She is compelled by her own logic.
When she puts on heeled red shoes, she is compelled to dance.
She is compelled to stay, however, after her implication in Hannibal's crimes, left to an uncertain fate, unable to leave but also unable to stay.
Behind the podium, she is compelled to tell folks about the house her momma built in Kendall, between the Everglades and Miami, when she was a child.
Any engagement where she is compelled to take on the personality of a crab, therefore, will be a winner for her.
She shares her experiences with teenagers and women in outreach programs, shelters and prisons around the country because she is compelled to show people — as she was shown — the power of expression, through music or something else.
But she is compelled to share his grief out of compassion, and so strong is this compassion that she wants to share also his guilt wants to make of herself, retroactively, an accomplice to his crimes.
Since she undertakes these acts of exchange not because of direct physical coercion by another, but only because she is compelled by hunger and a lack of alternatives, they are free.
Falling back on the legitimacy of the ballot box is not much different from the husband who rapes his wife but insists that she is compelled by the legality of the marriage contract to accept his abuse.
