马克思主义批评论课件.pptVIP

The Battle Royal;American Dream; The belief in the American Dream blinds people to the reality that a vast number of people have not had and do not have equal opportunity in education, employment, or housing due to such factors as their gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic class.; The American Dream leads people to believe that poor people who are unable to improve their financial status must be shiftless and lazy or in some other way undeserving of decent living conditions. Therefore, those who don’t make it have only themselves to blame. Under this belief, the narrator is bland to achieve his American Dream, and he is meek and humble to please the whites.;Five Aspects ;;“Gentlemen, you see that I did not overpraise the boy. He makes a good speech and some day he’ll lead his people in the proper paths. And I don’t have to tell you that that is important in these days and times. This is a good, smart boy, and so to encourage him in the right direction…”;The narrator’s Alienation from His Community;“I felt superior to them in my way, and I didn’t like the manner in which we were all crowded together into the servants’ elevator. Nor did they like my being there. In fact, as the warmly lighted floors flashed past the elevator we had words over the fact that I, by taking part in the fight, had knocked one of their friends out of a night’s work.”;The significance of dancer;The meaning of the Battle Royal;The Battle Royal represents the white men’s “keep-them-fighting-among-themselves” strategy. As long as the oppressed are kept battling one another, they won’t join forces and turn against their oppressors. In fact, this is why the white men want the narrator to participate in the battle: he, too, must be kept down where he “belongs”.;The meaning of the dream;Thank you!