Suffering of Black people into the society and portrayal of black as a harmful people into the literature.

1. Conditions of Black People in
Literature :
• Name : Gohil Jyotiba M.
• Paper No : 11 : Postcolonial Literature
• Roll No : 16
• Enrollment No : 2069108420180016
• Email ID : jyotibagohil96@gmail.com
• Submitted To : Smt. S. B. Gardi ,
Department of English , MK Bhavnagar
Uni.

2. ● Condition of Black People :
• Suffering from inferiority complex
• Desire for beauty
• Consider as symbol of Ugliness
• Cruel behaviour from Society
• Portrayed as Brutal animal
• Portrayed White as higher position
• Portray more regressive
• Mental and psychological suffering

3. ● Othello : William Shakespeare ( 1603)
• Describe as animal and devil :
“Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise,
Awake the snorting citizens with the bell
Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you.
Arise, I say! “ - Iago
• Insecure
• tragic downfall
• Agressive in Nature
• Lack of self – knowledge : Unable to stop himself when Iago
begins to ignite his jealousy

4. ● Robinson Crusoe : Daniel Defoe ( 1719)
• Character of Friday
• Slave of Crusoe
• Lost identity ,Religion and way of life
• suffering from inferiority complex
• Obey masters instructions
• Submissive Nature
• Lost Freedom and Land
I can't keep calling you You, so let's give you a
name. – Robinson Crusoe

5. ● A Tempest : Aimé Césaire ( 1969)
“ Understand what I say, Prospero:
For years I bowed mY head
for years I took it, all of it-
your insults, your ingratitude-"
and worst of all, more degrading than all the rest,
your condescension.
But now, it's over!” – ( Caliban to Prospero )
• Character of Caliban
• Master –Slave relationship (
Prospero – Caliban )
• Resisting Nature
• Lost identity and land
• Powerless but Strong
• Called as Monster , ugly ape
etc.
• Face Humiliation
• Struggling for freedom

6. ● The Bluest Eye : Toni Morrison ( 1970)
• Desire for Blue Eyes
• Black Skin “ Ugly “
• Development of inferiority
complex
• Hatred from parents
• Symbol of ugliness and Hatred
• Reminder of Human Cruelty and
Suffering
• Suffering in society

7. Conclusion :
•Effect of Colonialism
• Power of white people in literature
• Suffering
• Incorrect portreyal of Black People
• Give wrong message
• Representative of social condition of
black people