I will be looking into the theme Abandonment. I feel it is a very present and frequent theme in today’s’ ‘throw away’ society. ‘Throw away’ could be thought of from a materialistic point of view, or as a child is abandoned. The more prominent context, being the latter. I will explore and confront these two contrasting mediums to understand more about the derivation and meaning of the word abandonment. However, looking at research by a tutor at Kings College London, I came across a very interesting analogy. It seems the theme abandonment is misconceived, and is only thought of in a negative sense:
In the Middle French, for instance, metrè à bandon could have meant both "to proscribe" and "to release from proscription." Thus, the term might apply equally to the slave who is proscribed to his master and to the master who has given up the slave. Both are engaging in "abandon," or according to one definition, the act of relinquishing a person or an object to another. One may then abandon one's child, one's property, or one's self. The common thread in these definitions in that there is an active choice being made and that the nature of this choice is absolute. Abandonment is never accidental, and it is never partial. It is deliberate and it is complete. It is, perhaps, these qualities that account for the reoccurrence of the theme in folklore and mythology, in social science, and in art and literature.
(staff.kings.edu/jamcclin/Theme-abandonment.doc)
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