Sight and reality in Chestnutt’s “The Conjure Woman”

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11/06/2008

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Table of Contents Sight and reality in Chestnutt’s “The Conjure Woman” Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction.
  2. Charles W. Chestnutt's The Conjure Woman.
    1. The main theme of sight and its relationship to representation and reality.
    2. Chestnutt's collection of tales.
  3. Representations of reality and subjective reality.
    1. Subjective realities - personal interpretations of reality.
    2. 'The Conjure's Revenge' - attacks on other areas of John and Annie's subjective realities.
    3. The levels of misrepresentation and condescension in regards to Julius' character.
    4. Annie's response to 'The Conjure's Revenge'.
  4. Mars Jeems's loss of his entire identity.
  5. The notion of the realm of thought corrupting the purity of sensation.
  6. Conclusion.

Abstract

There has always been a fundamental distinction between reality and how our mind represents reality. What we see and observe (external sight) comes into conflict with what we interpret and feel (internal sight). Charles W. chestnutt's the conjure woman explores the gulf between the eye and the mind; in our effort to discover what is real and true, we must reach a compromise between our representations and our own personal biases. the main theme of sight and its relationship to representation and reality in the conjure woman revolves around the concept of trust. Internal perception such as intuition or personal insight, understood by the mind and soul, comes into conflict with vision and physical sight, observed by the eye. Our eye sees one reality; our mind interprets that reality into, naturally, a representation. We have faces, names, voices, and ideologies that are inherited from other sources. Our eyes seem to absorb nature perfectly.

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