4 Racusin, Elliot Things Fall Apart

Aristotle once said, “The male is by nature, superior and the female inferior, and the one rules and the other is ruled.” In Things Fall Apart, the views are shown from a masculine perspective, showing no female dominance in the African novel. The women are portrayed not as humans but as objects, things to be traded, like common household things, and are put in their place whenever a male deems fit to. In the novel Things Fall Apart, gaining a title is a very important status among the native people. The main character actually strived to gain titles his whole life and succeeded in gaining a few, meaning he could have more respect, and more women. The more women a man had meant that he could breed with them thus having a larger family whom will go out and work for him, thus the women are seen only as tools, in a large scheme of things. The women are made to do the chores and are called upon every whim for their husband. “Go and bring me some cold water” (Pg54) and “When did you become a shriveling old woman” says Okonkwo to himself, placing himself as something horrible and demeaning, a man with no titles, so to speak.  As the story progresses, the men are at table discussing the events for the upcoming wedding and how the bride’s family have to pay the husband money in order for her to “not be a burden on him.” Also they discussed how it was ridiculous how a woman could be in charge of a man. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of a man when they are making children,” shows how clueless these men are and how it is inconceivable to think that a man is ever inferior to a woman in that society.  Also when Okonkwo becomes furious, the wives are unable to help cope, rather than standing up to his bullying, they cower in fear, just as every other woman in that society. Therefore the actions displayed by the women in the society in Things Fall Apart show few or none feminist movements giving them no advantages to succeed in the society.

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We all have heard about the new crazes and fastest times things have been put together by humans or now machines however in the chapter by Neil Postman's Technopoly , it shows that the ideas and “productivity found by men such as Seigfried Gidion, and in Brave New World, Henry Ford who changed the way people thought about how to “make goods speedy.”,  In a technocracy society is loosely controlled by social custom and religious belief. It is believed that an unseen hand, or “an act of God” for the benefits of the human race to flourish. By the 1850s everything was made “more perfectly. ” This has a symbolic reference to Brave New World at the start of the novel by a man demonstrating the efficiency of making the greatest technology of all, humans. “With a single bokanovskified egg, ninety six identical twins can be (harvested).” (BNW 7). The main character was discontent or acting like a “luddite” which was a person who had “Naïve opposition of technology”(NP) However the technology had already spread like a disease and sparked a new kind of civilization. In Brave New World that civilization was full of brain dead “humans” who are doped up on “Soma” most days of the week. The “citizens did not know that science and technology did not provide philosophies in which to live.” In Brave New World it showed that the citizens and thought that the “Greater Being” wanted them to embellish the technologies and share their senses with everyone around them.  “Orgy- porgy” a childish game made up by the children was a sick term that allowed their thoughts and beliefs to be shared into a big melting pot of an orgy. The people in Brave New World were technopoly which meant that religion was not used and instead ignored and treated in the book such as dirt needing to be swept away.

Singularity "ManBot5000"

In the article " 2045 the year man becomes immortal" by Lev Grossman, it shows the unpredictability of the human race and how people’s creativity and style can be taken over with. For all of human existence, people have been making new advancements in the works of creating a better place for humans to live, however the idea that humans can and will make the product of our doom is chilling. The acts such as making the atomic bomb and the first mission to outer space showed the human race that we are advancing our science beyond anything that could be predicted. “Their rate of development would also continue to increase, because they would take over their own development from their slower-thinking human creators” and “it's impossible to predict the behavior of these smarter-than-human intelligences,” because of their unlimited storage capacity and how fast they process data from the world. Only by stopping the human desire to one up on each other and not wreak chaos among each other people can achieve freedom. In chapter six of the novel “A Brave New World” it shows the insecurity of a future clone who wonders why he is different compared to the rest of the masses. His small stature and intellectual mind set is different from the rest. “Alcohol in his blood surrogate.” Not only did the man and machine combine together, but the humans love being apart of it. They all can’t stand not being integrated into one being. “In a crowd” The main character hates because he strives for freedom just like the people today struggle to find something that puts them in the history books. Therefore the actions displayed by the “desperate boy” in “A brave new world” shows “impatience” and “gloominess” without technology, just like a teenager today! In the article, intelligence is catching up with us. “Their rate of development would also continue to increase.” Only by studying very hard and knowing the limit of progress for technology will humans survive. Technology can do only so much, after a while humans need to step in to survive for the best on Earth.

The Temptation in the Lives in all of us

Many people have seen the exciting trilogy Lord of the Rings  by J.R.R.Tolkien and read the books about a fantastic adventure full of deceit and betrayal. Most of the people have not established this work of fiction by the symbolic reasoning behind it. The "Ring" that was described as all powerful symbolizes the power that is sought of by many of the creatures. It is interesting to find out that the people who won were based on an agricultural atmosphere  "the Shire" compared to "Mount Doom" an industrial one. Also the temptation drilled into the life by the main character, "Frodo" would seem to be the symbolic temptation by the Bible. The temptations faced by the characters in the  novels have been unable to be conquered until the last possible moment by the main character. Thus symbolically people such as ourselves should not waste our time gathering items to gain more powerful, but rather use teamwork to combat the evil that inflicts everyone's life