Anger In Audrey Lorde's The Female Man

When black women respond to racism they are responding with anger; the anger of exclusion, of unquestioned privilege of racial distortions, of silence ill-use, stereotyping, defensiveness, misnaming, and of betrayal. Black women may have a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against those oppressions, personal and institutional, which brought that anger into being. Focused with precision it can become a powerful source of energy serving progress and change. —Audre Lorde, "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism" (1981). The emotion which accompanies the first steps toward liberation is, for most women, anger. Through the exercise strength may be gained.

Audre Lorde speaks on how anger has affected her throughout her life and how she has dealt with it in her speech “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”. Lorde is claiming that her anger, which she gets from being oppressed by not only men, but white women too, is her best use of change. She provides many examples of how white woman have completely ignored her struggles and views on racism, which causes her to become angry with them for their lack of awareness. Lorde urges these women to act on their feeling of anger as they are the best avenue to produce change. She doesn’t want these women to keep their anger in check and hide it, but instead harness it and use it as fuel for progression. Lorde concludes her speech by telling these

Men (and sometimes women) ignore it, see it as our being “upset” or “hysterical,” or see it as craziness” (Frye, p.84). In Frye’s opinion, men see women’s anger as “irrational”. Men do not know how to handle women’s anger and sometimes even respond physically or just disregard it because they do not know how to deal with it. Frye’s discussion of anger, although from a feminist point of view, brings an insight into the emotion of anger and how it affects people.

Conflict in The Cask of Amontillado and A Poison Tree also reveals the theme that suppressed anger can sometimes lead to revenge which can result in explosive violence. The man vs. man conflicts in both of the writings are examples of revenge fueled violence.

Thesis: Demonstrates that the energy used for anger and frustration can turn into passion and devotion

Sapphire or the angry black women is one of the common stereotype associated with an African American woman. According to class, sapphire is the ideology that portrays black women as rude, loud, malicious, stubborn, and overbearing. Black women are harsh and mostly identified to put black men where they belong. Furthermore, it was discussed in class that the sapphire caricature mocks and belittles the African American man, who they are in often in conflict with. According to Jim Crow Museum, black women often mocked African American men for being unemployed and chasing after white women (The Sapphire). It was said black women acted this way because they were fearful about losing their partners. These stereotypes forces black women to be categorize into things

Anger in a business setting can cause one to act inappropriately or unwisely by blowing an incident out of proportion and possibly irrevocably damaging a career. Learning that at any moment we have the ability to consciously control our anger is empowering but not that easy to accomplish. Goleman asserts the body’s chemical reaction to stressful situations, relating back to our ancient ancestors, is the reason for this difficulty. The introduction of hormones into the body is not a gradual elevation, but a quick release relating back to our basic fight or flight response to environmental dangers. Every day, hormones are incrementally released into the body with each passing taxing stressful episode until a level is reached that triggers anger. He offers two weapons against anger outbursts. The first is method is to recognize, as early as possible, what is triggering the anger. This disruption of the anger

Another example of anger presented in the book Anthem, by Ayn Rand was when Equality showed his invention to the World Council of Scholars. The house of scholars were scared of his invention so they commanded it to be smashed. So Equality ran to a window with the invention and yelled, “You fools!” we cried “You fools! You thrice damned fools!” (75). That anger had led Equality to the uncharted forest where he had found Liberty a girl he had met earlier in the book and they lived together happily.

The characteristics of anger in literature appear in many literary works. Anger in literature is characterized by the struggle against the establishment, values, conventions and authority. The 20th century modern playwrights focused on many themes such as: the theme of social critic against middle-class values, theme of violence, damage, rage, hatred, loneliness and frustration. The protagonists are mostly of the working-class or of lower middle-class origin; who view society with contempt and ironic humor and may have conflict with authority. They share a disrespect and contempt for the class system and the post welfare state. Anger in literature is characterized by applying the plot which is true-to-life, logical, consequential, and it is

Week four reading had a lot of usual information. Summers (2016) opens up chapter 11 by writing, “People do become angry” (p. 225). I think this is a great and truthful statement. Anger is a natural human emotion, although some people know how to constructively handle this intense emotion and others do not. Summers goes on to discuss that anger can be an emotion which is a clue that there is really an underlying problem that needs to be resolved (p. 225). This is something that I need to remind myself of. Life can get very busy and rushed, so I don’t always have time to deal with problems as they happen. Then I get angry over something small, when really I need to slow down and address my unresolved underlying problem.

Anger is manifested in the individual who spurns love and opts instead of fury. Anne

This controlling image ensures black women are void of anger privilege (social and structural freedom to openly express anger) that more powerful and higher status individuals (whites) enjoy. (Walley-Jean,

Thus, this definition of anger appears to ring true of menis and we can understand the nature of such

“Several researchers suggest that the expression of anger is inconsistent with stereotypical beliefs about women and that women’s anger is regarded as less appropriate than men’s” (Broidy and Agnew 285). The gender role that expects women not to act on anger provides a supporting reason on why men have a higher crime rate than women. Role expectations and role strains are a major part of how gender affects

Anger runs through people’s veins, it is a tricky thing to avoid. During Macbeth, some characters let anger get the best of them. For example, by the end of the play lady Macbeth kills herself from anger and not being to be able to get what she wants. She knows that she hates Duncan and wants to attack him, but she knows that she can’t do it right so she asks Macbeth if he can do it because she knows that Macbeth can do it but Macbeth says no and she grows angry at him and