Symtorical Analysis : Andromache To Hektor

I am no longer fighting for myself, but for my nation and for my fallen comrades whose death must not be in vain.

A young boy who quickly became chaotic because of where he came from and the people that surrounded him. His mother, his brother

Slavery (noun): a condition compared to that of a slave in respect of exhausting labor or restricted freedom. Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass were both born into slavery, and both suffered the consequences of American ignorance. Jacobs and Douglass provided a brutally honest truth through their poetry about slavery, and how white Americans interpreted slavery. Everyone was subject to Jacobs and Douglass’ assessment on how differently people interpreted what slavery meant – just a means of labor – in both the free Northern states and the rural South. It was their goal to illuminate the brutality of slavery, and how important abolishing slavery was.

In Marie Schwartz’s book Born in Bondage, describes the life as a child during the antebellum era. The most evident struggle of these children is who to have the most loyalty to. Who should the child listen to when it comes to its survival? Should the child be loyal to the Master or its parents? This was the struggle between the will of the Owner and the wants of the parents. The struggle to gain the loyalty of the child typically would go to the parents except in a few cases where the child was raised away from its parents and in the owner’s house. Who has the most influence in the child’s life was a major source of conflict between slave parents and slave owners. This competition for their loyalty created its own problems for the child such as not knowing who to trust more. For the most part one group would exert more influence than the other. While the child’s parents tended to be the group that would exert the most influence, the owners in certain instances would and could exert more influence than the other. One of these circumstances was when the child was raised by its owners.

In Frederick Douglass’ case, he was born into which for him was slavery and his youth years he was isolated away from his mother because slave owners wanted slaves to have no emotions towards their family, but he was one of the Master’s children. In the excerpt Douglass stated, “ My Father was a white man. He was admitted to be such by all i ever heard speak of my parentage. The opinion was also whispered that my master was my father; but of the correctness withheld me. My mother and I were seperated when I was but an infant-- before I knew her as my mother.” He is a young black slave who at first did not have the ability or knowledge to read and is very naïve in understanding his situation. As a child put into slavery Douglass

Slavery was one of the most tragic memories known for in the black race. Slavery is the process at which an African American is purchased by a Caucasian who is used for exhausting labor work such as picking cotton, or tending to house work and being restricted from freedom. All of the slaves were used and abused physically, mentally, and emotionally. In some cases abuse was the death of many of those slaves. The slaves were classified as the lowest of the low and were banned from learning, reading, and writing. Not all slaves’ lives ended at those abusive plantations. Two former slaves whose lives turned out a success was Harriet Jacobs and Fredrick Douglass.

Through his diction, specifically the use of “wicked desires,” “own lusts,” and “cunning arrangement,” Douglass clearly identifies the evil within the master’s acts. Douglass logically explains why “my master was my father,” by presenting the details of what happens to the children of slave women. Within this logos-driven passage, however, is a strong emotional appeal. The factual representation of what happened in these cases is corrupt within itself, and through his wording, Douglass attacks slavery and the acts of his master. Laws themselves made slaveholders the slave’s fathers, and Douglass exposes the inhumane concept of being born into slavery.

Frequently, before the child has reached its twelfth months its mother is taken from it, and hired out on some farm a considerable distance off, and the child is placed under the care of an old woman, too old for field labor” While the bond of a mother and child is essential in basic relationships and child development, slave children are inhibited from this bond and lack the development and relationship that white children and mothers are able to have. Douglass is not even deemed a son to his father and is taken from his mother shortly after his birth.

Jesus is the Suffering Servant Messiah; imitate Jesus' fidelity by not losing heart; the way to glory is through the cross

“The son heard it, though he was some way off. He heard the crack of the whip and the groans of his poor mother. The cold chill ran over him, and he wept aloud; but he was a slave like his mother, and could render her no assistance. He was taught by the most bitter experience,

Today almost all children grow up knowing their parents. It is a crime to take children away from their parents under most circumstances. Reflecting back to slave times, taking the slave children away from their parents is dehumanizing to the parents and children. Douglass uses these descriptions in his narrative to convey how poorly slaves were treated. He never really finds out who his father is, but knows he could have been the master, regardless Douglass knows no matter whom his father is, he would still be a slave.

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave details the progression of a slave to a man, and thus, the formation of his identity. The narrative functions as a persuasive essay, written in the hopes that it would successfully lead to “hastening the glad day of deliverance to the millions of [his] brethren in bonds” (Douglass 331). As an institution, slavery endeavored to reduce the men, women, and children “in bonds” to a state less than human. The slave identity, according to the institution of slavery, was not to be that of a rational, self forming, equal human being, but rather, a human animal whose purpose is to work and obey the whims of their “master.” For these reasons, Douglass articulates a distinction

In this reading Opsal talks about resistant thinking and how women who were incarcerated do not let social labels define them. These women do not let their mistakes define them due to how they view things. This was put as “Women pointed out that the situations that end with somebody in prison are not, as Ronda states, ‘black and white’,” (Adler & Adler, 2014: pg. 302). Which meant to me that there is always story behind every situation. The author Opsal talks about post drug self which is when women who have used drugs start to make a change by proving that they want to change and become better. Which this process was taken in a whole different level when these women actually not only prove, but mentally think and know that they want to change

Both Child and Jacobs show how the women which included mulattas, those who are descended from both white and black root, even realize that they are just slaves and how she is not respected in the society because she is a black slave. Both authors use their character in order to acquire sympathy from the readers. Hanrahan shows how “Child used the mulatta as a symbol of slavery and all its evils, pointing chiefly to its devastating effects on morality and domesticity (602)”. Child shows how sometimes death is the only way of escaping for many slaves. Hanrahan believes that Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was written in response to Child’s story. Jacobs’ character is also not aware of being a slave just like Child’s writing. “Superadded

Douglass gives detailed anecdotes of his and others experience with the institution of slavery to reveal the hidden horrors. He includes personal accounts he received while under the control of multiple different masters. He analyzes the story of his wife’s cousin’s death to provide a symbol of outrage due to the unfairness of the murderer’s freedom. He states, “The offence for which this girl was thus murdered was this: She had been set that night to mind Mrs. Hicks’s baby, and during the night she fell asleep, and the baby cried.” This anecdote, among many others, is helpful in persuading the reader to understand the severity of rule slaveholders hold above their slaves. This strategy displays the idea that slaves were seen as property and could be discarded easily.