Essay On Domination And Hegemony

Knowing the distinction between reality and perception is critical to an organized and effective society. Since the dawn of societies and civilizations, perception from the ruling elite persuades everyone into believing in one ideology, a worldview that justifies and legitimates the social order and mediates contradictions within it, which leads to inequality, and can be found by two means: domination and hegemony. Domination, exercising power through coercive rule, alone is costly, unstable, and often not effective; people can and often do resist actively under such control. Additionally, hegemony is, by its definition, never absolute or complete, thereby there is always resistance. This resistance is often found in three, common abnormalities,

In yet another Chuck Jones’s animation, “One Froggy Evening,” a construction worker dreams of becoming rich. One day, his life changes forever: he finds a singing-and-dancing frog who performs only for one person, our greedy protagonist. Out of greed, the worker spends all of his money on a theater where he sets out to have the frog perform, which he believes will make him rich and famous; however, the man becomes homeless and discards the terrible frog, realizing that he is better off without him. Another example, “The Bear That Wasn’t” centers on a bear who wakes from a hibernation to find himself in the midst of a factory. He is told by the foreman to return to work after the bear informs him that he is indeed a bear. The man instead tells his supervisor, and all tell the bear the same. The businessmen and the bear even goes to the zoo bears, and the zoo bears believe that the bear is a silly man too because he is not in a cage like they are. The factory in this story represents greed by showing the higher-class positions: foreman, vice-presidents, and president. Another example is the use of symbolic imagery in the cartoon where the businessmen have red stock-market arrows flashing on their skin. Lastly, John McPhee’s short story “In Search of Marvin Gardens” concerns a competitive monopoly game between his friend and the author of the story. It explains the real places, giving the reader a taste of the realness of the story behind the game. Mr. McPhee describes the beauty of Atlantic City; for example, he compares Vermont Avenue space on the game board to Vermont Avenue in Atlantic City, where he spots a pack of dogs moving about the squalid and despicable streets. He uses colorful descriptions and explains how people connect greed to their surroundings by writing that “the street where one lives is part of one’s intimate experience” (“In Search of Marvin