A Rite Of Identity Under Violence

Employing Frantz Fanon's post-colonialism theory mainly,with particular emphasis on its theory of violence,the thesis explores how Thomas Bigger explores a rite of identity in terms of self-awareness and self-identity before reaching the sublimation of the meaning of his own life in the Manichean World.According to Fanon,living in the ghetto is that the indigenous people face the adversity in some form of aggressiveness in order to cope with the destruction of identity by colonial rules.The hegemonism arrests Bigger's masculinity,deepens his psychic disorientation,and denies his rights of speech and the possibility of ordering his personal or social experience.Alienated from his social and cultural roots Bigger is unable to maintain a healthy relationship with his environment while he has the tendency to resist.He is pushed to the fringes of both public and private life.Bigger,nevertheless,manages to grow from a fractured boy who is oppressed by the colonial violence to a bloody boy who makes use of the “instrumental violence”.Finally,Bigger succeeds in accepting his own life and impending death by depending on the redemptive function of “absolute violence”.Bigger is both a victim and a rebel hero in the oppressed society.