Insensitive Setting
Insensitive Setting
A naturalistic world is one in which nature is absolutely unresponsive to events on earth and it emphasizes the role of society on the actions of a person. The universe is a closed structure where no God intervenes on Mother Nature or human affairs. This is essentially naturalism. Bigger Thomas, in Richard Wright's Native Son is part of this closed structure. His life is not predetermined, but shaped by people and places around him. Unfortunately, Bigger had the misfortune of learning from a cruel environment. Bigger's environment continually emphasizes naturalism and naturalistic symbolism by portraying his surroundings as oppressive, apathetic, and indifferent.
The setting of Native Son emphasizes naturalism by depicting Bigger's environment as harsh, and a place fueled by hate and racism. Bigger's home is a place that partly shaped him into the angry violent person he is. The opening scene of the novel describes his home to be a "tiny one-room apartment......
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