The repetition of having inevitability in the poem “Rape” by Jayne Cortez, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs, and the play “Safe” by Georgia Douglas Johnson all help the authors strengthen the message of what happen when extreme choices are made when no other options are left.
In the poem “Rape”, Joanna and Inez are both victims of attempted rape. For the both of them, killing their attack was the only way to get out of the situation. The phrase “And just what the fuck else were we supposed to do?” is repeated to show that even though murdering them is extreme, their had not other choice but to defend themselves. It would cause inevitable destruction to occur in their lives by someone out of spite for being black if they had not stood up for themselves. This was war for them because murdering them was the only way of protecting themselves and their freedom to live.
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Flint. “I would do anything and everything, for the sake of defeating him. What could I do?” (Jacobs 57). She know that her life would be a devastating tragedy if she did not find away to escape from his psychological hold on her. “ I wanted to keep myself pure; and, under the most adverse circumstances, I tried hard to preserve my self-respect; but I was struggling alone in the powerful grasp of the demon Slavery; and the monster proved too strong for me” (Jacobs 58). During this slavery time period, it is inevitable for a young slave girl to grow up prematurely knowing about sexual exposure. She tried her best to keep her virginity, but she was forced under the control of Dr. Flint to give it up in order to get her closer to becoming free, even though it meant her grandmother would be disappointed in her. Linda is unable to keep her purity for as long as she wanted to as a sacrifice for a better