A Societal Misconception of White Women's Superiority over Blacks' in Childress's Wedding Band and Delaney's A Taste of Honey: A Psychoanalysis Study
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https://doi.org/10.31185/eduj.Vol62.Iss2.4864Keywords:
Alice Childress, Wedding Band, Shelagh Delaney, A Taste of Honey, a societal misconception , Freud's Psychoanalytic theory , white female superiority, black female inferiorityAbstract
This study examines the global social misconception of the whiteness superiority over blackness in both dramas; Wedding Band by Alice Childress, a black character "Julia" represents a fundamental sample to this study, and a white character "Helen" in A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney, who embodies the societal opposite polar to the inferiority of the black women. This study aims to tackle Sigmund Freud's (1923) Psychological theory of "id, ego, and superego", in discovering the false assumptions of prioritizing the values of whites over blacks. Through which the present study will authenticate this gap to overview the societal and psychological values and norms of the white and black people. Through the application section, various global facts of both types of characters will gradually reveal their inner strategic defenses towards their own daily issues and life routine. Consequently each will commence separately diagnosing certain un/conscious personal strategies, which are radically acquired in defending themselves and confronting their own life hardships. Furthermore in the conclusion part, and throughout the strategic possibilities of Freudian psychological three concepts, the study will rectify the notorious propaganda of white superior values which are socially overstated when it is compared to the radical values of blacks
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