Androgyny in James Baldwins Here be Dragons Essays -- Here Dragons

Androgyny in James Baldwins Here be Dragons The piece by James Baldwin titled Here Be Dragons was amazing and I definitely recommend reading it. Baldwins piece is mainly a plea for understanding. He argues that within each person there is a little bit of the opposite for instance, inside every male is a little bit of femininity, just as there is some masculinity within every female. Baldwin also mentions how, many times, the things we fear are things present inside of ourselves that we wish were not. In several instances Baldwin discusses how he was make fun of by men standing in large groups and then once alone the men would try to get Baldwin to have sex with them. I believe those men clung to Baldwin because they felt the homosexual impulse within themselves, and felt that ...