Self – Identity through Killing William Styron
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 5
Abstract
Fiction is a great secular force of man. He expresses his views about important things of human life and even his reactions to its bitter part. A writer translates human life into print and claims truth to it. About the truth to life represented by a writer, an unknown poet has rightly said: Friends, this is not a book, but a man If you read this, you read a man. Henry James also has expressed similar view about a writer as a representative of human life in a society. A writer describes manifesto facts of life. Such a writer is William Styron.Like James Baldwin, Styron may be called an angry black writer. But he is also an elegantly accomplished novelist who in a novel entitled The Confession of Nat Turner has represented himself as a Virginian who left himself intensely involved with the contemporary Negro struggle and has written a historical novel that reflects the racial conflict between the blacks and the whites and ultimately brings them together. Through this novel he has asserted the integrity of fiction. certainly his strong approach as a liberal Southerner has not overridden his novel, which far from being oratorical in the evangelical style of Harriet Beecher Stowe (who also wrote a novel about Nat Turner) turned Nat Turner into an extraordinary sensitive and dreamy addict who once petted with another slave boy but died a bachelor, who organized an insurrectionbut could kill no one but the white woman he loved, whom he could possess only by standing guard over her corpse with a sword.Thepurpose of this article is to explore the cause and effect of the racial discrimination in American Society.
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Dr. Suchitra Vashisth
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