The most evident trope at play in Hillman’s excerpts was the frequent mention of seeds. Seeds represent birth, they represent the building of something new. Although Hillman talks about “terminator seeds” in a negative aspect, she makes a mention to word-seeds which really exemplifies the trope of seeds creating new growth. When you plant a seed, you have the ability to create something new, something that the world has not yet seen. In “Coda: Suggested Activism for Endangered Seeds”, Hillman gives us the bold statement of “The word-seeds will outlast you, you / know that___”, to show that the seeds we plant today have the ability to affect the world after we are long gone. To me, these “word-seeds” Hillman speaks about seem like her explain …show more content…
to us why she writes. To inspire change that people will still read about even after she is in the ground. Seeds are potential energy. When they are released they have the ability to create things much larger than themselves and I believe that this trope reflects the environmental activism that has the ability to sprout from just one person’s ideas. Since this prompt was meant to emphasize the sense of community, I find it fitting that the word “we” is used numerous times throughout Hillman’s writing.
In her essay “A Brutal Encounter Recollected in Tranquility”, she uses the bonding word four times in the first paragraph alone. “We” is synonymous with inclusion, which is dire when trying to create community action in which power in numbers is needed. Just the use of the simple, two-letter word was enough to bring me into the moment of that protest. “We” includes me. Hillman also uses the word “we” as a stepping stone to make an allusion to an ant colony working together. As she writes, “Looking into their eyes, we think it’s possible to reach them [the police]. We reach out with my feelers”. My feelers. Feelers=Ants. Ants=Coordinated Action. Brenda Hillman=Coordinated Action. Ants are small, they are the presumed little guy. Easily squashed. But ants are resilient. They have a way of communication that leads to quick mobilization. Drop a piece of bread on the ground and in twenty minutes the whole colony will have it surrounded. Ants have power in numbers to tackle a task, that is what is needed when dealing with these oppressive issues. We, like the ants must be the underdogs, the ones who combine our power as we unite to address the problems that seem too big to handle alone. By using this trope, Hillman presents a way of coming together that mimics a species in which there is much success. Protestors want this
outcome.
The ants of the colony can be seen as beings who have had their “individuality and personhood” trampled because of the grasshop...
...ant power struggles and Equiano is in the middle as he notices the problems and discourses.
What is a healthy confusion? Does the work produce a mix of feelings? Curiosity and interest? Pleasure and anxiety? One work comes to mind, Beloved. In the novel, Beloved, Morrison creates a healthy confusion in readers by including the stream of consciousness and developing Beloved as a character to support the theme “one’s past actions and memories may have a significant effect on their future actions”.
Family and Friendship are the two things that define who we are. These two things are what we belong to and they help create our identity. In Beloved and A Prayer for Owen Meany this is evident because our main characters are who they are because of the loved ones surrounding them. We see it with Sethe and the amount of love she has for her family that is so strong that she is willing to kill her own kids. We also see it with John Wheelwright and how the death of his mother at the hands of his best friend Owen has affected him but also changed him for the better because he has Owen by his side who will never let anything bad happen to him. The importance of family and friendship is seen within the slaves in Beloved and with John and Dan Needham
From the beginning, Beloved focuses on the import of memory and history. Sethe struggles daily with the haunting legacy of slavery, in the form of her threatening memories and also in the form of her daughter’s aggressive ghost. For Sethe, the present is mostly a struggle to beat back the past, because the memories of her daughter’s death and the experiences at Sweet Home are too painful for her to recall consciously. But Sethe’s repression is problematic, because the absence of history and memory inhibits the construction of a stable identity. Even Sethe’s hard-won freedom is threatened by her inability to confront her prior life. Paul D’s arrival gives Sethe the opportunity and the impetus to finally come to terms with her painful life history.
...be remembered as individuals acting not as a group. Lee uses this group to show that everyone is willing to be a part of a group regardless of how much harm it causes, but the second it becomes and individual matter they all turn away and let the legal process take place.
They understand that the tortured nation is falling under conquerors. However, they also realize, “ In the Congo, it seems the land owns the people” (Kingsolver, 283). The Congo is a force that can take down any dissension. If someone messes with the everyday life of the Congo by not following its procedures, they will be doomed by the rebuttle the Congo administers. The citizens occupying the land know how to live in a calm agreement with it and respect nature. Nevertheless, nature can always disrupt the peace with malevolent actions such as the invasion of the ants. The ants, a symbol of the power of the jungle, are enough to make the citizens run out to the river for
The Theme of Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare In the play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ many aspects of love are explored. In this essay I will be exploring how Shakespeare conveys the theme of love including illusion, confusion, escape, harmony and lust. Historically, it has been suggested that ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ was written for a wedding, signifying the importance of love in this play, however there is no real evidence to prove this myth. Rather, the Lord Chamberlain’s men performed ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ on the London stage.
Who Is Beloved by God? After reading the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison, many readers may find it helpful. themselves asking who Beloved really was. There are basically three answers that would satisfy this question that she is the actual baby.
In Romeo and Juliet and Othello, love is portrayed as a complex and imperfect emotion,
Pure and Foolish Love in Othello Othello, the central character of William Shakespeare's play, is an excellent leader but a poor reasoner and foolish lover. The tragedy of Othello' is largely due to Othello's personality and life experience. Othello believes himself to be loved and respected by everyone around him as most people refer to him as the "noble General Othello". Othello, after realizing his tragic mistake of murdering his innocent wife, Desdemona, claims he "loved not wisely, but too well". This is an honest reflection of himself as his love was true and pure but also foolish.
In William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he strides to portray the tides of love! But even for Shakespeare, It’s quite hard to grasp the understanding of love, for there is always arising complications, that get in the way of lustful love; Throughout the play, Shakespeare, undermines the notion that true love ever existed.
In William Shakespeare's 18th Sonnet he's comparing the object of his affection to a summer day. Throughout the sonnet, Shakespeare utilizes different elements found only during summer to describe the youth's beauty. His intrigue is expressed to us vividly through the use of metaphors. Shakespeare also uses imagery so that you may share in his experience.
...our differences, or view them as causes for separation and suspicion” but use them to unite us together to make a change.
Throughout all four texts there is common theme of Love. This however can be argued is a love that is destructive as one thing all the texts have in common is destruction. Both Shakespeare and Browning use it as the driving force behind their writing. Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare is a play about a man who struggles between his ambitions, and the sense of right and wrong. Love is demonstrated in this poem through the relationship of Macbeth and his wife. It is destructive force in this instant because I believe that it’s the love or lack of love that Macbeth has for his wife which drives them apart, and Lady Macbeth eventually to her death bed. Initially they are quite close with Lady Macbeth eager to share in her husband's triumphs. In the letter which he sends her, in which she reads in Act 1 scene 5 he addresses her as his 'dearest partner of greatness'. ‘Dearest and partner’ suggests that in their relationship they have a sense of equality and intimacy which is unusual as in the Shakespearean Era women were viewed as submissive to their husbands. When he says ‘greatness’ it shows that they are capable of doing countless things together.