Pursuit Of Fairness In Don Quixote

The Pursuit of Fairness

In his 1961 speech to New York University entitled “The Future of Integration,” Martin Luther King Jr. told students, “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” These steps toward the goal of attaining justice—sacrifice, suffering and struggle—manifest themselves in many different ways across different cultures, and are highly dependent upon social, political, and economic factors. Don Quixote, History of a Voyage to The Land of Brazil, a mercy, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass are related in that they each detail some individual or

He portrays Quixote as obsessed with the idealistic beliefs of chivalry and, therefore, out of touch with reality. The ineffectiveness of Quixote’s attempts to enforce justice through the laws of chivalry becomes apparent when Sancho and Quixote run into a chained gang of galley slaves. Quixote thinks the slaves are being done an injustice by being held against their will and asks each one of the slaves to explain the circumstances that led to his imprisonment. The criminals all come up with false accounts that suggest their innocence, claiming they have

In her book a mercy, Morrison conveys one perspective of justice by having Florens express her feelings of anger, confusion, and sadness in the Vaark’s newly built mansion. After having been denied the ability to record her experiences for so long, Florens had a need to release her pent-up thoughts. She rights the injustice of her forced silence by eternally etching her story into the walls and floors of the mansion, forcing anyone who enters the house to become aware of her story. Until recently, Americans’ ideas of slavery have been primarily shaped by accounts written from masculine, privileged perspectives. Though today many authors have offered different perspectives on slavery, inaccurate representations of the period still linger in today’s society and still heavily affect Americans’ view of slavery. Toni Morrison writes a mercy in order to combat this injustice by educating people about early slavery culture and exposing the roots of racism in America. Morrison uses Douglass’ technique of attaining justice by educating the masses in order to change the way modern society views slavery. She brings to attention the whitewashing of literature regarding slave culture by