Finally, it shows how Bigger exposes his desires consciously through the accidental murder of Mary Dalton and aftermath dreadful inhuman activities.Īrticle Info: Received: Received in revised form: Accepted: Available online: ĭOI: 10.22161/ijels.62. Consequently, these repressed collective unconscious desires took unanimous days to be exposed sooner or later. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright’s powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America. It also analyzes the outer world of Bigger which goes under Whites’ control collapsing and repressing all his bright childhood days, simple dreams and usual desires to be contended as a native son. In fact, this paper targets not to prove that Bigger was innocent but to show what inherent factors engulfed his restless mind. Conducting qualitative content analysis method, it concentrates how a native Negro boy Bigger becomes entangled with the thought of identity crisis, color and faulty social circumstance facing indomitable fear and frustration. Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. Jung, Collective Unconscious, Conscious Fulfillment, Psychoanalysis.Ībstract: This paper examines Richard Wright’s “Native Son" from Jungian collective unconscious aiming the protagonist Bigger Thomas. Vol-6,Issue-2,March - April 2021 Author: Md.
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