Assignment in comm 1 MTh 9:00-10:30 (figures of orality)

1.) How does food become a center of power relations between master and slave?


                  Food is an obsessive concern between master and slave. The power of the master and degradation in the word slavery is encoded secretly in the story's content, it is shown in the metaphors used using eating and feeding. the slave is (according to the story) a food or to indulge the master's sexual appetite. and after this "food" is forced upon her throat, she is blamed for her "appetite". The food became the center of power relations between master and slave when the body of the slave is somehow viewed as food and that the master has the power to do anything with the food. The "food" is used as an object to satisfy an appetite economy, and in a way highlights the degraded position women has in the "food chain" of slavery.
 
2.) How is food associated with a mother?
                People are born from a mother's womb and is first satisfied from hunger with their mother's breast so in one way or another mothers are often associated with food and where food is found. the mother is almost always the one to do the cooking in a household and always considered as the best at that particular chore, therefore when we are treated to a food that is somehow different from what we are used to at home, we always compare it to the food our mother cooks for us. A mother is also an icon of food power.