Not Happily Ever After, After All In "Once Upon A Time,"" Nadine Gordimer creates a reverse fairy tale in order to represent her views of apartheid South Africa. ... This conflict is usually good versus evil. ... This represents the good versus evil conflict that is taking place in apartheid South Africa. ... The white people in South Africa represent the witch of fairy tales, because they provoke the bad things that happen in the country. The "DRAGON'S TEETH"" represent the weapons used against the black people. ...

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As usual, however, Delano quickly dismisses this idea of evil and his prejudicial mindset takes over. ... Perhaps Amasa Delano represents the American outlook on slavery at the time. ... The authors' perspectives on evil are reflected through the main characters of their stories. ... Hawthorne and Melville demonstrate how the worst type of evil comes in the most unexpected form. ... Delano can also be compared to Goodman Brown of Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown", as they are both blind to evil, and Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville share a similar insight on the natu...

• Word Count: 1557
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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 media stereotype of bad guys wearing black or that anything that is black is evil has been encouraged for over a hundred years. ... She was known to have a temper and take it out on the family especially her husband, which was mostly represented as a Sambo. ... This image represented the sexual side of African-American women. Jezebel was normally represented as a light-skinned, biracial woman, who normally looked European. ... Sambo represented the insolent, lazy, happy slave. ...

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and Harper Lee seems to be able to offer no explanation as to what to do with inherently evil characters such as Mr Ewell. ... Challenged Stereotypes- Blacks - Viewed as either evil or stupid but lovable childlike people. ... Both characters show kindness: Boo to the children and Tom to Mayella Both are innocent: Boo of his evil persona and Tom of the crime of rape wwcc ccw esccccs aycc ccba ncc kccc ccuk; Both are victims of prejudice Both are imprisoned and potentially vulnerable: Boo is imprisoned to protect him from prejudice and Tom is imprisoned and killed as a result...

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August Wilson writes the dramatic play entitled "Fences- with extensive use of metaphors to represent human situations in a perspective uniquely held by a black man, yet complicated by many other factors in life. ... The fence may be a device, which represents restraint of access or possibilities such as a black person in a white person's controlled era and place. ... Wilson does not portray the characters as poor helpless souls in a sea of self-pity at the mercy of the evil white man. ...

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[the fact] that I wasn't represented in history...either as a female or as a black person.""... Part of my political and personal mandate is to represent life in all of its complexities, in its fullness."" ... One critic said, "Thomas and Beulah represents Dove's rethinking of the lyric poet's relation to the history of blackness. ... The other theme represented by Dove's writing is the theme of women's rights. ...

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Pratt also notes that contact zones can have a negative effect in that they promote evils like colonialism and slavery. ... But it is still "autoethnography," which means the way in which subordinate peoples present themselves in ways that the dominant culture has represented them. ...

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They represent a natural black woman instead of a commercialized black woman who has been brainwashed by European ideology that claims that black hair must be straightened, or black skin must be lightened in order to be heard. ... In the lips of some, it meant the expectation of a speedy summons to a world of spirits; but, in the lips of our company, it simply meant, a speedy pilgrimage toward a Free State, and deliverance from all the evils and dangers of slavery (Douglas 184). ...

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"As long as black rage continues to be represented as always and only evil and destructive, we lack a vision of militancy that is necessary to transformative revolutionary action." (109) The media sees black rage as destructive and bad, but if the media saw it in the opposite way, what would that mean for blacks? ...

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In the novel, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, the evils inflicted upon blacks by a white society indoctrinated by the inherent beauty of whiteness and ugliness of blackness are thoroughly depicted. ... (Morrison 91) According to critic Madonne Miner Pecola, for Geraldine, figuratively represents everythingugly, dirty, and degrading? ...

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This central theme of the triumph of good over evil is no doubt the source of the book' s great success. ... Through both mediums, people realize that the sexual abuse Celie endures from her stepfather and husband represents how all women should break free from this cycle so that they can be seen as individuals and not sex objects. ...

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Langston Hughes' Role in the Harlem Renaissance? Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was born in Joplin, Missouri and educated at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He published his first poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers,"" in Crisis magazine in 1921 and studied at Columbia University from 1921 to 1922...

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In the novel, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, the evils inflicted upon blacks by a white society indoctrinated by the inherent beauty of whiteness and ugliness of blackness are thoroughly depicted. ... She saw the safety pin holding the hem of the dress up (Morrison 91) According to critic Madonne Miner Pecola, for Geraldine, figuratively represents everything "ugly, dirty, and degrading- (Miner 94). ...

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Phillis Wheatley was the first African American poet published in the United States. The subject matter in the majority of her poems reflected her religious views and her new life in revolutionary New England. She believed that through finding God in one's life, salvation and mercy would follow. She was constantly overcoming stepping-stones to prove her literary talents and ability. Phillis Wheatley's perseverance and strong character, allowed her to find God in her own life and seek salvation. ...

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• Grade Level: High School