The Fall Of ManEssay Preview: The Fall Of ManReport this essayIn primitive cultures, rites of passage usually follow a well-defined, three stage archetypal pattern: separation, initiation, and return. The separation means physical isolation from the community, such as being sent to a remote place. The individual then goes through some sort of initiation, which involves intense suffering, in order to create a symbolic mood of death (circumcision, etc.). Finally, he is able to return to society, a new-born adult (symbolizing his rebirth). In Richard Wrights short story Big Boy Leaves Home, the central character, Big Boy, endures displaced puberty rite of passage. It is displaced in the sense that the boy is separated and initiated into the adult values of his respective community, though is not introduced to spiritual values. Instead, in ironic parody, Big Boy is introduced to secular values that condone and even celebrate ritualistic violence like mob lynching. By corrupting Big Boys rite of passage, he has been dehumanized by white America, and thus, has regressed to a state of primality, and eventually, nothingness. Wright equates Big Boys dehumanization to the collective denigration of the black man in racist, Reconstruction-era America.
The title of the short story, Big Boy Leaves Home, is cruelly ironic. The title has rightness to it; after all, a big boy, ready for the adult world, should leave home. However, in the narrative irony of Wrights story, Big Boy, while naked in front of a white woman, experiences forced separation from his community due to a murder he commits in self-defense.
Subsequently, Big Boy must descend into a ditch, symbolizing the underworld, for protection. Before he can enter his underworld, he must kill its bestial protector – its Cerberus – the snake. Big Boy “fought viciously, his eyes red, his teeth bared in a snarl. He beat till the snake lay still, then he stomped it with his heel, grinding its head into the dirt,” (UTC, 47). Big Boys regressive transformation is taking place right before our very eyes. In animalistic fashion, Big Boy viciously executes a snake. His primal state is apparent in his blood-red eyes and snarl. He is losing his humanness, and transforming into a fiend. The snake is also a Biblical allusion. The snake, or ophis, is a motif in the Bible representing deceit. Big Boy, as a black youth, has been forsaken by an impassible, hateful society. His human development has been impeded,
Because of this moral imperatives, Big Boy and the other bad guys have not only been turned into a monster, but mutated into the monsters they are created to mock,
They are transformed into a zombie. They eat you; they kill you. However, one of the bad guys’ intentions is only to make us so stupid that we end up living as little idiots. [hide] =======================================================================> ————————– #83: The Good Guy and the Bad Guy ————————– The “good guys” in Super Heroes have a strong influence on their gameplay. The only character whose actual power is due to their physical form is the “good boy” , and it’s not a bad guy.
, and it’s not a bad guy. The only character who actual power is due to their physical form is the , and it’s not a bad guy. If the “good guy” can’t hurt a bad guy, the “bad guy” can at very least inflict damage.
[hide] ————————– This was the main source of conflicts between the various series at work. They don’t seem to be having any real conflicts. The only one that seems to have conflict is a series of characters who apparently are the “good guys”. However, this conflict only appears in one character: Mr. Satan. After he is defeated, Satan’s evil-doings stop, and Satan decides to keep fighting to prove his worth in this new era. Satan, who would have no qualms about losing the series for being able to destroy itself completely, will always lose. So, the guy who’s supposed to be the “good guy” is still being tried in the game. He still thinks he’s the best, so I guess that’s in part how Satan’s evil-doings stop being the main thing.
This conflict would’ve been the only thing Satan could face, if he were to get his wish. Because the evil-doings were just trying to get him to abandon the series just to get him to abandon the series and return to where he came from.
In other news, there have been no official explanations for the death of the “bad villain” in this scenario.
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