The text juxtaposes the vulnerability of Leandra to the insanity selfish personality of Eugenio to discredit his character. The text sympathizes with Leandra’s vulnerability, because the men treat her as an object. Eugenio describes his attempt to wed Leandra as, “confident I could win the prize” (Cervantes 343). Eugenio objectifies Leandra by comparing her to a “prize,” causing the reader to question Eugenio’s purpose and sympathize with Leandra. This objectification continues when her father, “made her disappear…hoping that time would wear away some of the bad reputation” (Cervantes 345). The father doesn’t view Leandra as a daughter, rather an object that taints the family’s name. The reader begins to pity Leandra because the treatment she receives from the men. Yet the suffering that Eugenio claims that he endures seems comical when compared to Leandra’s suffering. When the reader first encounters Eugenio, readers discover the shepherd begging his ewe “tell me, daughter, was it wolves that frightened you? Won’t you tell me, pretty little one” (Cervantes 341). The idea that Eugenio addresses the ewe as a human, suggests the text doesn’t expect the reader to take Eugenio seriously. Like Marcela, Eugenio also wishes to leave his role as an aristocrat and begin a new life as a shepherd. However, Cervantes takes issue with Eugenio’s transition from upper class to a lower class, evident with his reason for wanting to become a shepherd. Eugenio ironically reveals to Don Quixote
The themes and idea explored in the novel that shows the life of a peasant in Mexico, most evident in this story are: theme of family, death and revenge. In addition, the author Juan Rulfo became an orphan after he lost his family during the Mexican revolution and he uses this tragic chapter of his life for inspiration in this story. The fact that he did not have a father role model is evident in this story too. Juvencio’s and Don Lupe’s son both of them grew up without the role
The last literary device Eugenia Collier exercises to deepen her sensation of despair and disgrace is diction. Collier influences her words to carve her emotions into the reader, one can sense the feelings of puzzlement and the irascibleness it evokes. For instance, in this quote the reader can grasp Eugenia’s voice through her use of eloquent words “ I indeed lost my mind, for all the smoldering emotions of that summer swelled in me and burst - the great need for my mother who was never there, the hopelessness of our poverty and degradation, the bewilderment of being neither child nor woman and yet both at once, the fear unleashed by my father’s tears. And theses feelings combined in one great impulse toward destruction.” This quotes reveals the emotions the author choice to seal
From the reading, the one thing that stood out the most is how eugenics came about and how poor white trash were seen as having an illness and disease to justify their social class status. The whole concept of eugenics just doesn’t quite sit well with me due to the fact that it believes there is a set of individuals who are superior to others, what justify that? Under what conditions does society have the right to make a reproductive choice for someone else? Chapter 3 talks about how three generations of imbeciles is enough, but in my opinion, it is not up to society to cut reproduction, especially when family and heirs have such an importance to people, regardless of social class because it has become a norm, to have a family. Although eugenics
Caliban, a very misunderstood character, while he may seem to be the monster on the outside. He isn’t who he appears to be. He is simply a product of his environment. Before Prospero showed up the island was his, Caliban’s mother had left him the island, but now he is only a slave to Prospero, who tortures him. So it sounds to me that Caliban isn’t in fact the monster, and the monster may actually be the person that you didn’t expect it to be.
In final analysis, the employment of eugenics in both Germany and the United States depicts the sciences variation in regards to the context of the nation in which it is being implemented in. Germany was enthralled with eugenic science because, after such an enormous military loss and the economic turmoil that came soon thereafter, they were in a state of weakness and said weakness could seemingly be solved by creating a superior fighting force. The appeal of preventing a future political, social, and economic slump like the one that they faced after World War One was substantial in the employment and enforcement of eugenics within the area, as preparedness for future conflict could reprise their lost power on an international scale. The United
In the Name of Eugenics by Daniel J. Kevles explores the history of the eugenics movement and several of the most influential eugenicists who impacted the field. The book focuses on the earliest years of the movement when it was used primarily as a way to try and determine who was and was not fit to marry and reproduce, as well as the later years of the movement where it was used to help understand and diagnose various medical problems passed down from parents to their children. Eugenics was primarily used as a way to classify different segments of society and was often used as an excuse to infringe upon the rights of different groups of people who did not fit the societal standard. The first eugenicist Kevles mentions is Francis Galton.
Sharing the same principle, Nazi eugenicists also focus in investigating heritable traits. Galton argued that mental abilities are heritable, and people have the responsibility to maintain these “natural gifts.” He claimed that the failure of Athenian women to reproduce resulted for the Greek civilization, which he considered as the “ablest” race, to disappeared. This then suggests that maintaining desirable heritable traits is necessary for the improvement of human races population. With hereditary traits as center of eugenics, eugenicists started to investigate the role of hereditary in different diseases and characteristics. For instance, Karl Pearson investigated the influence of hereditary in intelligence, mental illness, alcoholism
Eugenics is defined, in some way or the other, as the process of reshaping the human race by determining the kinds of people who will be born. As such, there is much debate in the field of eugenics, with authors, like Philip Kitcher, who support laissez-faire or a minimalist approach of eugenics in which eugenic decision-making should be limited only to avoid neurological illnesses and in which parental free choice is valued. Gregory Stock’s essay, The Enhanced and Un-Enhanced, presents otherwise by supporting the position of maximalist eugenics, allowing individuals the full extent in the selection of genes. On the other hand, the film, Gattaca, raises major ethical problems by illustrating a dystopian society resulted by extensive
A rapidly growing component of US healthcare expenditure has been the growth of pharmaceutical marketing. Visits by pharmaceutical representatives (known as detailing) to physicians have a $15 billion dollars annual marketing cost. Marketing expense has arisen intensified public analysis, with evaluators challenging that costlier, and possibly less cost effective drugs, must do with the effect of physician-directed promotion have a role in the rise of HealthCare cost and excessively prescribing habits of physicians’. Signifying that a record amount of correlation among physician and direct promotion drug sale are signaled – minded bias.
The question of whether or not people with intellectual disabilities should bear children is nothing new. Court ordered sterilizations of the intellectually disabled were commonly practiced during the first half of the 20th century as eugenics movements swept the globe. It was assumed that people who had intellectual disabilities were not capable of being good parents and would conceive children who also had a disability. This population of people was not desirable and fell victim of eugenics, which also happened to be gaining popularity in Nazi Germany. As most know, Adolf Hitler was one of the most famous leaders who practiced eugenics, essentially killing all who were not white, blonde haired and blue eyed. Anyone who attended school
Hitler was not only in charge of the mass killing of millions of jews, but also thousands of others who were not a part of what he wanted to be a “perfect race”. Meaning he didn't want any living persons of other religions, races, disabilities, or diseases in the world. Hitler's plan called “the final solution”, is how he took care of what he thought was a problem. What hitler did for a perfect race was neither okay or justified and ended a disaster causing millions of innocent deaths. Just because Hitler had the power to get what he wanted does not make it justified. The Nazis slowly became allies moving into their homes and took over in their surprise.
These fears spread to the general population due to the efforts of aristocrats and scientists who developed theories of eugenics and scientific racism (Brodkin, 1994). The key players in these efforts were Madison Grant and his book Passing of the Great Race. In his book, Grant discussed his discovery that were three or four European races ranging from the superior Nordics of northwestern Europe to the inferior southern and eastern races of Alpines, Mediterraneans, and Jews. In Grant’s eyes, the upper class was pure Nordic while the lowers classes came from the lower races (Brodkin,
The idea of eugenics was first introduced by Sir Francis Galton, who believed that the breeding of two wealthy and successful members of society would produce a child superior to that of two members of the lower class. This assumption was based on the idea that genes for success or particular excellence were present in our DNA, which is passed from parent to child. Despite the blatant lack of research, two men, Georges Vacher de Lapouge and Jon Alfred Mjoen, played to the white supremacists' desires and claimed that white genes were inherently superior to other races, and with this base formed the first eugenics society. The American Eugenics Movement attempted to unethically obliterate the rising tide of lower classes by immorally
The theory of Eugenics can be dated back all the way to 400 B.C. but was not popularized until the mid-1800s by an English scientist, Francis Galton. He researched and published the theory that aimed to improve the genetic quality of the human population through selective breeding (NC Office of Archives and History). As the half-cousin of Charles Darwin, Galton applied the Darwinism science (survival of the fittest) to heredity characteristics. Two types of Eugenics stemmed from the theory, positive and negative. Positive eugenics is encouraging the “best” people in the society based on financial and personal features to have more children while negative eugenics is picking people with flaws and defects from the population