Violence In Octavia Butler's Parable Of The Sower

In modern society, violence is unquestionably looked down upon. With any type of inhumane abuse, there is a strict set of laws in place to protect victims. However, this was not always the case. In Octavia Butler’s book Kindred, she does not hesitate in intensely describing the unjust and violent exploitation of power by white people against blacks within the 1800’s. Even more so, she uses violence as a dominant theme throughout the entire novel. As always, a sensitive topic like full out physical abuse is hard to handle for some readers, and that makes people question whether the prevalent violent theme in Kindred was truly necessary. Without violence,

As much as society does not want to admit, violence serves as a form of entertainment. In media today, violence typically has no meaning. Literature, movies, and music, saturated with violence, enter the homes of millions everyday. On the other hand, in Beloved, a novel by Toni Morrison, violence contributes greatly to the overall work. The story takes place during the age of the enslavement of African-Americans for rural labor in plantations. Sethe, the proud and noble protagonist, has suffered a great deal at the hand of schoolteacher. The unfortunate and seemingly inevitable events that occur in her life, fraught with violence and heartache, tug at the reader’s heart-strings. The wrongdoings Sethe endures are significant to the meaning

On July 13, 2008, Taliban fighters launched a major assault on a small U.S. Army outpost in Afghanistan, killing nine soldiers and wounding 27. The story of Wanat is more then just one small group of commanders’ mistakes; it is a window into how the war in Afghanistan went awry and how we can learn from these mistakes to better future missions and future leaders.

Violence in the short story is very interesting because its so apparent and yet so deep. Towards the end of the story, the Misfit says to Grandmother “She would of been a good woman . . . if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.” Flannery O’Connor doesn’t say that being exposed to violence makes them better people, but the message is clear: violence changes us as a people (both in the story and in the real world). Up until the very end, each member of the family, mostly Grandmother, acted egotistically and only focused in herself. None of the characters take a minute to evaluate whats right and wrong for themselves or anyone else. They all react based on their instincts without thinking things through so much. But when Grandmother is put in a life or death situation where she’s forced to carefully pick her words and actions, she is suddenly capable of a being more selfless and spiritually sound. The Grandmother’s everyday considerations probably have nothing to do with her son or the kids, really anyone in her family, but when she is faced with her own mortality she has this moment of “grace”—she calls the Misfit her own son, and reach makes an effort, emotionally and physically, hoping to save herself or comfort him. In the end, however, the Grandmother’s moment of “grace” ends up getting her killed. O’Connor

Violence is defined as a behavior involving physical or mental force intending to hurt, damage, or kill someone. In the words of Zak Ibrahim, peace is defined as the proliferation or the increase in the existence of Justice. But where does love fit in to these conversations? Violence cannot necessarily transform into love, but the presence of it is surely important. Violence involving our most loved ones, helps us find love and compassion in the toughest of situations, and leads us toward paths of peace. In this essay, examples will be drawn from Zak Ibrahim 's keynote presentation, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Beautiful Boy; a film directed by Shawn Ku, and Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut.

“Very good. Our plan unfolds in five days. General Zhousbek and Lady Sara are in charge of the attack on Parsis. Ace, you will be reporting directly to Lady Sara. You will be working alone on this mission with no support from the rest of your team. Is that acceptable to you?”

Flannery O’Connor applies many similar components in a lot of her work such as violence. This is an aspect primarily attributed from her religious background as a Catholic. In A Good Man is Hard to Find, Good Country People, and A View of the Woods the violence is very prominent and efficient way to give them an eye-opening moment. The brutal events and most evident deaths, such as those of the betrayal faced by Joy-Hulga, the murder of Mary Fortune or the shooting of the Grandmother in A Good Man is Hard to Find demonstrates that in Flannery O’Connor’s short stories, she utilizes violence to give her character’s an epiphanic moment and brings them back to reality, to register their current situation.

Violence is implying physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone. In America every human being is treated differently because of their race, gender, and sex unless you have power or money. For example all the rich white straight male are well respected and has more power than everyone else. This happen during slavery where all the white people had more freedom than African American. Many individuals were put in harm by physical abuse of a higher class because of their physical images.

Violence is another weapon used by Curley's wife,Curley and Carlson. They all use meaningless force to input their opinions for example when Candy's dog enters the room, Carlson showing no sign of empthay towards the dog says “Tell you what. I'll shoot him for you”, Carlson doesnt need to kill the dog, maybe helping the dog would be a more sophiscated way of approaching it but they use violence because that is the easier option for him. Violence is the easy way out for people and Steinbeck has a great dislike for it. Violence is used to destory dreams in an instant Curleys wife re-establishes the brutal power of ebeing white over balck when she threatens him with death, “I could get you strung up on a tree”.

Violence has never helped anyone but instead it has taken away the lives of people. In the essay, Jones says, “…the

Virginia Woolf maintains her pacifism as an arm of “thinking,” rather than physical fighting. She writes in her essay “Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid, “unless we can think peace into existence we…will lie in the same darkness” (Woolf 242). In arguing the same point, she mentions that “there is another way of fighting for freedom without arms; we can fight with the mind” (Woolf 242) which indicates a pacifism that is not tolerant of violence in any capacity. Instead her essay argues that violence in the hearts of men is a result of the “subconscious Hitlerism that holds us down. It is the desire for aggression; the desire to dominate and enslave” (Woolf 243). Woolf argues primarily that women are simply not directly responsible for war because “there is no woman in the Cabinet; nor any responsible post” and that “all idea makers who are in a position to ideas effective are men” (Woolf 242). She is, however, is quick to dispel the idea that women must, as a result, “bury the head in the pillow…and cease this futile activity of idea-making” (Woolf 242). Woolf calls women to action within the arenas that they operate, in this case the “tea-table” (among others) and stresses that women must think more even though they are not able to effect broad change based upon their thinking. Woolf’s argument is to fight mentally; to “think against the current, not with it” (Woolf 243). In her essay, Woolf agrees with Freud’s notion of “Thanatos” being the instinct that drives men to violence. In her essay, she quotes those who name Hitler as being “aggressiveness, tyranny, the insane love of power made manifest” (Woolf 243). Both Woolf and Freud recognize the inherent idea that men are driven by instinct; in Woolf’s essay that is subconscious Hitlerism of Englishmen, and in Freud’s letter that is Thanatos. War, aggression and bloodlust provide men with an outlet for these “ancient instincts, instincts fostered and cherished by education and tradition,” (Woolf 244) as Woolf writes. Freud would agree along these lines, and may go further to say that these instincts are a necessary part of the 20th century, so long as national identity still exists. This idea is made clearer when Freud writes that, “Moreover, all forms of war

Violence has been around since the beginning of human kind, although the way that it is viewed and portrayed has changed since then. This becomes obvious when history is considered because humans evolve and technology advances, so does the way that we view things and technology, alone, has changed so much since the 1800s. However, there is a common theme between the poems surrounding violence that we have studied in this class. It is the silence of those who are an integral part of the violence. The way that this silence is portrayed differently as the works progress from modern to post-modern, starting with two of Robert Browning’s poems, followed by a work by Wilfred Owen and ending with Simon’s Armitage It Could Be You. These works span

Violence goes on all over the world everyday, but what everyone doesn’t understand is that it affects people easily and it is started by different emotions or actions. What Edgar Allan Poe tries to convey to the reader in his “The Tell-Tale Heart” is that violence is brought up by many things, can be brought out by the littlest of things, be blown out of proportion, and become a danger to anyone associated with that person. Violence can be caused by the smallest of things, like someone else’s actions. For example, The mad man’s anger was brought on by one detail on one person “ I think it was his eye. His eye was like the eye of a vulture, the eye of one of those terrible birds that watch and wait while an animal dies ...

The story “Bestiary” is about a young girl name Isabel, who is sent to be a playmate for a small boy name Nino. At a very sad house with a family that she is familiar with, she remembers them fondly but does not want to go. Violence in this story seems to be either and outlet for most characters that is used to control the other characters. One will find that the “Tiger” in the story is used to represent violence at it most dangerous point. Dictating to the family when and where they can go. Isabel mentions on page 85 that she found pleasure to think that the ants came and went without fear of any tiger. Isabel felt like a prisoner to the violence. Not being able to roam freely throughout the house for fear of the tiger being there.

Connor Gale had just retired from the CIA. He had served twenty years for his country. Next, he was going to Russia for a vacation. During his flight, he turned on his laptop and started to delete some old CIA files. Then, he found a file named “CIA agent’s info” and opened it. In the file were the names of every single agent, their addresses, and their photos. He quickly turned off his computer and waited for the plane to land.