The Jaguar by Ted Hughes Commentary

Drawing on animal rights claims, the questionable moral status of animals and the land ethic, this essay seeks to argue that zoos; a place in which wild animal’s are held in captivity, are inherently unethical, because they violate the ethical and moral standard in which animals have a claim to. Citing experts in the animal ethics field, this essay will be supported by firstly establishing that animals do in fact have “animal rights” and similarly, that they have a claim to a moral status relative to that of humans. Following this, this essay will show that the animal rights, which zoo animals are privy to, allows us to set an ethical standard on which humans have a duty to treat animals, especially when held in captivity. Analyzing this ethical standard with which me must treat zoo animals, we can deduce that zoos are in fact not ethical in nature and in practice.

First, the story begins with a scene involving the main character (Rainsford) and Whitney. They start out the conversation, both agreeing that hunting is a great sport. Despite this, Whitney still acknowledges the feelings of the Jaguar when she says, “Not for the jaguar…I rather think they understand one thing-fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death.” Rainsford,

As the animal rights movement has developed and grown substantially in recent years, there has been an increased focused on the welfare of captive animals. A popular institution that has received much attention for keeping animals captive is the zoo. Because of this focus, zoos have responded by publicizing their positive benefits for existence in order to justify keeping these animals on display. Since the term “zoo” can have a wide variety of meaning and characteristics, it is important to define what constitutes a zoo in this essay. Zoos are defined as a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures, displayed to the public, and

Tyson’s idea that the purpose of an animal exhibit is to serve as a substitute rather than a representation of their natural ecosystem reveals she has not considered the complexity of a zoo’s influence. She implies that when an animal lives in captivity, their enclosure does not convey the sense of urgency needed in the conservation of the species

Lily Atkins 4/18/2018 Lit 2000 Professor Farmen Analysis Of: What Is The Zoo For What In “What Is The Zoo For What,” Patricia Lockwood paints a portrait of nature. Nature is violent and free; it embodies a sense of chaos and unruliness that society has tried to control through the invention of captivity. Inventions of captivity can be described as zoos, but is also anything that holds another thing; like a fountain holding water, a song containing sound. Many forms of captivity are described while words are redefined to point out the very abstract invention of captivity, which is language.

Gavin portrays the theme of enslavement, firstly, through the use of similes and animalistic imagery; this is evident when the boys were ‘crouching like caged animals’. In the simile, ‘like caged animals’, the comparison between human boys and animals trapped in a zoo indicates dehumanisation, thus portraying the children as feral primitives. This implies that, like slaves, Anoup and other adults perceived the boys as savage, untamable animals who deserve to be treated accordingly. Since children are deemed to be universal symbols of innocence, the writer’s intention when describing the boys as ‘caged animals’ may have been to show how their innocence has been corrupted by child labour. In turn, this evokes intense pity from the reader, who may regard children facing such harsh conditions to be abhorrent. Therefore, the theme of enslavement is portrayed through the writer's use of animalistic imagery, showing how the boys’ suffering has reduced them to the lowest status, like animals and slaves.

Incontrovertibly, one of the first things one may notice upon reading the work, is the use of highly explicit imagery connecting her thoughts and ideologies. With these techniques, her whole impression of the essay establishes an adversary relationship between the natural world and the human world. In summary, the author imposes that with weasels, much more freedom is

Zoos are internment camps for animals, and it should be shut down because of all the mistreatment and bad effects it has caused on animals. These bad effects and mistreatment can be summarized to three major points, which are:

In Upton Sinclair’s novel “The Jungle” the use of animalistic terms and connotations in the depictions of both the people and the politics created persuasive arguments for socialism and against capitalism.

Deep in the forest of Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the caged bird sings on. The singing slaves in Douglass’s narrative are the caged birds of Maya Angelou’s famous poem, filling the air around them with desire: desire for a freedom so far out of reach—for “things unknown but longed for still.”

The Zoo is ever child’s dream of seeing strange animals that they have never seen before, but this zoo is like no other. “It was kept with things he could hunt, and it really wasn’t like any animal sanctuary” (Goldman 60). The zoo of Death as the zoo is called is full of

In the novel The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, the butchered animals within the factory represent the miserable lives of the immigrants and poor people of Chicago. Sinclair creates this representation through paralleling the experiences of the animals and the people. Both the animals and the people are oblivious as to their ultimate fate; the animals do not know that the factory is the path to their death, and the immigrants do not know of all the calamities that will befall them in the United States. The novel creates parallelism in the treatment of the animals and the people; both the animals and the people are treated in atrocious ways. Finally, there is considerable similarity between the indignant deaths of the animals and the people. Thus, from the beginning of the animals’ lives in the factory and the immigrants’ lives in the United States to the death of both the animals and the immigrants and poor people, there is resemblance between the animals and the people.

People think that animals want to be in zoos, but they really do not. In some zoos the owners or zookeepers see how the environment is making the animals feel bad or good and they try to change it by giving the animals a similar habitat to where they came from. All three stories “The Stripes Will Survive”, “The Zoos Go Wild”, and “Our Beautiful Macaws and Why They Need Enrichment” deal with protecting animals but they all do so in different ways.

Elephant has long been known as one of man’s best friends, who have peacefully coexisted along with humanity for thousands of years. However, the relationship between the two is no longer in the equilibrium state. In “An Elephant Crackup?”, Charles Siebert discusses the downfall of the elephants. He gives a depiction of the recent raging and violent acts of the elephants among themselves and toward other species, including humans, and presents an educated and almost unexpected explanation to their behaviors. He says elephants are just like us; they have feelings and now are “suffering from a form of chronic stress, a kind of species-wide trauma”(Siebert 354). The similarity that should be something fascinating is now slowly turning them into the immensely savage beasts before wiping them out of existence. Even when the appearance of the words “stress” and “trauma” looks like a serious case of “anthropocentric conjecture”, it provides a totally new vision, a fresh way of looking at the boiling issue of the disappearance and sadistic acts of elephants specifically and wild animals at large. With the help of two powerful essays: “Great to Watch” by Maggie Nelson and “The Power of Context” of Malcolm Gladwell, the issue of the unusual behaviors of the elephants is thoroughly illuminated and its solution no longer seems to be out of human’s reach.

The mood of “Caged Bird” changes drastically from stanza to stanza. Angelou’s specific diction choices help to reflect the change from being positive to negative with some elements of hope involved. The parts of the poem involving the free bird provide the reader with a feeling of self government.In contrast, the mood associated with the caged bird is confinment. Despite the negative mood tied to the caged bird there are still elements of hope woven into these stanzas.