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Individualism Versus Collectivism
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Individuals may or may not go through a situation where they would enjoy nothing more than to yell, scream, or even fight another person for something that he or she said or did. It is challenging to hold back such intense emotions, but it is the wise thing to do in order to avoid further conflict. In Carolyn Kizer’s “Bitch”, the speaker demonstrates holding back her emotions in front of her ex-lover. It was tough for her to do so because she wanted him to understand how she felt. Overall, Kizer establishes the importance of being the better person by holding back one’s feelings in order to avoid further consequences. She illustrates this through portraying the speaker’s true emotions, revealing information of her ex-lover, and showing how the speaker carries herself on the outside. Primarily, Carolyn Kizer utilizes a speaker in her poem …show more content…
in order to benefit the development of the theme.
In poetry, the speaker is not necessarily the author but is the voice of the poem that conveys his or her situations or emotions. In the beginning of the poem, the speaker meets her ex lover “after all these years” (Kizer line 1). Kizer uses an extended metaphor of the speaker’s inner self as a dog, more specifically, a female dog, which explains the title, “Bitch”. The speaker’s inner bitch reveals emotions of being wounded, furious, and affectionate towards her former lover all at once. The speaker is miserable in how she has to hold back the dog. She says, “as I drag you off by the scruff” (Line 33). This gives the reader the imagery of a dog being pulled away from something the dog aspired to do, illustrating the miserable and wounded tone. The speaker is
also livid through her bitch “growling”, “barking hysterically”, and the speaker threatening to pull the “choke-chain” (Lines 2,6,14). These lines exemplify strong imagery of the speaker pulling hard on her dog’s leash while the dog is snarling and trying to inch closer to the man. She says, “down girl, keep your distance” (Lines 8). However, the speaker is also shown to be adoring and loyal. She includes a glimpse of the past saying, “how she lay at his feet and looked up adoringly” (Line 20). With this the reader is able to imagine a dog lying in front of its owner looking up and wagging its tail, signifying love and happiness. Kizer develops the speaker’s inner self in this way in pursuance of revealing that her feelings are so intense that it would be challenging to keep them from anybody. Subsequently, the speaker reveals that her former lover was distant and only loved her when he wanted to. She does this in order to show how her emotions came about. To begin, she provides a flashback with imagery from when they were together. The speaker says, “how she came running/ each evening, when she heard his step” (Lines 18,19). Typically dogs show their loyalty by greeting their owners at the door, which is what the speaker is indicating here. The man was “bored with her devotion” and sent her away (Line 22). In a relationship with true love, a partner should never get bored with his or her partner’s love and commitment. Then, the speaker says he would only love her “when he’d had a good day, or a couple of drinks” (Line 25). The reader can confirm that this man was a horrible partner through the imagery of an owner mistreating his dog. Kizer also utilizes the oxymoron’s “careless kindnesses” and “casual cruelties” to further emphasize the awful relationship they had. The speaker’s former lover only provided her with kindness and love that had no true meaning or emotion behind it. Also, he was careless to offer such an impression; he didn’t realize the consequences of his actions. His “casual” deceiving overall caused the speaker’s devastation. Kizer develops this egocentric jerk in order to show how the speaker’s emotions came about and how he deserves a good reprimand. Lastly, the speaker shows that she keeps her composure and has a respectable conversation with the man who broke her heart despite her inner feelings. This directly reflects the theme of being the better person by suppressing emotions to prevent any more conflict. As any acquaintances would start a conversation, the speaker says, “nice to meet you” (Line 5). If she displayed her actual feelings, the speaker may have either ignored this man completely or started off their conversation by screaming at him, but instead she relayed an appropriate greeting. Next, her inner bitch starts to spark up inside her, but she reminds herself that “he isn’t the enemy now, / where are your manners” (Lines 7,8). The speaker doesn’t mention what her ex-lover says, but she continues to talk politely and say, “I’m just fine” and “it’s nice to know that you are doing so well” (Lines 15,28). To finish off their brief conversation, she even says, “give my regards to your wife”, but in reality she most likely wishes the worst for her (Line 32). Ultimately, she stays calm and collected the entire time, not revealing any of her true emotions to her former lover. Overall, Carolyn Kizer builds the theme of being the better person by not relaying emotions that could cause greater complications. She develops this through the speaker’s inner and outer expressions and the personality of her ex-lover. Also, Kizer’s use of an extended metaphor, imagery, and oxymoron’s further benefits the development of the theme. In the poem, the speaker becomes the better person when she meets her former significant other, who treated her in all the wrong ways. Instead of letting her inner “bitch” loose, she survives a decent conversation with him. It can be tough for an individual to hold back such strong emotions because he or she wants the other person to know how they truly feel or how dreadful they are. Nonetheless, this can lead to further conflicts and consequences; therefore, the clever thing to do in the end is to exercise control and be the better person.
For Kingston, The Woman Warrior signifies more than five chapters of talk-stories synthesized together. Within each chapter of the memoirs, Kingston engraves the method in which she undertook to discover her discrete voice. The culture clash between her mother and Kingston accumulated her struggles and insecurities, resulting in Kingston’s climax during her tirade. However, what Kingston accentuates the most is that the a breakthrough from silence requires one to reject a society’s
A man named Bilal Nasir Khan once said, “The most painful goodbyes are the ones never said and never explained”. In the poem “Changes” by D. Ginette Clarke, the speaker is eager to understand the reasoning behind the end of his friendship with someone who he seems to have been very close with. As one reads through the poem, the strong connection that the persona feels between him and his friend becomes quite obvious. Granting the persona’s endeavour to express his feelings towards his failed friendship in a calm manner, he essentially comes off as a curious, eager, and desperate man. Clarke represents these specific characteristics of the speaker through the use of repetition, word choice, and punctuation.
In the “So I Ain’t No Good Girl” short story, Sharon Flake writes a story about the relationship and life of a girl and a boy named Raheem. They have been together for two years now. Even though they’ve been together, the characters have tons of conflicts and are very doubting of each other. The girl wants to be herself, but people say ruthless things about her. “She doesn’t want to be like them good girls, plain and pitiful.” She has a very strong and rude personality. At the bus stop and even on the bus, she yells out her anger, not caring about others. While waiting at the bus stop, she frightens other girls with her tone of voice. Flake uses realistic, descripted details and point of view to portray the character
“ Stay Strong, Stand up, Have a voice”- Shawn Johnson. This quote epitomizes this story perfectly. There are characters that demonstrate this lead in literature. In the short story, “The Truth About Sharks” Beth, is introduced as the dynamic character. Beth from The Truth About Sharks by Joan Bauer, wakes up and is in a very lazy, tired and cranky mood. She doesn’t want to do anything her mom asks/wants her to. So, instead she went shopping for new pants. Beth goes to Michelle Gail’s and meets Hannah the sales person. She starts trying things on, Beth leaves her stuff in the changing room and walks over to the sales rack by the elevator and gets falsely accused for stealing the pants she had on. Madge P. Groton took her to her office and calls for backup and Beth is later greeted by Officer Brenneman who takes her to the police station. On their way there Beth asks for a chance to prove herself with a witness she has back at the store. Her witness Hannah who luckily remembers her and defends Beth because she was very polite to her in the morning. Beth stands up for herself and goes back to the store demanding an apology, which she later gets and a really pricey gift card given by the manager on behalf of the problem caused in his store. A study through Beth when you stand up for yourself you get something good out of it.
Humans are capable of many expressions of emotion, but holding this ability also allows for many people to hide what they are truly feeling within their own minds. Those who shield their emotions from others around them frequently do so in order to protect either themselves or their loved ones from the pains that may occur in life, both in a society and in a family. In Pamela Painter’s Toasters, Jose Padua’s poem Barbie, Utahna Faith’s short story All Girl Band, and George the Poet’s One Number, the recurring theme of outward appearances not reflecting the mindset of the speakers is illustrated.
Allison has had a bitter past full of moments which have scarred her personality. She uses these and writes about the world that few are willing to admit exists. Many find refuge behind their gregarious nature and take comfort in religion or other bodies. However, that does not change the facts of what the world is and how it got there. Allison exposes her audience to these facts, and in the process, she shares her own view.
Carol Tavris was born in 1944, and got her PH.D. in Social Psychology. That is why she has so much credibility in this field of study. This essay wouldn’t mean anything if it wasn’t coming from someone who has the background and the credibility she does. A strong example of emotion is when she talks about Rodney King and the savage beating he received. It again shows how people in groups act different. There were 11 officers watching 4 of their colleagues beat this poor man. What were they thinking? Did they agree? These are some of the questions you have to ask yourself. One explanation, of course, is that they approved.(18). They may have identified with the abusers, vicariously participating in a beating they rationalized as justified.(18). This is sad but true, but what about the Kitty Genovese story. She was stabbed and killed in front of her apartment, while 38 neighbors heard and watched, not one called for help. This is called diffusion of responsibility or social loafing which pretty much means the more people in a group the lazier everyone gets thinking that someone else will do the right thing. This is just another example of emotion in Carol Tavris’s writing.
The first section explores the “flat-brain theory of emotions, flat-brain syndrome, and flat-brain tango” (Petersen, 2007, pp. 2-45). All three are interrelated (Petersen, 2007). The flat-brain theory of emotions “demonstrates what’s occurring inside of us when things are going well, and how that changes when they are not” (Petersen, 2007, p. 11). Petersen’s (2007) theory “explains how our emotions, thinking, and relating abilities work and how what goes on inside us comes out in the ways we communicate and act” (p. 8). The “flat-brain syndrome” describes what happens when an individual wears their emotions on their sleeve. This “makes it
Morrie expresses that showing emotion is an important factor for living life. Morrie believes that people should not be ashamed of showing their emotions. He thinks it is healthy to show how we feel and that it is perfectly fine to express those feelings. He states, “If you hold back on the emotions- you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid” (Albom, 104). I agree with Morrie’s belief that it is important to fully feel emotions and should not be
Anger is a common negative sneaky emotion that catches most of people off guard even if they try to hide it. Anger may be a good thing as it gives one a way to express his bad mood or negative feelings. It can also help one to find solutions to problems. (Web)
“Bartleby the Scrivener,” by Herman Melville, and “Hills Like White Elephants,” by Ernest Hemingway, both present us with the theme of expressing one’s emotions to others and expectations placed upon us by societal gender roles. Bartleby is thought of as strange man by his peers, because he shows his emotions while working in the dog-eat-dog world of Wall Street. In comparison, Jig is also shown as an emotional character, due to the fact she expresses her concern with the decision of her abortion. However, Jig must suppress her emotions in order to please her significant other, because her male counterpart is unaware of how to acknowledge her emotions. These representations show that sex does not play a role when it comes to being an emotional
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Later on, Beth did not like the way this security guard disrespected her at the store. Beth took the actions into her own hands and drove back to the store. Beth went into her car seeking justice and an apology protecting her right. As she entered the store the first person she interacted with was the security guard Madge P. Groton. Beth demanded an apology and she got her independence, priority, and immunity received from the security guard. An analysis of a dynamic character like Beth from “The Truth About Sharks” demonstrates the theme of “Justice will prevail when it comes to protecting your rights and independence.”
“Man, Sam is such a bitch!” is typically what you hear when the word bitch is being used but do people really know the true meanings of bitch. The word first originated from Germanic times and then lead to old english as “bicce” but now in modern english as “bitch”. The word has many meanings but it started off meaning a female dog for breeders and such. Nowadays we all know the word “bitch” as an irrational, spiteful, and crazy female.
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