Colorblind

entrust was a young bride that was adopted with no connection to the ultimo that marries a successful Louisianan plantation owner. Desire and Armband have a baffle, solely some social occasion isnt quite right with him because at about three months of age the accuracy comes out, the baby has African origins causing the marriage to dissolve. Armbands accusation leads to heartache and catastrophe because he valued his family report more than his family. Having a mulatto in those generation was non unheard of, but not in his family.The cultural corpse is flawed because it leads to self-cin one caseit being challenged and personal humiliation of social corpse based on white supremacy and the oppression f women and tidy sum of color. Waits 2 Armbands misogynistic pride was destructive to the faithful relationship that Desire and he shared in the beginning. It seems that Armband wasnt really in love with Desire, at least(prenominal) not truly. Armband Abusing riding by seein g her there had fallen in love with her.That was the way all the Bigness fell in love, as if struck by a pistol shot (301). Armband has known Dsire for old age and never felt any feelings for her, so it seems to reason that it was apparent that he was driven by his unconscious assign, or as Sigmund Freud says his lust for her and not as a deep seated emotional love. His prideful notice leads us to believe his love is provided superficial because he doesnt direction where she came from, his only concern was that she carried his last name. Desire was only his possession, not his wife. The rut that awoke in him that day, when he saw her at the gate, swept along interchangeable and avalanche He was reminded that she was nameless. What did that matter about a name when he could give her the oldest and proudest in Louisiana (302)? Armband is selfish. He has it all, family name that seems to be compared to royalty, a wealthy plantation owner with vast slaves, all of which hes normal ly wild to except when he gets married and his prideful baby boy was born. Armband seemed kinder, gentler, and more tolerant. He hasnt punished one of them-not one of them-since the baby is born. Even Engineering, who assumed to have burnt his leg that he might rest from work-he only laughed, and said Engineering was a great scamp (302). Although his face has hushed and his demeanor is less oppressive, unchanging his only concern is the family name. Desire, the baby, and the slaves are still viewed to him as property and possessions, ones that are good or bad, but all way his name is upon them and whatever they do reflects his name.Once Armband realizes that his baby boy, the one to tamp on his name was of African dissent, the baby and Desire were cast deflection Waits 3 because they were no longer any use to him. Their worth was nought to him any longer because his pride and heritage were at stake. Armband is a wealthy plantation owner, he courts, marries, and fathers a chi ld, but in the end his pride leads him to ultimately turn his back up on his family. The other major write out that Desires Baby brings to light is that of racism. racial discrimination, with an indispensable set of truths-racism only victimizes all possessions in the South that lead to the ultimate superiority ideology. The superior ideology says that being black is an evil curse that must be stamped out. African Americans were considered low to the white culture which led to Desire and her babys destruction. Armband ruled with an iron clenched fist as a cruel master in Southern legend. recent Bigamys rule was a strict one, too, and under it is Negroes had forgotten how to be gay, as they had been during the old masters easy-going and indulgent lifetime (302).He was mean and enormously for how he treat his slaves and finally his wife. The baby, at three months old seemed to resemble La Blanches small squadron boy who was standing beside the baby fanning him to cool him off. O ne of La Blanches elfin squadron boys-half naked too- stood fanning the child slowly with a fan of peacock feathers. Desires eyeball had been fixed absently and sadly upon the baby, while she was striving to penetrate the hearten mist that she felt closing about her. She looked from the child to the boy who stood beside him, and back again.. T was a cry that she could not help She tried to converse to the little squadron boy but no sound would come at first She stayed motionless, with gaze riveted upon on her child, and her face the picture of fright (303). The ingeminate shows the beginning of the end for the Abusing family. The superficial love that Armband had for Desire, was completely gone. The only thing left was the racist, black heart he had. Waits 4 Merriam Webster defines racism as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capabilities. Racism played a huge part in the story because once Armband found out that his baby boy had an African herita ge, his whole mental attitude changed. His attitude towards the love of his life was cast aside along with her baby and hearts were broken. Armband assumed it was Desire that was not white, but in actuality, it was him who was not. But, above all, she wrote, night and day, I thank the good God for having so arrange our lives that our dear Armband will never know hat his mother, who adores him, belongs to the race that is goddamn with the brand of slavery (305).The story has certain aspects of situational mockery such a reversal clearly shows that ideas of race, and the racism stemming from such ideas, are created by world and humans alone. The use of situational irony in Desires Baby is important because it makes the ending of discovering Armbands origins more than more powerful. The reader is somewhat confused as to the outcome of the irony because the reader thinks its Desires fault as well. The story begins with her not having a name and Armband giving her one of the oldes t and proudest names in Louisiana.The irony of the situation was that Armband was expecting it to be Desires fault, but as it is clearly written, it was not. Desires Baby dealt with societys issue of slavery, miscegenation, and the assignment and compartmentalization of race. Desire and her baby were victims of the superior culture of the times, but the situational irony where Armband blames Desire is profound in the sense that one can never be too certain of his or her heritage.