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"Privilege is the greatest enemy of right." Marie Von-Eschenbach

Privilege: 1a) a special advantage immunity, permission, right or benefit granted to or enjoyed individual, class or caste.
1b)Such an advantage, immunity or right held as a prerogative of rank, and exercised to the exclusion or determent of others.
2)The principle of granting and maintaining a special right.
3)Law: the right to privileged communication in a confidential relationship, as between client and attorney, patient and physician, communicant and priest.
As you can see their are a few definitions of privilege. It is from Middle English; derived from old French and from Latin privilegium-a law affecting one person.

My definition of privilege is to have the right or advantage to do things that other individuals don't have the right to do.

Privilege is demonstrated by a few authors that we have studied this semester. In The Giver, a book written by Lois Lowery, the author doesn't necessarily intricate the word privilege, but it most certainly shows you various examples. The Giver is a book in which the community is all the same. Their is no pain, no love, no feelings at all. Every citizen is assigned a ob at the age of 12; Jonas the main character receives the job as the receiver. The receiver is the most honored job and you must be selected by the previous receiver. They don't refer to it as a privilege, but an honor. I believe for it to be both an honor and a privilege because he was granted that honor. He has the privilege or special advantage that the rest of the community could not obtain.

"Shakespeare's Sister" a short story in which Shakespeare writes about a women who feels as if she has no rights-the ability to do nothing. He compares a women to a man and how they had no privileges in their days. It is asking for women privileges rather than rights.

In "Shooting an Elephant" the main character is what you could call the only law enforcement they have. The main character fights both an internal and external conflict by deciding whether or not to shoot the enraged elephant. He is the only one who has the privilege to shoot the elephant. This story is a good example of the way that being privileged is not always good. Some people take advantage of having the privilege to do certain things in a bad way.

Various translations of the word privilege in other languages (n-noun, v-verb)
Danish n-privilegium
v-priviligere
French n-privilege
v-privilegier
Spanish n-prvilegio
v-privilegiar

www.wikipedia.org talks about the special right or immunity granted to the government and democracy.

www.m-w.com gives you the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition.

www.privilegeibiza.com talks about winning a VIP opening package for 2 persons all inclusive and talks about parties and clubs.

www.imdb.com talks about a movies.

www.dictionary.reference.com gives various definitions of privilege.

As you can see each websites talks or gives information on what they consider to be privileges.

"Equal rights for all, special privileges for none." Thomas Jefferson

"To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools."