of love is all about sacrifice as well as giving and expecting nothing in return. The river: Before me was a wide tranquil river, and near the middle of that river was a child splashing, screaming … Drowning! I reacted to the child in trouble. Later I could ask questions, try to find out where I was, what had happened. Now I went to help the child”( Butler,13). The choices of this first encounter shows how natural Agape love was applied by Dana this unconditional love place her in adrenaline rushed rescue of a child even before getting her barring herself in an unfamiliar

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