Throughout Sound and Fury, many Discourses appear about the deaf culture. These conflicing Discourses are shown in the disputes between the two families. Peter Artinian believes that giving a cochlear implant to a deaf person is destroying deaf culutre, while Chris Artinian and his wife Mari, were giving their child a cochlear implant to give their child more opportunity in the big world.
Deaf people are obviously part of their own Discourse. They live in a slightly different way because they can't hear. They need to rely on sign language to communicate, and being only a small minority of the world's population, gaining this amenity is hard.
This large Discourse can be split up into two smaller Discourses, which each operate on different discourses. One of the two Discourses looks down on deaf culture. They embrace who they are and what they do based on their deafness, but they look down on it because they yearn to be normal. They believe that with a hearing implant, they could be more successful in the real world. Chris and Mari fit into this Discourse in the video. They accept their family because they are deaf, but they want the best for their child. Therefore, they put him through the cochlear operation.
The other Discourse is the one that embraces deaf culture and believes that removing that part from someones life is a bad thing. You were born with what you have, and that is what you need to accept in life. This corresponds with Peter's tyrade when he says that giving a deaf child a cochlear implant is wrong becaues it destroyes their understanding of the deaf culture. This was the whole Discourse conflict in the video.
Hartman, solid. Your views are accurate. However, you think that the two different Discourses can really be split apart? Or are they one Discourse with slightly different approaches to the same discourse? Most people are not even aware of this Discourse or their discourse. Could their discourse be the common discourse in their Discourse?
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