Kindred Argumentative Essay Love is both uncontrollable and a conscious choice, meaning you’ll do anything to be with the person you love and deciding if you love them. It really depends on the person to decide if love is either uncontrollable or a conscious choice. In the story Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler, Rufus decides to love a black woman who then becomes a slave running away with her slave husband, Isaac. In this situation of the book Rufus can’t control his love for Alice, even though she was married to Isaac thus making the theme uncontrollable love. Octavia shows that in the book love is uncontrollable due to Rufus and Alice’s relationship, Rufus makes everything so difficult and he can’t help himself but to always want to be with Alice, therefore showing that their relationship is irresistible, fetching, wayward. When in love it is difficult for one to stay away from the person because they’re in love with them. Rufus wouldn't stop trying to get at Alice even though she already had someone to love aka Isaac. “Now, somehow, Alice would have to accept not only the loss of her husband, but her own enslavement. Rufus had caused her trouble, and now he …show more content…
Alice is basically forced into loving Rufus because if she doesn’t love him back he’ll punish her and there is no escape for her. When Alice tried to run from Rufus things didn’t turn out as planned, she got caught and was punished for her actions. Later on Dana finds Alice’s body and problems start to ravel. “It twisted sharply, broke away from him. He caught me, trying not to hurt me. I was aware of him trying not to hurt me. I was aware of him trying not to hurt me even as I raised the knife, even as I sank it into his side,” (260). Since Alice was forced into a wayward relationship she committed suicide and Dana avenged Alice’s death by killing her