In society, sufferance, discrimination, and injustice are seen each and everyday. Any difference present in others will allow people to judge. This is the way people act even though they do not realize the impact. From the smallest act of discrimination, a person will suddenly feel like a victim. This feeling will have a negative effect on their life and it may result in sufferance. When people feel like a victim, it will change the way they act, think or even live. It is possible that this will change their social life, resulting in loneliness and depression. If a person is not in the victim’s shoes, they will not realize how the victim really feels. The problem is that acts of discrimination and injustice are present through many forms. …show more content…
Earlier in their lives, they have been mistreated many times. This makes it difficult for them to live their present lives without forgetting what has happened. Most of the time, memories are difficult to give up whether they are good or bad. For this reason, the pasts of both characters were constantly mentioned throughout their stories. Shylock and John Merrick were both physically and verbally abused. During the play, Shylock says, “You call me misbeliever, cutthroat dog, And spet upon my Jewish gaberdine—” (1.3.109-110). This quote reveals that Antonio called Shylock a cutthroat dog, proving that Antonio thinks Shylock is a criminal. Additionally, this informs the audience that Antonio has spat on Shylock in the past because he was a Jew. These are only two of the many ways Shylock has been mistreated in the past by society. John Merrick was clearly taken advantage of throughout the movie. He was not treated like a human and people around him acted as if he was an animal. To support this, he lived in a cage and he was known as a creature for freak shows (The Elephant Man). John Merrick was also given a name that which the whole town know of. He was known as an elephant man through the medium of his terrorizing past (The Elephant Man). These two examples prove that Merrick has lived through terrorizing events that can be quite difficult to forget. Therefore, both characters are similar because they have had deleterious histories as a result of sufferance, discrimination and
Throughout the play, Shylock was often reduced to something other than Human. In many cases, even the simple title of "Jew" was stripped away, and Shylock was not a man, but an animal. For example, Gratiano curses Shylock with "O, be thou damned, inexecrable dog!" (IV, i, 128) whose "currish spirit govern'd a wolf" (IV, i, 133-134) and whose "desires are wolvish, bloody, starved, and ravenous" (IV, i, 137-138). Or when Shylock is neither a man nor an animal, he becomes "a stony adversary, inhuman wretch" (IV, i, 4-5). When the Christians applied these labels to Shylock, they effectively stripped him of his humanity, of his religious identity; he was reduced to something other than human.
The author argues that in order for oppression to be vitally explored, the factors that create oppression must be realized. Oppression gives material advantage to the oppressor. "All social relations have material consequences". The author argues that all identities must be considered interconnected.
Discrimination is still a part of people’s daily lives today, that hasn't changed from 1955 making them feel unequal and unconfident about themselves. Bayan Zehlif is one incident that occurred during 2016 in Los Osos.
People are not one dimensional. Everyone has multiple identities that when combined, form who we are. The way these identities intersect shape our realities, impact how we experience life, and influence the way we are treated by others within society. The Intersecting Axes of Privilege, Domination, and Oppression diagram addresses multiple identities such as gender, sex, race, age, class, sexual orientation, etc. The identities examined in the diagram visualize that people are more likely to have privilege or face oppression depending on their classification within a specific identity. Due to intersectionality, many experience both privilege and oppression simultaneously. The four oppressive systems that have impacted my life in various ways are race, sex, heritage, and language bias.
This oppression and discrimination is experienced through several forms of oppression including violence, racism classism and sexism not only at a personal level but also at the structural level. This high risk population is vulnerable for internalizing the oppression as an accepted norm. Mullaly believes that “people may be given certain rights but still be unable to exercise their rights due to particular social constraints based on class, gender, race and ethnicity.”
In today’s society victimization exists but not as harsh as it was in the 19th century. The world has started to be more accepting towards change. However, people still face the oppression of their thoughts, choices, and values. Women for example, are sometimes not paid as much as a male doing the same job. For both sexes, however more for females, there is victimization based on their body image. They are restricted to look,eat, and act a certain way. There is also a disconnect between the poor and the rich. Where, the poor are treated different in a negative way. The same goes for Aboriginals and immigrants. Lastly, relationships play an important part in one’s life because it defines their ideals. In order to have a healthy relationship, there must be proper communication, understanding of one another’ views, and the ability to freely express themselves. However many people become victim to unstable relationships.
In a society, the discrimination is wrong, we should try to end it now; besides, discriminations make people being have a distance when they stand near each other. We need develop this society lives by unity; furthermore, I believe only unity is a super power to improve our life without discrimination of races, sex, religions, because “united we stand, divided we fall.” Everybody has an equal right in life; we should refuse discrimination in society; if we know changes, then everything will become a miracle bring the happiness to everybody.
Vivienne Ming once said, “Discrimination is not done by villains. It’s done by us.” Many do not recognize or acknowledge discrimination. Most of the time, individuals allow discrimination to be classified as bullying. However, true discrimination is real. It comes in various forms and it is the population’s job to be familiar with it and use that knowledge to destroy it. Racial, appearance-based, sexual, and religious discrimination all hugely affect friendships/relationships, the workplace, and society as a whole.
Many authors have examined the nature of discrimination and ties between oppression and discrimination, I plan to utilise Neil Thompson’s PCS model, this model is frequently used through social work and services. Thompson looks at discrimination as originating from the interplay of actions and values at the personal level of our feelings and thoughts of our own, which are largely inclined
According to Lee Anne Bell’s “Theoretical Foundations,” from Reading for Diversity and Social Justice, social justice is described as a society that contributes to one another and has its resources. In addition, people living in the society can feel safe and secure. Although, the idea of social justice is interfered with oppression. Bell describes a few main features that set up the issue with oppression which include pervasive, restrictive, hierarchical, complex, multiple and cross cutting relationships. She describes pervasive as a better transition towards oppression instead of using discrimination, bias, and prejudice. The study can be further investigated with other readings from RDSJ, such as “Taking the Indian Out of the Indian” by Grinde
We live in a world full of many societal issues. The aspects that determine whether one will have a successful or unsuccessful life is due to their characteristics such as race, gender, and social status. In the book Is Everyone Really Equal, Ozlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo’s exigence is to express the following issues and to encourage the reader to work upon changing the world through social injustice, oppression, power, and community.
Overall discrimination is an awful thing. It is like a STD, it can be passed from parent to child, or someone can become infected if you don’t watch out. Discrimination is also like the plague. It sweeps over a large amount of people, infecting most, and most don’t survive. Though today much of the discrimination is gone, just like the plague, but it is still there. Unfortunately for some people, they have to deal with people discrimination from others. Whether it be discrimination of one’s race, age, disability, or gender. Discrimination has numerous damaging effects to someone’s life. In Of Mice and Men the unlucky victims of discrimination also suffer from the same effects. They allow for people to have control of them and walk all over them. Discrimination is like a fire... It hurts.
When we allow this shadow of societal norms to dictate our choices and actions, we internalize all of the rules of society that work against us. From racism to sexism to homophobia to everything in between, these shadows haunt us to the point where they become a part of us, and we allow them to run our lives out of fear of what will happen if we don’t. This is called internalized discrimination. So first, let’s face our shadows head-on as we find the roots of this self imposed oppression, and then we’ll hide under our covers as we look at the effects, until finally, we leave our shadows in the dark with our solutions.
The signs of oppression in humanity are not always evident, but they always have an immense impact on one’s life. Oppression by Jimmy Santiago Bacca shows just how oppression can have a massive toll on one’s demise, making you feel as if you are lower than someone, getting hurt until you shed tears and losing hope in your life but you keep fighting and never give up. Oppression occurs for different reasons such as culture, race, and religion, but the effects of oppression are always similar. Consequently, the effects of oppression always cause one to feel lower than another person with a different culture, race, and religion. These pessimistic effects can also be seen in Bacca’s poem, which states that oppression causes you to feel as if you
Shylock is a wealthy Jew who invests money into shipments and trades. When Shylock’s enemy, Antonio, requests a loan of 3000 ducats, “Shylock adopts this Christian model of "kind" lending in his bond with Antonio as a means for lawful revenge.” Shylock’s agreement is that if the ducats are not returned, Antonio must repay his loan in human flesh. This is a way for Shylock to either make money or kill a Christian, either will satisfy him. Lee describes Shylock’s feelings towards Christians, “Indeed, although Shylock will neither "eat," "drink," nor "pray" with the Christians, he is willing to "buy" and "sell" with them.” This is where Shakespeare first introduces the devil inside Shylock. Had Antonio been a Jew, there would not have been a payment of flesh. Shylock’s hatred propels the story from start to finish. His hatred causes him to lose his daughter, drives Portia to use her money and wit to save Antonio, and why he ends up losing