Parable of the Sower | Ideas for Group Discussions
Butler's works feature principally women of nonwhite races as protagonists, mostly African American. She has in her stones followed the history of the United States and of western civilization from the past into the near future. In her prospectus, America is never politically or culturally stable. It is instead precarious in the past and doomed in the future. The causes of this are the use of slavery and its heirs, capitalism and monopoly capitalism by America's founders. In this setting of disintegrating nations Butler's stories propose that sex remains a powerful drive. The lust for...
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