Category: Discrimination

Richard Wright is an African American author whose literature typically concerns racial themes. His literature especially relates to the plight of African Americans who suffered discrimination and racism during the 19th to mid-20th century. Through his novel, Native Son, Richard Wright is able to reveal the destructive nature of society as a whole. Wright suggests…

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, is a classic retrospective novel where Lee highlights the value of empathy in upholding and accepting diversity in society. Lee uses outsiders, people who are perceived as different, to demonstrate how a community’s ingrained, prejudicial views and ideas lead to discrimination. Through dramatic characterisation, representation of societal values within…

Introduction to Feminist Criticism and Gender Studies Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792), John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women (1869) and the American Margaret Fuller’s Women in the Nineteenth Century (1845) has started the struggle for identity of women writing imposing the socio-political, economic rights of women. These writers and…

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013) both follow a black female protagonist and their experiences with discrimination in a prejudiced society. Whilst racial and gender discrimination seem to only have negative effects on an individual, it plays a crucial role in the development of one’s personal identity. The Bluest…

Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, there are various situations concerning discrimination. In the 1930s many people across the nation had extreme prejudices against people of color. [The various forms of…

Introduction Discrimination is based on person prejudiced treatment or making a distinction towards. In the 1840s, the common discriminations are racial discrimination and sexism. Racial discrimination is any discrimination, for each person based on their racial, skin color and ethnic origin. Sexism is risen from social or cultural customs and norms. It is based on…

Introduction In last week of June 2019 at Yangon, Myanmar, a Liberian of Myanmar Imperial College (MIC), named, Kyaw Zin Win, did suicide after being bullied on his sexual orientation by coworkers. Before committing suicide by taking overdose of sleeping pills, he posted his reason on social media “I was afraid to do this, but…

In her novel, “To Kill A Mockingbird,” Harper Lee brilliantly dissects the predominance of racism in the 1930s. By allowing the reader to experience the book through the eyes of one of Maycomb County’s own citizens, Scout Finch, the author goes beyond simply telling examples of racism, but rather draws the reader into the lives…

America was founded on July 4, 1776. We celebrate this holiday known as, “the 4th of July”, or as “Independence Day”, every year. The Continental Congress declared that the thirteen American colonies were no longer subject to the monarch of Britain and were now free. This resulted in the Declaration of Independence signed on this…

Discrimination is, sadly, terribly powerful. just like an endemic, it will take several forms and is in a position to have an effect on anyone. Arguably, it shapes people’s lives for better or for worse. The novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini displays however discrimination plays a major role in shaping Hassan, Soraya and…