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Writing Project 1: Voltaire in the Modern World Shivkumar Patel on Wed, Sep 29 2021, 3:29 PM
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Part 1
1 THE DOWNFALL TALKS ABOUT THE SAD TALE OF DALLIN A MIDDLE-AGED
COMMUNITY LEADER OF THE SHADOW PEOPLE; AN ANCIENT COMMUNITY THAT
RESIDES IN THE AMAZON FOREST AND IS CUT OFF FROM CIVILIZATION. THIS TRIES TO
EDUCATE THE PEOPLE ABOUT POLITICS AND WHAT GOES AROUND THE POLITICAL
CIRCLES. THE THREE SECTIONS OF THE NOVELS NARRATE DALLIN’S STRUGGLES TO
GAIN STATUS AND PRESTIGE IN HIS COMMUNITY. DALLIN A SKILLED HUNTER TAKES
PRIDE IN HIS SKILLS, TITLES, AND WEALTH; HE FEARS FAILURE AND HATES ALL THAT IS
COWARDICE, WEAK, AND LAZY. FURTHERMORE, DALLIN IS DEEPLY EMBARRASSED AND
FRUSTRATED BY HIS OLDER BROTHER WHO IS LAZY, A WOMANIZER AND HAS DEBTS
ALL THROUGHOUT THE VILLAGE; DALLIN’S SUCCESS IS TIED TO THE FACT THAT HE
NEVER WANTED TO END UP LIKE HIS OLDER BROTHER. IN THE TALE, DALLIN IS
APPOINTED AS THE HEAD AND THE KEEPER OF THE COMMUNITY PRISON THAT HOLDS
PRISONERS OF WAR FROM RIVAL COMMUNITIES WITHIN THE AMAZON FOREST. AT AN
UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT, DALLIN ALLOWS PRISONERS TO ESCAPE, WHICH LEADS TO
HIS BANISHMENT FROM THE COMMUNITY. AFTER SEVEN YEARS, DALLIN RETURNS TO A
COMMUNITY PLAGUED BY WHITE MISSIONARIES AND A COLONIAL GOVERNMENT. IN AN
ATTEMPT TO RESIST THE MISSIONARIES, DALLIN AND OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS
BURN DOWN THE NEWLY CONSTRUCTED COMMUNITY CHURCH; NONETHELESS, DALLIN
AND HIS FRIENDS ARE HUMILIATED AND JAILED. IN HIS LAST DITCH EFFORT TO SHOW
HIS BRAVERY AND WIN BACK ADMIRATION, DALLIN KILLS A COLONIAL MESSENGER,
BUT THE COMMUNITY FAILS TO RALLY BEHIND HIM. FINALLY, DALLIN HANGS HIMSELF
AN ACT THAT VIOLATES THE CULTURE OF THE SHADOW PEOPLE AND PREVENTS HIM
FROM GETTING A PROPER FUNERAL.
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THE INTRODUCTORY PART OF THE TALE DESCRIBES THE CHILDHOOD OF DALLIN AND
HIS CONCERTED EFFORT TO DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM THE EXAMPLE OF HIS
IMPRUDENT AND LAZY ELDER BROTHER AND TO MAKE HIMSELF AN ADMIRED AND
SUCCESSFUL MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY. THE BEAUTY ABOUT THE SHADOW
PEOPLE’S CULTURE IS THAT IT ALLOWS DALLIN TO ELEVATE HIMSELF TO THE PINNACLE
OF SOCIETY THROUGH ACTS OF BRAVERY, COURAGE, STRENGTH, AND ENDURANCE.
Dallin’s early years were full of triumph and
1 SUCCESS AS A BRAVE HUNTER AND WARRIOR AND WAS COMPLIMENTED BY HIS GOOD
FARMING SKILLS, AND WITH TIME, HE IS ABLE TO MARRY AND SUPPORT THREE WIVES
AND SEVERAL CHILDREN. THE SHADOW PEOPLE SHOW THEIR RESPECT FOR DALLIN BY
NAMING HIM THE HEAD AND KEEPER OF THE COMMUNITY PRISON, WHERE ALL THE
PRISONERS OF WAR CAUGHT FROM THE RIVAL COMMUNITIES ARE KEPT. THIS BRINGS
OUT HIS CHARACTER TO THE ATTENTION OF THE READERS MAKING THEM HAVE PRE-
JUDGMENT OF HIS FUTURE ACTIONS. THE TALE THEN GIVES A CLEAR DEMONSTRATION
OF DALLIN’S ABILITY WHEN HE TRIUMPH AND ACHIEVES SUCCESS. THIS HONOR
PROPELS DALLIN TO THE LIMELIGHT AND MARKS THE HIGH POINT IN HIS STATUS IN
THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE AFTER THAT THE BRAVERY AND SINGLE MINDEDNESS THAT
HELPED HIM TO SUCCEED WOULD EVENTUALLY RESULT IN HIS DOWNFALL. DALLIN IS
CONTROLLED BY AN OBSESSIVE FEAR OF FAILURE, A REACTION TO THE CONDITION OF
HIS BROTHER. FURTHERMORE, THIS SELF-IMPOSED NECESSITY TO COMPENSATE
MAKES DALLIN AN ANGRY INDIVIDUAL WHOSE VIOLENCE TOWARDS THE PRISONERS
AND HIS INDEPENDENCE UNDERCUTS HIS REPUTATION IN THE COMMUNITY. IN ONE
OCCASION, DALLIN DISTURBS THE WHOLE COMMUNITY BY BRUTALLY BEATING HIS
YOUNGEST WIFE NEARLY TO THE POINT OF DEATH WHILE IN ANOTHER TRAGIC
INSTANCE DALLIN’S FEAR OF APPEARING WEAK LEADS HIM TO MERCILESSLY PUNISH A
PRISONER TO DEATH FOR A MINOR OFFENCE. WHEN DALLIN ACCIDENTLY ALLOWS
SEVERAL PRISONERS TO ESCAPE, HIS COMMUNITY MEMBERS BRAND HIM A TRAITOR,
INVADE AND DESTROY HIS COMPOUND AND EXILE HIM TO A DISTANT VILLAGE FOR
SEVEN YEARS. THIS REVEALS HOW THE SOCIETY CAN SOMETIMES TURN AWAY FROM
ONE OF THEIR OWN.
THE SECOND PART OF THE TALE TALKS ABOUT DALLIN’S EXILE, A COMPLEX TIME IN
WHICH HE MUST REBUILD HIS LIFE; DALLIN WAS BANISHED TO THE DISTANT VILLAGE
WHERE HIS MOTHER’S PEOPLE ORIGINATE. DURING HIS STAY IN THIS VILLAGE
DALLIN’S RELATIVES REMIND HIM OF THE UNIVERSALITY OF SUFFERING, THE
LIMITATION OF SUCCESS AND THE CLAN’S IMPORTANCE AS A SOURCE OF COMFORT.
DALLIN’S INCREASING SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND HIS FORGETFUL ENCOUNTERS WITH
CHRISTIANITY IN THE DISTANT VILLAGE MAKES HIM AN
avid defender of the shadow culture. 1 AFTER THE END OF HIS EXILE, DALLIN WHO EARLIER
ON HAD BEEN FAMOUS FOR HIS SELF-INTEREST LEARNS TO APPRECIATE THE BONDS OF
FAMILY AND THE COMFORT DERIVED FROM SPEAKING WITH ONE VOICE.
NONETHELESS, THIS NEWFOUND INTEREST OF AWARENESS AND TOGETHERNESS
COMES AT A TIME WHEN THE UNITY OF THE CULTURE OF THE SHADOW PEOPLE HAS
ALREADY STARTED BREAKING DOWN MORE ESPECIALLY THROUGH THE INFLUENCE OF
COLONIAL RULE.
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IN THE LAST PART OF THE NOVEL, THE TALE FOCUSES ON DALLIN’S RETURN TO HIS
VILLAGE THAT HAS BEEN DRASTICALLY CHANGED BY THE ACTIVE INITIATIVES OF THE
MISSIONARIES. THE NEWFOUND RELIGION HAS BROUGHT A RIFT BETWEEN DIFFERENT
FACTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY, AND DALLIN SENSES THAT THIS DIVIDE THREATENS
THE BOND HE HAS WITH FAMILY, HIS SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE AFTER DEATH, AND HIS
CULTURE. WHEN FRED, DALLIN’S FIRST-BORN SON CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY, HE
OPENLY REPUDIATES HIS CLAN MEMBERS ESPECIALLY HIS FATHER, STRANGELY
PARALLELING DALLIN’S REJECTION OF HIS ELDER BROTHER. FURTHERMORE, WHEN
BRAIN, DALLIN’S FRIEND ALSO CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY, EXPOSES A PRIEST IN
PUBLIC, WHICH KILLED THE ANCESTRAL SPIRIT IN THE VILLAGE ALTAR AND
DISTURBED THE COMMUNITY’S RELIGION, DALLIN LEADS AN ATTACK THAT BURNS
DOWN BRAIN’S COMPOUND AND THE COMMUNITY’S CHURCH. AFTER THE INCIDENT,
THE COLONIAL AUTHORITIES BRIEFLY DETAIN DALLIN AND SEVEN OTHER ELDERS AS
PUNISHMENT; NONETHELESS, DALLIN IS HUMILIATED BECAUSE THE VILLAGE DOES
NOT RALLY BEHIND HIM IN SUPPORT. DALLIN EVENTUALLY REALIZES THAT HE ALONE
IS REFUSING THE ACCOMMODATION OF THE MISSIONARIES AND THAT THE VILLAGE
WILL NOT GO TO WAR AGAINST THEM, SO IN A FINAL DEFIANT AND DESPERATE ACT, HE
KILLS ON OF THE MISSIONARIES AND THEN HANGS HIMSELF.
Part 2
1 IN THE TALE, MAJOR PURPOSE WAS TO BRING TO THE LIGHT A DYNAMIC AND
COMPLEX SOCIETY TO AN AUDIENCE THAT THINK THAT AMAZONIAN COMMUNITIES AS
SIMPLE, PRIMITIVE, AND BACKWARD. MOST WESTERN WRITERS OF THIS SOCIETY HAVE
PRESENTED SUCH COMMUNITIES AS A DARK PLACE THAT IS OCCUPIED BY INDIVIDUALS
WITH PRIMITIVE AND IMPENETRABLE MINDS; THIS REDUCTIONIST PORTRAYAL IS VERY
WRONG AND OFTEN RACIST. MOST WESTERN WRITERS WHO WRITE ABOUT CLOSED
COMMUNITIES CREATE STEREOTYPICAL AND FLAT CHARACTERS, NONETHELESS, IN THE
TALE, MOST OF THE SHADOW PEOPLE ARE HIGHLY MOTIVATED, AND MANY OF THEM
ARE OPEN TO NEW IDEAS.
NONETHELESS, THE AIM OF THE TALE IS NOT TO PRESENT THE SHADOW PEOPLE’S
CULTURE AS IDYLLIC AND FAULTLESS BUT MANY WESTERN WRITERS THAT WROTE ON
COLONIALISM ESPECIALLY ON AFRICA WERE AGAINST IMPERIALISM BUT NONETHELESS
WERE ROMANTIC TO A GREAT MEASURE IN THEIR PORTRAYAL OF NOBLE SAVAGES,
ANIMALISTIC AND PRIMITIVE YET INNOCENT AND UNCORRUPTED. NONETHELESS, THE
OPPOSITION TO IMPERIALISM THAT MANY WESTERN WRITERS VOICE ON THE PREMISE
THAT AN ADVANCED AND SOPHISTICATED WESTERN SOCIETY DESTROYS AND
CORRUPTS THE NON-WESTERN WORLD. ADDITIONALLY, VOLTAIRE WOULD REGARD
THIS NOTION AS AN UNACCEPTABLE MYTH AND AN ARGUMENT WITHOUT A BASIS.
ALTHOUGH IN THE TALE THE SHADOW PEOPLE’S INDIGENOUS CULTURE WOULD BE
DESTROYED, THE CULTURE WAS NOT AN IDYLLIC HAVEN, EVEN WITHOUT THE COMING
OF THE WHITE COLONIALIST. THE TALE SEEMS TO HAVE AN AFTER EFFECT ON A
PERSON’S PERCEPTION, THE WAY OF THINKING AND VIEW ABOUT THE WORLD. IN
CONTRARY TO WHAT THE READERS HAD BEEN INTRODUCED TO, THERE IS A TWIST IN
THE CHRONOLOGICAL EVENTS OF HIS LIFE. This also
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1 BRINGS OUT THE FACT THAT LIFE HAS DIFFERENT LINES OF STORY AND CAN CHANGE
AT ANY TIME. THIS IS BECAUSE ITS MAIN CONCERN IS ABOUT THE SOCIETY AND THE
WELL BEING OF THE MEMBERS.
References
Cooksey, T. L. (2006). Masterpieces of philosophical literature. Westport (Conn. Greenwood
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FURTHERMORE, DALLIN IS DEEPLY EMBARRASSED AND FRUSTRATED BY HIS OLDER BROTHER WHO IS LAZY, A WOMANIZER AND HAS DEBTS ALL THROUGHOUT THE VILLAGE
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DALLIN IS CONTROLLED BY AN OBSESSIVE FEAR OF FAILURE, A REACTION TO THE CONDITION OF HIS BROTHER
Dallin is controlled by an obsessive fear of failure, a reaction to the condition of his brother
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DALLIN’S INCREASING SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND HIS FORGETFUL ENCOUNTERS WITH CHRISTIANITY IN THE DISTANT VILLAGE MAKES HIM AN
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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx NONETHELESS, DALLIN IS HUMILIATED BECAUSE THE VILLAGE DOES NOT RALLY BEHIND HIM IN SUPPORT
Source - Another student's paper nonetheless, Dallin is humiliated because the village does not rally behind him in support
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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx DALLIN EVENTUALLY REALIZES THAT HE ALONE IS REFUSING THE ACCOMMODATION OF THE MISSIONARIES AND THAT THE VILLAGE WILL NOT GO TO WAR AGAINST THEM, SO IN A FINAL DEFIANT AND DESPERATE ACT, HE KILLS ON OF THE MISSIONARIES AND THEN HANGS HIMSELF
Source - Another student's paper Dallin eventually realizes that he alone is refusing the accommodation of the missionaries and that the village will not go to war against them, so in a final defiant and desperate act, he kills on of the missionaries and then hangs himself
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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx IN THE TALE, MAJOR PURPOSE WAS TO BRING TO THE LIGHT A DYNAMIC AND COMPLEX SOCIETY TO AN AUDIENCE THAT THINK THAT AMAZONIAN COMMUNITIES AS SIMPLE, PRIMITIVE, AND BACKWARD
Source - Another student's paper In the tale, major purpose was to bring to the light a dynamic and complex society to an audience that think that Amazonian communities as simple, primitive, and backward
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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx MOST WESTERN WRITERS OF THIS SOCIETY HAVE PRESENTED SUCH COMMUNITIES AS A DARK PLACE THAT IS OCCUPIED BY INDIVIDUALS WITH PRIMITIVE AND IMPENETRABLE MINDS
Source - Another student's paper Most western writers of this society have presented such communities as a dark place that is occupied by individuals with primitive and impenetrable minds
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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx THIS REDUCTIONIST PORTRAYAL IS VERY WRONG AND OFTEN RACIST
Source - Another student's paper this reductionist portrayal is very wrong and often racist
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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx MOST WESTERN WRITERS WHO WRITE ABOUT CLOSED COMMUNITIES CREATE STEREOTYPICAL AND FLAT CHARACTERS, NONETHELESS, IN THE TALE, MOST OF THE SHADOW PEOPLE ARE HIGHLY MOTIVATED, AND MANY OF THEM ARE OPEN TO NEW IDEAS
Source - Another student's paper Most western writers who write about closed communities create stereotypical and flat characters, nonetheless, in the tale, most of the shadow people are highly motivated, and many of them are open to new ideas
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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx NONETHELESS, THE AIM OF THE TALE IS NOT TO PRESENT THE SHADOW PEOPLE’S CULTURE AS IDYLLIC AND FAULTLESS BUT MANY WESTERN WRITERS THAT WROTE ON COLONIALISM ESPECIALLY ON AFRICA WERE AGAINST IMPERIALISM BUT NONETHELESS WERE ROMANTIC TO A GREAT MEASURE IN THEIR PORTRAYAL OF NOBLE SAVAGES, ANIMALISTIC AND PRIMITIVE YET INNOCENT AND UNCORRUPTED
Source - Another student's paper Nonetheless, the aim of the tale is not to present the shadow people’s culture as idyllic and faultless but many western writers that wrote on colonialism especially on Africa were against imperialism but nonetheless were romantic to a great measure in their portrayal of noble savages, animalistic and primitive yet innocent and uncorrupted
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NONETHELESS, THE OPPOSITION TO IMPERIALISM THAT MANY WESTERN WRITERS VOICE ON THE PREMISE THAT AN ADVANCED AND SOPHISTICATED WESTERN SOCIETY DESTROYS AND CORRUPTS THE NON-WESTERN WORLD
Nonetheless, the opposition to imperialism that many western writers voice on the premise that an advanced and sophisticated western society destroys and corrupts the non-western world
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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx ADDITIONALLY, VOLTAIRE WOULD REGARD THIS NOTION AS AN UNACCEPTABLE MYTH AND AN ARGUMENT WITHOUT A BASIS
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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx ALTHOUGH IN THE TALE THE SHADOW PEOPLE’S INDIGENOUS CULTURE WOULD BE DESTROYED, THE CULTURE WAS NOT AN IDYLLIC HAVEN, EVEN WITHOUT THE COMING OF THE WHITE COLONIALIST
Source - Another student's paper Although in the tale the shadow people’s indigenous culture would be destroyed, the culture was not an idyllic haven, even without the coming of the white colonialist
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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx THE TALE SEEMS TO HAVE AN AFTER EFFECT ON A PERSON’S PERCEPTION, THE WAY OF THINKING AND VIEW ABOUT THE WORLD
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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx IN CONTRARY TO WHAT THE READERS HAD BEEN INTRODUCED TO, THERE IS A TWIST IN THE CHRONOLOGICAL EVENTS OF HIS LIFE
Source - Another student's paper In contrary to what the readers had been introduced to, there is a twist in the chronological events of his life
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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx BRINGS OUT THE FACT THAT LIFE HAS DIFFERENT LINES OF STORY AND CAN CHANGE AT ANY TIME
Source - Another student's paper This also brings out the fact that life has different lines of story and can change at any time
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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx THIS IS BECAUSE ITS MAIN CONCERN IS ABOUT THE SOCIETY AND THE WELL BEING OF THE MEMBERS
Source - Another student's paper This is because its main concern is about the society and the well being of the members