Nature as Nurture: The Role of the Physical in the Journey to Enlightenment
Thinkers from all ages argue that we, as beings, are restricted by the physical world. Whether it be a heaven or some greater truth, there exists a metaphysical world which is unreachable through physical means.
American Eulogy: Dissecting the Proverbial Death of New York in Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Beyond
In examining both Hamid’s novel and the world that it is reflecting, it becomes clear that for Changez and many people like him, the “America” of New York, that global city, died in 2001.
Societal Alienation and Discontent: Freud and Marx on Our Relationship with Love, Libido, and Labour
Thus, the pain of Freud’s reality principle is minimized, if not outright eliminated, and the development of the ego begins to look much more like that of Marx and Engels’ universal individual.
“The compassionate heart finds not any comfort, but dreads an eternal separation”
She uses compassion to help ground her sense of self, but is ultimately left at the end of the text with “a void” (148) in her heart as she comes to the realisation that the comfort of compassion is ephemeral and fleeting.
Never Enough: Frantz Fanon and Identity
Whiteness as a social structure is perhaps the most pervasive descriptor of difference, being, and non-being. Structures of whiteness and being formally delimit the identities, bodies, and lives of non-white people.