The concept of humanity is quite broad. However, it has its different perspectives, although it can be narrowed down to human beings as a collective along with their character and cooperation. With two literary works ‘The Book of Negroes’ and ‘A Raisin in the Sun’, both having the perspectives of institutionalized racism and religion with one having an implicit bias and the other having an explicit bias, these literary works generate an understanding of humanity and afford greater insight into Canada’s shared humanity through identity, comfort, and nature.
Firstly, Aminata from ‘The Book of Negroes’ shows that she is looking for her identity. However, she feels she can only find her identity once she has obtained her freedom. Aminata started losing her sense …show more content…
In a first-person narrative, her perspective shows herself as an individual conflicted again society as well as conflicted from within with the human spirit slowly prevailing. Aminata realizes that being in chains literally and figuratively is more than just skin deep, it is the conditioning overtime can and will oppress an individual's identity which Aminata when searching for freedom. On the same note, Benetha from ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ is also in search for her identity, however she faces and surpasses oppressive circumstances. In the 1950s, when slavery was abolished over a century ago, racism and discrimination was still prevalent. As much as Benetha would want to embrace her features as a black woman, the people around her subliminally oppress her especially her ex suitor George Murchison who is arrogant and expressively assimilates to white culture. She has also happen to have lost her religious faith as she supposedly discredits ‘God’ as a being and only an idea being that she wants to be rewarded for her own good doing and not a being who can only be seen as a concept which gets her immediate backlash for her opinion. Her strong ambition to be a doctor it's a sign that she
Firstly, Aminata from ‘The Book of Negroes’ shows that she is looking for her identity. However, she feels she can only find her identity once she has obtained her freedom. Aminata started losing her sense …show more content…
In a first-person narrative, her perspective shows herself as an individual conflicted again society as well as conflicted from within with the human spirit slowly prevailing. Aminata realizes that being in chains literally and figuratively is more than just skin deep, it is the conditioning overtime can and will oppress an individual's identity which Aminata when searching for freedom. On the same note, Benetha from ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ is also in search for her identity, however she faces and surpasses oppressive circumstances. In the 1950s, when slavery was abolished over a century ago, racism and discrimination was still prevalent. As much as Benetha would want to embrace her features as a black woman, the people around her subliminally oppress her especially her ex suitor George Murchison who is arrogant and expressively assimilates to white culture. She has also happen to have lost her religious faith as she supposedly discredits ‘God’ as a being and only an idea being that she wants to be rewarded for her own good doing and not a being who can only be seen as a concept which gets her immediate backlash for her opinion. Her strong ambition to be a doctor it's a sign that she