![]() ![]() Not until the end of Native Son (“But what I killed for, I am!” 429), he does realize his being an individual with particular needs and emotions. In fact, Bigger is considered to be a stereotype representing the whole black mass. They provoke hatred and are not able to see reality as it is. It is both a rationalization for those who are looking and a disguise for those who are looked at.” Īlmost all the characters, occurring in the novel, are “blind” in a figurative sense, which makes them prejudiced or apparently charitable not knowing what they are actually causing. This motif, next to others (such as “whiteness”), supports an idea: referring to James Nagel, it is “ operative throughout the novel ” and provides the impression of “ a lack of understanding and of a tendency to generalize individuals on the basis of race. ![]() Thus it has got a significant meaning to develop the novel’s general theme. The motif of “blindness” is an idea that recurs many times in Richard Wright’s masterpiece Native Son. The Motif of “Blindness” in Richard Wright’s Native Son ![]()
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