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6 pages in length. The writer briefly addresses social status in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Fielding's Joseph Andrews, Austen's Emma, Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, Dickens' Our Mutual Friend, Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Morrison's Beloved. No bibliography.
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world. Generations upon generations have been -- for lack of a better word -- brainwashed into believing that the white race is far superior to all others. Reprogramming
such ingrained concepts was not something she was to experience in her lifetime. As she waited in vain for any step forward toward a modicum of cultural harmony, she
was only met with a significant force of resistance from those who believed that white privilege was the manner by which the world was constructed. Racial prejudice was a
fact of her existence, whether or not she fully understood the reasons or implications. "Days after it was taken out, goose fat was rubbed on the corners of the
mouth but nothing to soothe the tongue or take the wildness out of the eye" (Morrison PG). Consistent with the oppression imposed upon
characters from Morrisons vast collection of characters, Beloved strikes a similar chord when it comes to the historical and religious perpetuation of racism. Slavery has shaped what Morrison calls
"the interior life" of slaves and former slaves, meaning the way in which an individual feels about himself, herself, the world, other people - with particular emphasis placed upon people
of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Americans to such an extent that the narrative style became tradition in African-American literature. The distinctive
elements of this literary style is quite easily recognized by their intensely personal attributes and quest to educate readers about racial prejudice and the tormented path each author has forcibly
followed to uphold his or her religious beliefs. As the development of bound labor in the American south moved from the indentured servitude system of the colonial era to the
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