Political Economy of the Body.........

Quote UNO
--After reading this quote, it made me feel like our bodies are like a turtle shell, carrying our minds, spirits, and souls. Protecting our precious gifts. The body does what is required of our demands--or the demands of others. Slaves were forced to do hard labor by their masters. They were pushed passed their comfort zones, treated like property, and meant nothing to the masters but just labor workers. It is what is inside our bodies that is powerful. I say this because if you have the mental motivation, you can do anything. The masters got in the heads of slaves and broke them, taking away rights and respect. The masters forced the slaves to reach their physical potential to do labor...and that's all they did to the slaves. Slaves were not people to masters, they were just property. Because of this, a majority of slaves were not able to put their great potential as human beings elsewhere.

QUOTE DOS
--Putting your body to hard uncomfortable work. Slaves were pushed to their physical ability and farther. They became robotic and treated inhumane. This quote really had me relate back to the first quote. If I was ever put in the same position as a slave, i would probably work and do things that i never imagined i could do as far as worth ethic.

QUOTE TRES
“In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king.”


--I feel like this quote was completely different from the last two quotes. It sounds so powerful ; " ...the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king.." I loved that use of words. I think it means that someone of higher rank in society is greatly looked up upon as opposed to someone of lower social rank is looked down upon--inverted. Two people both human with the same human traits but logically differnt in terms of how they are looked at not in the physical relm but in the...emotional relm makes them completely opposite, completely inverted from one another.