Family Obligations: Exploring Loyalty, Morals, and Betrayal 

Haneen Alrabadi (2024)

Welcome to my exhibit!

For my final project in Cultures and Ideas 11H I decided to explore how one's family can change someone's perspective that could lead to a betrayal of their values. If they would consider betraying their morals if it was for their family and vice versa? Also where does loyalty come to play in this? I felt like I personally connected with this question and topic because I am very close to my family and would do anything for them. So I wanted to see how in different time periods the obligations to your family can change and if their values came before their family. My project uses multiple sources and some of the novels we have read in class including Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie, The Burial at Thebes translation by Seamus Heaney, and The Secret River by Kate Grenville 

Key:

The map points use specific colors in order to navigate my project easier. 

Red: Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

Purple: The Burial at Thebes translation by Seamus Heaney

Blue: The Secret River by Kate Grenville

Green: Conclusion

Works Cited:

Arin Keeble & James Annesley (2021) Globalism, Multiculturalism and Violence in Zia Hader Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know (2014) and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire (2017), Parallax, 27:1, 79-97, DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2021.1976463

Banerjee, Debjani. “From Cheap Labor to Overlooked Citizens: Looking for British Muslim Identities in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire.” South Asian Review, vol. 41, no. 3–4, 2020, pp. 288–302. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.libproxy.scu.edu/10.1080/02759527.2020.1835141.

 Jeske, Diane. “Families, Friends, and Special Obligations.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 28, no. 4, 1998, pp. 527–55. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40232035.  Accessed 10 Mar. 2024.

 Lemmings, David. “Marriage and the Law in the Eighteenth Century: Hardwicke’s Marriage Act of 1753.” The Historical Journal, vol. 39, no. 2, 1996, pp. 339–60. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2640184 . Accessed 10 Mar. 2024.

Tait, Peta. “Human Rights, Humanness and Animalness in Antigone: Empathetic Emotions and Company B’s Production.” Australasian Drama Studies, vol. 56, Apr. 2010, pp. 71–83. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mlf&AN=2010297203&site=ehost-live&scope=site.