Final Reflection Paper
Core 104, Literature, Philosophy, and the Examined Life, impacts the students on ideas including morality and how to live in society. The ideas and texts presented allowed us all to question how others and ourselves act in the world around us, as well as how to understand how to balance our needs with the needs of others. In this course, it allowed me to think more deeply about pressing issues in our country and around the world, as well as make stronger arguments backed up with either quotes or sources. In this course, we had created a final video project that related to the contexts of differing points of view, and can relate to the trips and works we had studied. This project was performed in a random group of students …show more content…
I was personally aware of the story of Tituba, and her being an integral part of the Salem Witch Trial history, however, I was not aware that she was the origins of the witch hunt hysteria that plagued Salem. Furthermore, I was also unaware that she was practicing some elements of her culture that can be described as “witchcraft” to the Puritans. This novel challenged my thinking as there were times where we discussed if what she was doing was considered “just” or morally right. The novel began with her mother assaulting the man that had sexually abused her. This was challenging, as one can view it either that what she did was right, or if violence is not the right answer. While we all might have felt some enjoyment in the fact that she got back at her abuser, it was harder to distinguish if it was morally right for her to go through with those actions. It also had an abortion scene, where Tituba defends her actions by stating that the child “will have no chance to change its fate, into a world of slavery and abjection” (50). However, this is a difficult topic to discuss, especially knowing the fact that she performed this abortion in unsafe
Core 104, Literature, Philosophy, and the Examined Life, impacts the students on ideas including morality and how to live in society. The ideas and texts presented allowed us all to question how others and ourselves act in the world around us, as well as how to understand how to balance our needs with the needs of others. In this course, it allowed me to think more deeply about pressing issues in our country and around the world, as well as make stronger arguments backed up with either quotes or sources. In this course, we had created a final video project that related to the contexts of differing points of view, and can relate to the trips and works we had studied. This project was performed in a random group of students …show more content…
I was personally aware of the story of Tituba, and her being an integral part of the Salem Witch Trial history, however, I was not aware that she was the origins of the witch hunt hysteria that plagued Salem. Furthermore, I was also unaware that she was practicing some elements of her culture that can be described as “witchcraft” to the Puritans. This novel challenged my thinking as there were times where we discussed if what she was doing was considered “just” or morally right. The novel began with her mother assaulting the man that had sexually abused her. This was challenging, as one can view it either that what she did was right, or if violence is not the right answer. While we all might have felt some enjoyment in the fact that she got back at her abuser, it was harder to distinguish if it was morally right for her to go through with those actions. It also had an abortion scene, where Tituba defends her actions by stating that the child “will have no chance to change its fate, into a world of slavery and abjection” (50). However, this is a difficult topic to discuss, especially knowing the fact that she performed this abortion in unsafe