Racism and gender inequality are two extremely significant, yet neglected issues that human society faces to this day. In the past, women and people of diverse skin color were stripped of many of their basic human rights. They were mistreated and judged simply because of their appearance and background. Many years of protesting and arguing have brought us to our current society. In the United States, women and all races are given equal rights. This may sound as though our country has put racism and
How Octavia Butler’s Life Connects to “Bloodchild” Will humans become slaves to an alien race? Will history repeat itself? Octavia Butler answered these questions and many more in her science fiction short stories. Butler was an African American woman dealing with both racism and sexism in her daily life as a writer. She wrote about this adversity in her stories and forces people to consider what it means to be human. In particular, “Bloodchild” deals directly with power imbalances and slavery in
Amanda Oswald ENG 379 Prof. Shaw 11 November 2014 Bloodchild Gender Experiences Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler is an obvious example of gender binaries and its consequences. Gilbert and Gubar write in their critical essay “No Man’s Land: Volume 1: The War of the Words” about the anxieties that come from this exact sort of writing that comes from Butler. The idea of the man being the bearer of children and ultimately the bearer of great pain while the woman is in control would add to the anxieties