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Connections Between Texts
Oryx and Crake
Nature
Powerful
Nature restores itself at an immense speed after the pandemic
Vulnerable
The corporations such as OrganInc could easily take advantage of the animals and genetically modify them for their own benefit. For example, they took pigs and turned them into pigoons to grow human tissue and organs.
Global Concept Connection: Man's exploitation of nature
Jimmy's Mum: Physical advocate for nature. She recognises that those who are in power are selfish and ignorant similar to the miner's who also do not realise that they destroying nature. She says "More people with the brains of pigs. Don't we have enough of those already. Jimmy's mum in some ways subverts the general stereotype of women as she talks back to those in power rather than watching them exploitation those who are vulnerable.
In Oryx and Crake Jimmy's mum is one of the physical advocates who stand for the land to gain back its power
All of Humanity
In Oryx and Crake people misused the Earth to only benefit themself. They genetically modified animals and nature to fulfil their materialistic needs. As there are many different corporations within The Compounds Atwood asserts to the whole of humanity where the future is heading if we continue to misuse science and technology.
Atwood also criticises the whole of humanity for their actions. It is not about race or ethnicity but about humans as a whole.
Oryx takes control over Jimmy when she holds onto information about herself that he desperately wants to know. Oryx continuously has little power throughout the novel and hence any power she can grasp onto she will take. Jimmy constantly asks her about her past but she refuses to tell him. This is one way she can take control particularly over men as in her past they had control over her.
Maus
Representation
It links to how people are more than just their appearance and that the more complex characteristics are harder to grasp.
Page 210: Spiegelman shows how he struggles as a creator to portray the identity of victims during the Holocaust. This can be seen when the face of the mouse changes to the face of a cat.
It is interesting how Spiegelman was able to convey this through graphic weighting compared to how Szymborksa who conveyed this through rhetorical questions and symbolism.
Religious Persecution
Spiegelman's use of the motif of the Star of David and
Swastika shows the forced divide between groups because of one's religion. It shows how these symbols were used to isolate people as members of a group because those who were Jewish were punished for following this religion.
Pg. 246-247- the mice are locked on the train and deprived of food and water. They live in very poor conditions as they travel to concentration camps.
The past entwines with the future
Spiegelman represents the complicated entwining of the past and present by "packing" the tight spaces of the panels. For example, through dialogue, we see how Spiegelman feels constantly guilty for what his father lived through.
Pg 210 - Panels from the present interrupt the panels from the past
Love can provide a character the motivation and determination to survive during war
Vladek risks his life for his love for Anja. He attempts in crossing the camp's fence to see her but it is his love that gives him the motivation to continue to fight and survive the war.
The war had an impact on everyone - even people in the next generation
Maus highlights the impact of war on all mice by illustrating large crowds of mice in many of its panels. Even though the story is told from Vladek's perspective most panels have groups of mice in the background. These mice are often drawn in a shadow or from behind showing that this could be any mouse. Despite that the mice were a representation of the Jews, the cats were representations of the Germans, which shows how the war had an impact on everyone.
Szymborksa
Portrait of Memory
The bird in this poem is symbolic of the flying freedom to construct, remember and represent someone as who you believe them to be.
SOI: Szymborska is trying to show me people's struggle in representing someone accurately, as humans are highly complex beings
Here
"We've got" - Inclusive Pronouns: Szymborska does not criticise man's harm to Earth towards one ethnic group or race but towards all people.
"Your're given your own" - Direct Address: Szymborska conveys how it is our own responsibility to act and develop as a person.
Oodgeroo
Municipal Gum
The gum tree also has no power. As the city expands around it the gum tree has been placed in bitumen where it has been deprived of life and nutrients.
Humans needs come before nature - the 'gum' rather than 'gum tree' shows how it is no longer connected to the natural world but a part of the cityscape.
The Past
The past will always affect the present
Oodgeroo knows that her Aboriginal culture will always live within her even when her current environment is a Western way of living. - "A thousand thousand camp fires in the forest / Are in my blood"
Time is Running Out
The land cannot fight back for itself but their are people who can fight for it. Nature is weak when it doesn't have a physical advocate for it
Oodgeroo shows her anger towards those who exploit nature because of they have superiority and do this without realising
Colour Bar
Oodgeroo discusses her disdain towards racial prejudice - through asserting her disgust of the way people treat each other Oodgeroo can feel that she is reclaiming some of the power she has lost because of the white man taking over. Her political poems bring awareness to the Indigenous voice to express the pain and unequal treatment of the Indigenous people.
Antigone
Antigone was a extremely outspoken woman who was sentenced to death because of her high beliefs in divine law. As result of this is the Creon looked her up in a cave and there she will starve to death.
Speaks about the idea that if you are not adaptable then you will suffer.
Ismene is the only real character who wants to follow both divine law and human law. Even though she follows both religions she dies at the end of the play. Ismene represents how there is no resolution between divine law and man's law.
Heart of Darkness
Violation of Human Rights - the right to freedom from torture and inhumane treatment
The Europeans violated this right when they forced the Africans to work in poor conditions when mining for ivory. (Pg. 19-20)
Conrad also dehumanises the Africans in the way he represents them. He says that they are no more than black shadows of disease and starvation. Much of his descriptions are about their appearance and if it is about their personality, it is a generalised description.
Heart of Darkness also shows nature's vulnerability as it is exploited for the mining of ivory. It too is exploited for man's benefit of the profit made from the ivory trade.
Equus
Hester is a contrast to the generalised stereotype of women in the 1970's. She understands emotion and assertive. This can be seen when she directly tells Dysart that it is his responsibility to help Alan. She has logic which is important because this is a contrast to Dysart's character.
A lack of education can confuse adolescents on how to behave properly in society
Due to Alan's lack of education, he struggles to worship in what would be considered a conventional way. Instead of praying to Equus Alan decides to ride it naked around a square. As a result, he gets into trouble as his passion took over.
Sorrow of War
Past trauma taints the present
For years after the war, Kien constantly sees flashbacks to the war. He says the ceiling fan looks and sounds like the sound of a helicopter propeller and feels the walls are caving in on him. This indicates how the trauma of the past is never forgotten and taints the present time.
Love can sustain life
Kien also experiences how love is what sustains life in a time of conflict both internally and surrounding the character. Kien love for Phuong was one of the only connections he had during the war and this is what motivated him to continue fighting and survive. It can be easier to continue fighting when you know you are doing it for someone you love.
The Visit
Reclaiming power
Clara holds onto her power by holding onto her previous husbands. She wants to make sure they don't get the opportunities she didn't get. Some experiences Clara faced losing both of her limbs or becoming a prostitute. One way she tries to reclaim her power is by holding onto her husbands.
Clara also reclaims her power by giving all of the men the same name. This is done to indicate that the men are interchangeable and a second way that Clara reclaims some of the power she lost when she became a prostitute as back then she was controlled by men.
There is the principle that one must suffer to relieve the suffering of everyone else
The one who suffers is Ill. The town has been promised 1 billion dollars if he dies. Since everyone in the town is poor, this amount of money could turn their lives around but one person has to be killed so everyone else can receive this money.
The Plague
One must suffer so everyone else does not become infected
The town of Oran goes into lockdown after the plague gets out of control. Rambert is one character that struggles with this the most as he cannot leave to see his girlfriend in Paris but because he can't leave and no one can come in, the spread of disease decreases.
No one is exempt from tragedy
The character of Grand represents the 'everyman', the character of Rieux represents an expert in the field, Tarrou represents someone who is not from the town but all of them are impacted by the plague. In different ways, all three characters experience something difficult because of the plague and hence no one is exempt from tragedy.