Assault In David Lurie's Disgrace

Disgraced is easily a contender for the best play read in this class. This play makes the audience deliberately think about issues raised in the play and it does not favor one side over the other. I loved it because it didn’t just say Muslims are having a hard time in America or their perspective but also the side of people who are not Muslims. The sore topics that no one really brings up in Islam about dogs or women are brought up and discussed in this play between Amir and his wife Emily. Amir brings up the issues and kind of just leaves them in the air for the audience to wonder about and maybe even search for answers. Amir goes on a rant about, “let’s stone adulterers, let’s cut off the hands of thieves, let’s kill the unbelievers.” Although he takes that out of context, Emily brings perspective into the issue, “…the usual translation is debatable.” I like that fact that it causes this difference of opinion and it’s not just one sided. Also, the affair between Emily and Isaac is just another sucker punch to the extremely tense play. The drama is filled with eternal religious battel and rare outlook on the questions that aren’t really brought up, that was until this

Author James Gilligan wrote “Shame” to show the relation of shame and violence. His motive is to achieve a better understanding of why people are violent. He creates an authoritative mood

To choose to do the right thing and admit it or to try your hardest to deny deny deny. The most significant difference between the play and the actual case is that in the conviction of Minnie Wright from Trifles she had no regrets and she admitted to it. Mrs. Wright sat there on her chair and pleaded guilty to committing the crime in the most nonchalant way possible. “Mr. Hale: ’Cause he's dead," says she. "Dead?" says I. She just nodded her head, not getting a bit excited, but rockin' back and forth. "Why--where is he?" says I, not knowing what to say. She just pointed upstairs--like that [himself pointing to the room above]. I got up, with the idea of going up there. I walked from there to here--then I says, "Why, what did he die of?" "He died of a rope round his neck," says she, and just went on pleatin' at her apron…” (Glaspell, Trifles). Mrs. Wright was just sitting there in her rocking chair looking calm, cool, and collective not giving a care in the world about what she had just done. When Mr. Hale comes walking in asking about her husband and if he’s home she just responds with a simple yes and pretty much blurts out that she murdered her husband. She knew exactly what she did and the reasons for why she did it and for that she was not about to run because at this point in her life even though she was now going to be sent to

Throughout the novel, Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy reveals that her mother's angry demeanour is only due to her fear for Lucy’s life. Lucy’s mother is first mentioned as Lucy describes the tolls her sickness has taken on her parents. Lucy states that “the whole family shared the burden of [her] mother’s anger”(Grealy 9) displaying that her mother holds an angry outlook on life. Lucy feels responsible for this anger as it seems to correlate with the issues her family faces regarding money and payments for Lucy's treatments. In reality these emotions are really just her mother's way of dealing with Lucy’s sickness. Lucy’s mother was “the only one in the family who faced facts” (19) implying that she was the only one who grasped how

Being called a disgrace can be hurtful, but are you actually one? In the book,

``In criminal law, confession evidence is a prosecutor’s most potent weapon’’ (Kassin, 1997)—“the ‘queen of proofs’ in the law” (Brooks, 2000). Regardless of when in the legal process they occur, statements of confession often provide the most incriminating form of evidence and have been shown to significantly increase the rate of conviction. Legal scholars even argue that a defendant’s confession may be the sole piece of evidence considered during a trial and often guides jurors’ perception of the case (McCormick, 1972). The admission of a false confession can be the deciding point between a suspect’s freedom and their death sentence. To this end, research and analysis of the false confessions-filled Norfolk Four case reveals the

Public shaming has happened to many people over the years. It is one of the worst feelings in the world. The painful, antagonizing, embarrassing shame that comes out of it makes people’s lives as miserable as getting tarred and feathered. Hester Prynne committing adultery, Monica Lewinski having sexual relations with Bill Clinton, Justine Sacco tweeting out an African-AIDS stereotype. These are all examples of people who have been publicly shamed. Because public shaming promotes the negative change in perspective towards a victim, long-lasting embarrassment, and regret, it should be left in the past.

Lucy had heard stories before, about the pillaging the "savages" would do in a town after exacting vengeance. The newspapers loved to exaggerate moments like these to sell and try to find people to give "first hand" accounts, but she also knew that many of these reports had some truth to them.

The writing Shame, was taken from Nigger, an autobiography written by Dick Gregory. This narrative was about two childhood experiences that can teach a lesson on how the negative actions of a person can have a profound effect on a person’s life. Gregory tells about two different situations and how they affect his childhood, one in which he has no control over, and the other, where given a choice, he fails to respond.

When Lucy wanders a little farther than she is used from the house, Lynn gets agitated over her safety. If Lucy is ever to go out of her sights with Stebbs, she was protective in asking if he would be able to defend her with a rifle (page 205).

The accusations against him, brought by Briony Tallis, held him responsible for the violation of her cousin Lola. Robbie reflects on this, as Briony plans to refute her statement to the police, “The intricacies were lost to him, the urgency had died. Briony would change her evidence, she would rewrite the past so that the guilty became the innocent. But what was guilt these days? It was cheap. Everyone was guilty, and no one was. No one would be redeemed by a change of evidence, for there weren’t enough people… to…gather in the facts.” (188) Robbie’s loss of security and his future took away the childlike carefreeness he displayed before the accusation. Briony’s conscience weighs heavily on her as she moves from a naïve implication to the realization of the consequences.

Patricia Lockwood’s The Rape Joke is a risky composition- not because it discloses information about Lockwood’s personal rape experience, but because it does so from a comedic stance, ridiculing the unfortunate event and the events leading up to and after it. While the creation of the poem was prompted due to the sexual assault she experienced, the content and subject are not centered around the incident or the assaulter but around rape culture and the sociological concept of victim blaming, from both society and oneself. There is no such thing as a rape joke-the joke is the incredulous ways society has guided people to respond to it.

All plays have important historical information that is relevant to the overall concept of the play. Disgraced was written in 2012 by novelist and screenwriter Ayad Akhtar. The play was written in New York City and takes place in New York City. When Akhtar wrote this play, he wrote in a time that the United States was going through many changes. The play takes place post 9/11, during this era people had a lot of fears about the rise of terrorism. Many were questioning their attitude toward muslims. In Disgraced the main character Amir explores the concept of self-identification as a Muslim.Akhtar, emphasizes racial and ethnic prejudices that secretly exist in the most culturally liberal groups of people. This play is a play that is still relevant to today because people are always trying to

“Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change”(Brené Brown). In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a woman is publicly shamed for having a child with a man who is not her husband. Another example of public shame can be seen in modern day articles “Florida ‘Scarlet Letter’ Law is Repealed by Gov. Bush,” by Dana Canedy, and “Houston Couple Gets ‘The Scarlet Letter’ Treatment.” Both talk of public shame that people have had to endure in the present day. Public shaming is not an effective punishment because it is a cruel and unusual punishment, it does not deter crime, and it can emotionally traumatize the one being shamed.

In the novel Jar City by Arnaldur Indriðason, sexual assault is a major theme. It is revealed throughout the novel that Holberg, the victim of the murder that most of the investigation revolves around, has committed at least two rapes in his lifetime. These rapes understandably have devastating effects on the victims, but this novel shows that it is not only the victims themselves that suffer, but also their loved ones.