Having a conscience is when one is able to feel if something is wrong or right. Many don’t bear a conscience because of personal experiences they encountered which left them traumatized. In Richard Wrights’ Native Son, readers are able to analyze the main character Bigger Thomas and the fear he has against the white society. The notion of him having a conscience is unbalanced. Does he or does he not have a conscience? In part one, Fear, of the book Native Son by Richard Wright, Bigger Thomas shows he has not conscience. Thomas grew up in Chicago in a very tight apartment with his mother, sister Vera and brother Buddy. He knew nothing but poverty and was stereotyped by the whites in his society every day. This made him hate his family because
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We can ask ourselves how can someone be so monstrous and make themselves believe that this is something that had to do. He kept saying that he had to do certain things like, cut her body up and burn her body. It can be inferred that Thomas felt he had to do these certain things because he felt it was the only way to cover his tracks. It can also be inferred that Thomas felt he had to keep Mary quiet because he didn’t want to be stereotyped. He was a black man in a drunken white woman’s room and if Mrs. Dalton or anyone caught him in there they could it as him taking advantage of her. He concentrated so much on not being caught and had all this anger and fear bottled up he didn’t realize he was taking it all out on Mary. He also had to get rid of her body so that nobody would find out that he was the one who murdered her. By murdering Mary, Thomas no longer felt powerless or belittled, “He had killed a white woman,” (Wright 87) he was in control and as powerful as a white person.
Later on when Thomas return home he shows no conscience after the crime he just committed, murdering Mary because it did not take long for him to fall
We can ask ourselves how can someone be so monstrous and make themselves believe that this is something that had to do. He kept saying that he had to do certain things like, cut her body up and burn her body. It can be inferred that Thomas felt he had to do these certain things because he felt it was the only way to cover his tracks. It can also be inferred that Thomas felt he had to keep Mary quiet because he didn’t want to be stereotyped. He was a black man in a drunken white woman’s room and if Mrs. Dalton or anyone caught him in there they could it as him taking advantage of her. He concentrated so much on not being caught and had all this anger and fear bottled up he didn’t realize he was taking it all out on Mary. He also had to get rid of her body so that nobody would find out that he was the one who murdered her. By murdering Mary, Thomas no longer felt powerless or belittled, “He had killed a white woman,” (Wright 87) he was in control and as powerful as a white person.
Later on when Thomas return home he shows no conscience after the crime he just committed, murdering Mary because it did not take long for him to fall