Racism In Harry Potter Argumentative Essay Examples

Introduction

In one of the Israeli universities lecture was "Harry Potter and disappeared Jew" in which Dr. Hilda Nisimi accused the boy wizard in the promotion of racism. According Nisimi, despite the "tolerance and multiculturalism Harry Potter" and the emergence of a variety of characters - the Irish, Greeks, Egyptians, Indians – there are no Jews in the books of JK Rowling. According to her, this feature has a reason. Nisimi notes that the saga about the adventures of Harry Potter is full of Christian symbolism, but without the Jewish foundations. "The book takes a typical Christian fight the sons of light against the children of darkness, Harry Potter himself is much like Jesus Christ, to the point that he begins to bleed from his hands. The book is Christian kingdom of the heavens and the Earth Kingdom" - said Dr. Nisimi.
In her opinion, the Harry Potter books "universalizing the Holocaust, belittling the value of the suffering of the Jewish people." Dr. Nisimi believes that the role of Jews in the epic lies with the "muggles", that is, people deprived of their ability to magic. She notes that in Rowling's books the negative characters pursue positive, including, for lack of purity of blood, and that the very author consciously drew parallels with different totalitarian regimes, including Nazi Germany. As a result, "the universalization of the Holocaust" Jews are persecuted random unremarked among others, argues Nisimi. She also noted that the Potter books indirectly promotes racism, because, despite all the calls for equal treatment of muggles, at the end of "the world of magic is declared superior to the muggle world."

Thesis statement: Wizards show racism against muggles

Body
The first thing that catches your eye when you get to Hogwarts is the concept of "pure blood". Ideas which pureblood wizards are those that do not have any family relationship with the "Muggles" or not-magicians as well as in terms of socio-cultural side of their (the book not explicitly stated, but out of context, a picture emerges of a well that any apparent manifestation of Muggle culture and their achievements nasty thoroughbred) and are true magicians and all the others in the scores are plebeians (as in the case of a crossbred) or subhuman and do not have the right to live in a world of magic. Simply put in the wizarding community is flourishing the real racism, manifestations of which no one even tries to fight (which suggests something on what thoughts), and the Dark Lord Voldemort is the main culprit of the world of magic, who took these ideas and adopt them under the banner of committing numerous crime.
I noted that, naturally, ideas of purebreeding are condemned by Harry, Ron and Hermione. I proud of them, this is a symbol of that there can be a friendship between different mages (A Half-Blood or de - facto muggle Harry, pure blood Ron and muggleborn Hermione) and as well as to assert that racism is the destiny of some of the individual personalities of harmful (and these "individuals" - 15 - 20% of the population of the magic, which in this case are very rich, influential and welded connections + group as much latent people). But in addition to the author at the whole situation arise from reading and some have thought that how can thus exists in society Harry is such a thing as racism.
I start with the fact that the world is a community of wizards and other animals live apart from the rest 99.99% of the population. It just so happened that we, the magicians, do not have the right to use magic out of Hogwarts and have no right to talk about it, one barrier preventing some respect for others are already evident. In addition, the division is even more profound - mages are completely separate from the muggles without them even hidden and not obvious connections. Of course, even with magic magicians could not live separately and provide for ourselves, so they had to cooperate and create alternative community of muggle. Thus by the Harry (80 - 90 years. 20th century) time there was already a whole secret society with its highly autonomous economies (workshops, shops, hotels, taverns), education, health, media, and its system of government (the government, the courts, the army, the police, prison and law) Actually this is 0.01% of the population of the globe, and called "the world of wizards." I claim that truth is not all. Due to the obvious limitations of contacts with 99.99% of the population (muggles) and economic independence from them, and there was a psychological and cultural isolation from the muggles. Wizards of their culture and way of life correspond to ordinary muggle, but nevertheless, the cultural differences are very large. The most obvious manifestation of this phenomenon is noticeable in contrast of fashion (clothing) for wizards and muggles. With all the numerical ratio of muggles and wizards would be logical if eventually lower dissolved in a large borrowed cultural achievements, etc., but however it just is not, and here comes the interesting situation.
I can say that wizards do not like to have any business with muggles and all connected with them, it is shown as clearly and consciously or not consciously, but if they just say the magic in the minds of the community of muggles are inferior beings. The main argument for this is the lack of skills in magic of muggles, and as a consequence, and in order not to use her skills, as well as ignorance of the existence of such. In this case, the fact that no muggles than physically and mentally not concede wizards can marry magicians and from marriages of children are born - wizards not taken into account, as well as the fact that the wizards and muggles like - need food, water and walking on need and with all their magic cannot make adjustments to it. In addition, the muggles are the subject of ridicule from wizards. This naturally is not one of the wizards do not condescend to interest in the achievements muggle (science, thoughts, arts, culture) or recognizing such as fellow human beings. In any case, within a single cycle of the wizard were not. I know only one family of "muggle-lovers" - Weasley - but the children of the family force not pound on the lessons muggle studies, the head of the family - Arthur Weasley - in fact a hypocrite, hypocrite and poseur, a cousin of the mother that had been grown Squib (judging by the words of Ron in the first book) settled in muggle society and contacts between them and the rest of the family is absent, and none of the kids not joined the muggle culture and continued to live the traditional way of life of the ancestors (well, except Bill is an exception). Here's a gloomy picture - "muggle-love" remained at the level of words.

Conclusion

On the whole, the situation is sad. All wizards’ community is a source of racism. And if the fight against obscurantism, it is necessary to deal with this community. However, this would not be consistent with the logic works: because "the wizarding world" is a very interesting place and it was there live and Harry, Ron and Hermione. Therefore, the fight against racism has been reduced to combat its occurrence that is the fight against the most radical and aggressive group in society, who led the Dark Lord. The theme of combating the causes of the problem and did not get up, and do the main characters - a trio of Harry, Ron and Hermione did not understand the fact that they live in a criminal anti-human society. Moreover, they are feeling comfortable.