Symbols that associate with the color white do not mean purity and holiness; instead, white represents the power, corruption, and downfall of man. Even a white lie, which does not harm another person, has the intention of preserving evil. ... Ironically, the blacks are with less darkness and evil. ... These whites represent evil powers over the innocent, hardworking blacks in their native land. ... The color white is a symbol for evil and ominous signs. ...

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Symbols that associate with the color white do not mean purity and holiness; instead, white represents the power, corruption, and downfall of man. Even a white lie, which does not harm another person, has the intention of preserving evil. ... Ironically, the blacks are with less darkness and evil. ... These whites represent evil powers over the innocent, hardworking blacks in their native land. ... The color white is a symbol for evil and ominous signs. ...

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Throughout the years the theme of good versus evil has been used in various novels. ... Both novels have accurately demonstrated the origins of evil. ... Another example of the origins of evil would be Herman Melville's Benito Cereno. ... The characters that closely represent Hobb's theory would be Babo and the slaves. ... They were truly evil and possessed the ability to be evil and animalistic. ...

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By giving motherhood strength, Stowe is saying that mothers will be the ones to end the evil of slavery, and the family will be saved through the power of motherly love. ... Stowe represents the mothers in Uncle Tom's Cabin as strong willed, with deeper Christian family values than their husbands because she believes that the reader will identify with these strong mothers who are capable of keeping the family united and overcoming the evils of slavery. ...

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One of the most effective ways Mark Twain represents the notion that the idea of slavery is hypocritical is through his use of characters such as Miss Watson and Widow Douglas. ... Including this friendship in the story represents the idea that race plays no factor in determining who a person really is. ... Throughout the novel, Twain emphasizes the enormous capacity for evil that the white people have. However, he also demonstrates that not all white people are evil. ...

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He is the epitome of an evil character, and prides himself on it. ... (Aaron V. iii 185-190) Aaron learned to be evil because he was in the service of evil, cruel hearted people. ... He is surrounded by evil, so he is evil. ... He guides them in ways to fulfill their most evil desires. ... This represents the fact that he is not in control of his own life. ...

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He is the epitome of an evil character, and prides himself on it. ... (Aaron V. iii 185-190) Aaron learned to be evil because he was in the service of evil, cruel hearted people. ... He is surrounded by evil, so he is evil. ... He guides them in ways to fulfill their most evil desires. ... This represents the fact that he is not in control of his own life. ...

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The middle class represented almost 65% of the population of the North, until the start of the Industrial Revolution. ... The regions had different economic means, but both regions thought of slavery as evil. Daniel Webster said of slavery that, "it will be found, sir, that there was no great diversity of opinion between the North and the South upon the subject of slavery; and it will be found that both parts of the country held it equally an evil- a moral and political evil"(Webster 249). The majority of men in the South thought of slavery as an evil and the issue of slavery could have bee...

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As well as Stressing Caliban's bestiality, critics pointed out that Caliban was Ariel's opposite, "the other" in a binary opposition between body and spirit, evil and good, guilt and innocence-a view that fits well with eighteenth-century moral certainties. ... He was not evil by nature, they argued, but he acquired the European's vices rather than virtues. ... The gentle Ariel was the symbol of Spanish-American civilization at its best while Caliban represented North American civilization at its worst. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The slaves had been freed, yet they faced new evils-violence, intimidation, and segregation. ... In the fable, "Emancipation, a Life Fable", the animal that had been encaged represents a slave who is being freed. ... Each time he goes, he gets closer and closer to the door, and he sees more Light, which represents freedom. ...

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Being a life saver doesn't just happen at birth, it takes a life span and development to be capable of fitting into your superman pants. Moses was a leading man who followed God's orders to lead his people out of darkness and into greatness. Moses job was to free the people from slavery and through ...

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Frederick Douglass The work of Douglass was one of the first African-American literary works, an important autobiography representing the black culture. ... He invoked moral questions about the evilness of slavery. ...

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The "gospel train" of the song likely represented an escape method, such as the Underground Railroad. ... Most cultures believed in one almighty God, and the ideas of good and evil. ... "Much in Black English that seems grammatically incorrect actually represents the consistent application of African structural principles." ...

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Christians believe that Christ was crucified by evil in order to bear the heavy burdens of the world. ... Captain Auld, even after his "conversion," remains a figure of evil, contradictory to God's innocence and goodness, represented by Henny. ...

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Therefore we can assume that, unlike Wide Sargasso Sea, the book is set a vaguely-defined recent past which is interesting in considering the different histories represented: is it a stable society where ten years here or there doesn't make a difference? ... As Susan Meyer describes, 'Bronte is using the emotional force of the idea of slavery and explosive race relations in the wake of British emancipation to represent the tensions of the gender hierarchy in England'. ... To draw on Susan Meyer once more, she states, 'By making these sly, intermittent allusions to non-whi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout the early 16th century, through to the mid 18th century, slavery and forced labour was widespread in Europe and the New World, particularly in America. Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 by the ...

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Outside the black race is a collection of characters that display the many evils of racism. ... The black stallion represents an object that is just beyond the control of man but one that all men will strive to achieve, even if it means their demise. ...

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Introduction The Middle Passage is the crossing of the Ocean from Africa to America of African people, who passed from the state of liberty to the state of slavery, and took place between the XVI and XIX centuries. They were captured from the tribes situated on Africa's West Coast: Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Senegal, etc. and they were shipped in the southern area of North America (Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida). The Diaspora gives birth to a new human being: the African American, who links together the African and the Ame...

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King Leopold's Ghost tells a story of the Belgian King Leopold II and his misrule of an African colony, named (at the time) the Congo Free State. It is a wild and unpleasant story of a man's capacity for evil and the peculiar manifestation of it. In telling this story, Hochschild does a wonderful jo...

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Before the Civil War, America was plagued with a complicated social quandary that incorporated individual, societal, political, economic, and religious principles. This taboo of a topic found itself well-versed throughout the country in many publications. Its authorship included Frederick Douglass...

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Both serve as compact symbols representing the ideology of their own generations. ... They knew slavery was wrong but as James Madison wrote in 1787, "Great as the evil of slavery is, a dismemberment of the union would be worse." ...

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• Grade Level: High School