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A Mercy Toni Morrison Analysis

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Jonathan Hernandez
Mrs. Franklin
English 11
September 9, 2014
The Male Overcast
Widely renowned Toni Morrison, is an award winning author and a Nobel recipient; within her novel A Mercy (2008), reveals the effects of hierarchy from a physiological standpoint. She supports her revealing by first introducing a female character that comes to power in a male dominant world, then the character (Rebekka) strikes tragedy as her only male support dies leaving the female with a mantle solely made for men which causes Rebekka to lose a place in her mentality of social hierchy; as such she turns to God as a replacement which can only be seen as a replacement for the vast hole in her heart for a male representative.Morrison’s purpose is to give her readers of a new perspective based on the social stratifiction so heavily influenced by the difference in gender during the late 1600’s in order to educate the minds of those that predominantly view the gender social order as a petty argument for the wealthy.She adapts the reading to revolve around a general tone of consequence and repentance.

Rebekka,inadvertently explores different forms of hierarchy because she is psychologically dependent and (consciously or not) she has a compelling desire to have a person higher than her in the status quo of Amercy which slowly drives her into madness.

Rebekka’s childhood is, according to American Humane Association, one filled with emotional abuse. Rebekka recounts her father viewing Rebekka as a
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