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Essay #2: Stalking Beauty Sublime is something that it is good or beautiful that affects you deeply. Edmund Burke and Plotinus thought of sublime in different ways. In the novel “ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” Junot Diaz examines the different gender roles in the Hispanic culture. In the Hispanic culture men are described as strong, unfaithful, and dominant in order to show their masculinity. However, the main character Oscar Wao masculinity was different from the norm. Oscar Wao was a nerdy kid who was fat and loved comic books and fantasy novels. All of his friends and family will bullied him about his lack of interest in girls,sports,and his body because it was against the stereotype of a real Dominican man. Oscar was expected to …show more content…

The novel made me relate to my own culture because in my culture it is right for the man to be a player and do masculinity things. If a man doesn't follow those expectations then he is not a real man and for that people will judge you. According to philosopher Edmund Burke perceives pain as one of the strongest emotions that anyone is capable of feeling and he believes that is what makes something sublime “I say the strongest emotion, because I am satisfied the ideas of pain are much more powerful than those which enter on the part of please”(Burke 114). To the contrary, I don't agree with philosopher Edmund Burke because I can’t find beauty in pain. Relating this to the novel of Junot Diaz I don't agree that his main character had to suffer by getting beaten up because he didn't followed the expectations that his culture looked for. Also, I don't agree that suffering for love your whole life and being shot is the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling “Oscar sent telepathic messages to his moms( I love you Señora), to Rodolfo ( quit, Tío, and live ), to Lola ( I’m so sorry it happened; I always loved you), and the longest to Yvón. They waited for him to finish and then they shot him to pieces ( Diaz

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