Nigger

Abstract The paper makes a postcolonial feminist reading of Jean Rhys’s novel, Wide Sargasso Sea which is a subversion of Charlotte Bronte’s celebrated novel,Jane Eyre.It tries to show how in the novel, Rhys lends voice to Antoinette Cosway, the most silenced character in Jane Eyre and how she foregrounds the importance of creolized gendered subject within the hierarchy of European patriarchy. The paper unravels the way in which the sense of unbelongingness and gendered discrimination…

Societies are corrupt when racism thrives within in them. This is because race separates groups of people by their typical values and morals. Racism is treating an entire race differently based upon stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination, and active hostility; it affects an individual adversely and raise the corruptness in society. A corrupt, racist society can affect how a character grows and what their obstacles of life are. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and A Lesson…

describe the fight he says “Little skinner name of Smitty took after the nigger’. Using this derogatory choice of words Candy shows how Crooks is also considered an inequality. Steinbeck uses the word ‘nigger’ as black people during this time were still considered to be lower in comparison to people who were white. Candy later goes on to say ‘he would’ve killed the nigger’, as Candy continues his story he still uses the word ‘nigger’ and also, his excitement towards the situation grew which…

For a considerable amount of time, Lennie appeared as an innocent child at heart, despite his threatening size. Because of his benignity, all of Lennie’s previous misdeeds were represented by Steinbeck as accidental. However, when Crooks confronted him on George’s ideals and morals, Lennie began to change; “Suddenly Lennie 's eyes centered and grew quiet, and mad. He stood up and walked dangerously toward Crooks. "Who hurt George?" he demanded. Crooks saw the danger as it approached him. He…

wanting to save Jim that he knelt down and prayed to be a better boy. He had trouble praying, and he discovered that he cannot pray a lie, so he decided he will try again after he penned a letter concerning Jim. Huck Finn wrote “Miss Watson your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville and Mr. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.” Thus, Huck finally decided to conform to society’s pressure, and turn in Jim. However, after thinking about all that…

Salinas, and George tells Lennie, “You jus' stand there and don't say nothing.”(Steinbeck 44). Lennie is an innocent person, whose mental disability gets in the way of people liking him. Also, Curley’s wife says to Crooks, “...keep your place then, Nigger."(Steinbeck 120). This quote shows how whites have full control over blacks. Later, after finding out about Curley’s glove full of vaseline, George asks what the glove is for, to which Candy replies,“Curley says he's keepin' that hand soft for…

moved in the newly available house across the street from Allison’s. The narrator almost collides with Allison and looks up to see the new girl standing before him. He grins at the smiling girl and says hi. Allison stops and says, “Get out of here, nigger,” to which the girl just…

"’See, Ah told yuh dat nigger didn't love yuh. Me, Ah'll beg de Judge tuh hang me, and wouldn't take nothin' less than life’" (Hurston 68). Hurston's prevalent choice of using African American slang is one aspect that makes this novel unique in comparison to Toni Morrison's Beloved. This theme is not used as boldly throughout Beloved as it is used in Their Eyes Were Watching God, however, it remains parallel to the common African American background using words such as "nigger", "ain't", and…

Rochester notices that the white dress he ‘had admired […] had slipped untidily over one shoulder and seemed too large for her.’ (p. 80) The dresses represent the category she is attempting to mimic, but neither fits. She is too big to fit into the ‘white nigger’ category, and too small to fill the dress of a white woman. Julliet MacCannell believes that white woman already, ‘imply…

Regardless he wanted Tom found guilty and imprisoned for the act. Several times throughout the book he makes racial slurs towards Tom one sticking out in particular. “I seen that black nigger younder ruttim’ on my Mayella” (pg.231) the way he addresses Tom is humanly degrading. Many times referring to Tom as a nigger only addressing him by his name when forced in court. Bob Ewell represents all the racial people in the south during the Civil Rights Movement that wanted to blame the…