Reflection+on+Brutality

Reflection on Brutality and Violence in America What violence in America shows in our character is that we are lazy and insecure. We are too caught up with the stress of society that we decide that brutal violence is a better technique to solve issues than peaceful reason or communication. In //A Street Car Named Desire//, Stanley wants power and respect and doesn't know how to go about it so he beats his wife and rapes Blanche because society is telling him that he needs to be a certain way and he cannot express his personal emotions about how Blanche isn't "below" him. Not only are we lazy when it comes to solving personal issues, but Americans have an emotional wall characteristic where it's a sign of weakness to show emotion. EMA, though brilliant and extremely sensitive, shows her vulnerability in the song "California" where she talks about how she didn't know how to defend her self and believed that a weapon would solve her problems of self insecurities. It's not just a part of the American character when we don't know how to communicate our emotions and use violence instead, but it's an issue in our society that the easy way out of discourse is to violate and beat other people to try an avoid our own pressures from our communities and society as a whole.

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