society

• Tissue also presents a poignant commentary on society, illustrating how the items that are prescribed value by humans are often the causes of division and conflict.

  • This is a preface to what she goes on to talk about in her collection of poetry, "The terrorist at my table".

  However, social commentator Dharker provides a solution of sorts for this, by showing how she believes society should adapt.
• Dharker believes society should adapt.

  • For example, she uses the metaphor of building to be able to "fall away on a sigh", showing how she feels even the most ironclad beliefs that mankind holds should be adaptable and evolve with time.

  Alternatively, this could also be Dharker showing that she feels humanity's power to be short-lived and transient (lasting a short time), alike to the paper she compares it to.
• Dharker also elaborates on her social commentary when she says that she feels society should be more honest and truthful, shown by her use of alliteration in "turned transparent".