Forms of Love
In Achebe's Things Fall Apart, we see self-love most expressed inthe character of Okonkwo. Okonkwo's accomplishments demonstrate anaffirmation of the strength, values, and beauty of the native Igbo culture. This culture is being systematically destroyed by British colonials.Okonkwo's self-love is viewed as a threat by the British, because herefuses to abandon his native values and customs. When he is killed,Obierika studies his dead form and poignantly expresses the negative impactof colonialism on Okonkwo's self-love and the Okonkwo people, "Our own menand our sons have already joined the ranks of the strangers...The white manis very clever...He has put a knife on the things that held us together andwe have fallen apart," (Achebe 1990, 159-160). In Hwang's M Butterfly, erotic love is expresses by Gallimard'serotic love for Song creates in him two decades of yearning for what isonly his ideal of love. Because Gallimard finds Song to be the embodimentof his white Western erotic fantasies of a submissive Asian woman. He isso controlled by his erotically driven pursuit of this fantasy that hebecomes blind to reality. Not overly desirable, Gallimard explains how he
How amI gonna know'" (Steinbeck 1992, 380). She is singinga song of glory to self and she knows she can survive as long as she neverforgets how to love. More than parent and child we are friends. I find that when I care enoughabout myself to express myself in this manner, it helps others also. I find I am oftenattracted to magazine or television images of attractive people inadvertisements. This not only feels good but it givesme hope that one day I will be able to fulfill my fantasies of such arelationship. The song isgraphic and repetitive in its display of erotic love, "Hey sexy lady, Ilike your flow / Your body's bangin, out of controooooooooooo! (Uh!),"(Shaggy 2003, 1). Self-love relates to my everyday life for I have practiced beingdirect and open with people for years now. I imagine what it would be like to enjoy their company in anintimate manner in a relationship. In Paul Simon's (2003) Mother and Child Reunion, the song is quitemelancholy.
Common topics in this essay:
Ma Joad,
Okonkwo Okonkwo's,
Child Reunion,
Gallimard Song,
Gaynor's Survive,
Sexy Lady,
Hwang's Butterfly,
Grapes Wrath,
Fall Apart,
Uh Shaggy,
erotic love,
2003 1,
everyday life,
ma joad,
parent child,
mother-child love,
hey sexy lady,
sexy lady,
hey sexy,
child friends,
mother child,
mother child reunion,
parent child friends,
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