“Marginalization” by Chandrakant Mallya

In a casing, both arms atomic number 18 evenly important. If one of them tilts, the result is imbalance. Compare the scale to the association. A perfect club viewed from any angle, is impossibility. Turn the pages of hu manhood historyperfection was never at that place. It is well-founded to assume that it will never be there It can not be comp allowely avoided either. monastic order at any given snip has not existed and functioned with let out fringyizationSome of the definitions of marginalization areTo relegate or confine to a lower or outer limit or edge, as of neighborly standing.Marginalization (the States) refers to the overt or covert trends inwardly societies whereby those perceived as lacking desirable traits or deviating from the concourse norms course to be excluded by wider society and ostracized as undesirables.Wing Leung describes A marginal per male child as one who does not belongthe marginal man dwells at the margin of two cultures and two societies a nd possesses amarginal brainiac with its unresolved identity crises.Louis Wirth speaking of nonage groups thus A group of people who, because of their physical or cultural portionistics, are singled out from the another(prenominal)s in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment and who and so regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination. This means, the more numerically dominant members, or the more prosperous section of the society gives unequal treatment star(p) to acts of social ostracism, acts of discrimination, leading to marginalization.In genus Sula Tony Morrison traces the lives of two bootleg heroines. They climb together in a small Ohio townwell, thats the merely common point about them. Otherwise, they are poles apart. Their paths are totally divergent, ostensibly their thinking as well Nel Wright chooses the normal life of a black woman marries and settles in the place of her birth. She is part of the tightly-knit black f riendship.Sula cessation rejects this option outright. She escapes to a city, joins a college, and when she returns to her roots, she is a rebel. She decides to teach a lesson to the society that humiliated her in childhood. She mocks at the social norms, and she is a wanton versed seductress. Her vicarious pleasure is depicted in her triumphant return to her settlement and she is extremely happy about the victory she scored by crossing the hurdle that she faced in her life due to the color of her skin. These two characters ably depict, with utmost sincerity to their own emotions, their suffering and enjoyment in the feeble of various trials and tribulations that was part of their life and living.The Civil War in USA led to the physical liberation. The War for economic liberation began thereafter. In Sula Toni Morrison provides us with the real history lesson with the depiction of the black way of life, a society which still continues to be marginalized both from social and ec onomic standpoints. through their girlhood years they share everything perceptions, judgments, yearnings, secrets, even crime until Sula gets out, out of the Bottom, the hilltop neighborhood where beneath the sporting life of the men interruption around the place in head rags and soft felt hares there hides a fierce resentment at failed crops, lost jobs, thieving redress men, bug-ridden flour . . . at the invisible line that cannot be overstepped. (Morison, 1973)Fences is the story of tetrad generations of black Americans. The torch of legacy of morals, attitudes, mores and patterns passes through stories. troy weight Maxon is the principle character of the play. Being a black, the part of the marginalized society of America, how and wherefore he had to scale down his dreams to adjust inside his run-down yard. The opening scene begins with Troy Maxon and his trusted friend Jim Bono engaged in drinking and talking.The anguish of marginalization related victimization is eviden t, when he makes a formal compliant to his bosses, why only white men are permitted to drive garbage trucks for the go down on disposal company. The deep impact of marginalization in Troy Maxons psyche is shown as he counsels his teenage son Cory Maxon when he is cosmos actively recruited for a college football scholarship. His father discourages him, and tells him not to ignore other important responsibilities.Troy wants that his son should never haul garbage comparable him. Cory represents all the possibilities his father never had and the unmet dreams. Yet the father is unwilling to let the son go on the path chosen by him to ameliorate his lot in life. His apprehension is that the white-dominated sports will not let Cory progress, and chemise his heart. Troy had spent fifteen years in jail for looting and murder, but he became an accomplished baseball player in the jail. afterwards the release, when he could not get proper opportunities to display his skill, he is pungent and resentful at the chances lost because of the color of his skin. He wants to protect his son from facing such disappointments and turn cynical. It was due to marginalization that Troys life was full of difficulties, oppression coupled with bad luck. As a boy, due the abject poverty, he was denied education, he cannot even read.Marginalization is practised all over the world, and it embraces humanity. In the Developed World, racial and ethnic minority groups stand out as the most marginalized. Then there are other classes like, the poor, the sick, the disabled, the obese, teenage unwed mothers, the elderly, the homosexuals and lesbians. These groups suffer from one form of marginalization or the other-unemployment, poverty, poor health facilities and lack of education and the like. How can we try to end it?The question should be rather how we can mend it? The completion to marginalization can only be through mending the shipway of the society. First of all, the affluent and th e socially well placed members of the majority community should realize the grave injustice rendered to the affected society for centuries. Genuine penance and willing acceptance to reform can only change the social structure. The change with-out can be achieved only through the change with-in. Society must have a will to change, and that is possible by the unite efforts of the government, social and spiritual organizations. It is high time that marginalization is given a decent burial.ReferencesMorrison, Toni, Sula Excerpted from the book jacket In clear, dark, resonant delivery .members.tripod.com/bibliomania/archive3/morrison5.html 9k Retrieved on May 21, 2007.