Running in the 1900s

Betty and I addressed negative personhood during our panel presentation. I wanted to give my personal thoughts on this subject. The author of the article defines negative personhood as having one's identity being removed and how this was prevalence throughout the West Indies as shown in the Wide Saragossa Sea (WSS). The article talks about negative personhood as a "2nd" death. Where one death is the physical death where you physically die while the other death is the social death. Additionally, the author also addresses laws and writing playing a part in condemning someone into social death. This is demonstrated when Antoinette properties were transferred onto Mr.Rochester when she married onto him. Stripping her of her home and anything to go back to if she tries to stray from Rochester. Another example is Christophine's obeah practices. Before the law entered the scene, Christophine held some respect within society because of her knowledge of magic. But when Obe...

Meursault was handed a death sentence after his conviction. But we must ask, does Mersault really deserve a death sentence? In class, we have looked at the court's view on the Arab. They weren't significant in convicting Meursault. They were simply a side piece that was there, they weren't named. The court was more focused on his mentality rather than the crime he committed. Even then, he would be serving a sentence for 2nd-degree murder which is just usually a time in prison. Meursault in his testimony would no way be worse than a hard-core criminal that needs to be completely eradicated from society. His testimony was honest which also should have been accounted in court. He didn't try to weasel out of a sentence in court. Meursault does claim that the sun was influencing him to commit the murder. And it has been shown throughout the book that the sun influences his emotion (i.e making him angry, happy, or commit murder). If the court wants to judge him based on hi...