Perhaps the saddest moment in this book is when his father, after his release from prison, attempts to have his party membership reinstated: a terrible scene of self-subjugation.
The film shows the master manipulators deliver their spiel, observes their self-punishing subjugation to a ruthless sales manager, and also catches them alone, in their lonely rounds undertaken by car — the salesmen seem all too happy for the company and speak volubly to Albert Maysles's camera, divulging both the tricks of the trade and the frustrations of their lives and livelihoods.
Where is the line between self-expression and self-affirmation, and subjugation and sexual stereotyping?
There's a lot of Buddhism (probably too much) in this novel, and that's another of Wagner's sublime ironies: his monsters of ego are obsessed with demonstrating, to themselves and others, their showy subjugation of self.
Here was a character whose subjugation of self in service of a career was severe indeed.
Far more team-oriented in its play, the sport is based on the subjugation of the self to a collective effort.
And so when you begin to kick my chair, I could try to pretend that I am Japanese, for it seems that the Asian ideal of subjugation of the self to the group makes for less annoyance with one's neighbor.
"You can't have dignity if you're a slave," the butler is informed in a Devon cottage, but for Stevens, dignity has always meant the subjugation of the self to the job, and of his destiny to his master's.
But as an Indian middle-class élite trained in Western institutions became politicized — more aware of the nature and scale of Indian political and economic subjugation to Britain — self-serving British rhetoric about benevolent masters and volatile natives was bound to be challenged.
One is subjugation, the other self-regulation.
The aims of the Taliban under Mullah Muhammad Omar are similar to those of the British-installed Iron Amilitary military conquest and subjugation of all the self-governing non-Pashtun territories.
