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Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize acceptance lecture given in 1993 is a far cry from the MTV movie awards acceptance speeches teens watch religiously every fall. Granted, one would also view a Nobel Prize for literature a bit more prestigiously than an award for, say, Best Fight Scene. Unlike many other students in this class I feel that Toni Morrison’s elaborately woven metaphor of the old blind woman is in principle an appropriate vehicle for Morrison’s lecture about the power of language, but didn’t work well in practice.
I agree completely with Morrison when she says, “There is and will be… memorializing language to mask the pity and waste of needless death… of politics and history calculated to render the suffering of millions mute.” (21) Within these words, spoken in 1993, Morrison had the foresight to understand that this same problem is prevailing in society today.
Approximate Word count = 728
Approximate Pages = 2.9
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