inhabitants of Oceania to set forth an example. The audience is exposed to contrasting views of the Party through Winston’s narrative and dialogue, allowing for various conclusions to be drawn. It is likely readers from the capitalist United States and authoritarian North Korea would interpret 1984 differently due to conflicting opinions of dictatorship, methods used to control the population, and the necessity of war. Americans would view the Inner Party of Oceania as oppressive and against basic human rights
This found in the totalitarian and regimes in Haiti, as well as, the lives in America. The betrayal of women by men could be part of Danticta’s own personal life experience bleeding into her novel. Danticat was born in Haiti and moved to America at age twelve, to settle in New York. The author being a female from Haiti is important to understand why she uses female protagonists in her novel that suffer
The trickster is typically depicted as either a “selfish buffoon, in which uses his smarts to deceive people for personal motives or pleasure, or a “cultural hero” where he uses this wit to help the oppressed and improve society (Carroll, 1984:106). Tricksters in African stories more often than not takes on the role of a “cultural hero,” versus the “selfish buffoon”
This is done from both the Gethenian perspective and Ai’s own. About the Gethenian one, the author has explained that it was one of her thought experiments – what would a society look like if the population was largely asexual? One of her conclusions, albeit one that stands on shaky ground, is that there would be no wars, with another being that the lack of sexual manipulation would lead to such a concept as shifgrethor, with its moral