This is a sign that marster Ned was brutal and wicked. He tore his clothes and showed the narrator his back, it was horrible. Yer thought I was a white man once, - look here” (Alcott 766). Robert goes further to tell Miss Dane “They whipped me till I couldn’t stand, an’ they sold me further to the south. She did not know that this was the tragedy that Robert had gone through at the mercy of Master Ned. When Robert mentioned about his missing baby to Miss Dane her eyes were full of tears, till she could no longer see (Alcott 769). “I never saw my baby, Missis” (Alcott 769) said Robert to Miss Dane. In the story, one will realize that the protagonist had a baby with his wife Lucy who was not found. Villainous and physically abusive character the author shows racism at its most extreme. The author also uses Brute Beast to condemn racism. Apart from being greedy, he was also brutal. Marster Ned is just a representative of the world today and how people want everything for themselves.Īll he cared about was his interest and satisfaction. This act of Master Ned portrays how much he wanted everything for himself, irrespective of the fact that Lucy did not want and love him, it did not matter to him. He could not have done this to another white guy. Master Ned did this wicked act because Robert was Black. Master Ned, being a white and already being well placed economically and socially in the society than Robert, still took from Robert the only thing he had and loved: his wife Lucy.
He sent my old mother to be used up in his rice-swamp in Georgy he found me with my pretty Lucy, an’ though young Miss cried, an’I prayed to him on my knees, an’ Lucy run away, he wouldn’t have no mercy he brought her back, an’-took her, Ma’am (Alcott 766). The author brings out Marster Ned’s greedy nature when Robert narrates his story to Miss Dane, I married her, all I could, Ma’am it warn’t much, but we was true to one another till Marster Ned come home a year after an’ made hell fer both of us. One of the characteristics of naturalism the author uses to criticize racism in this story is Greed. Later, during the Fort Wagner attack in 1863 Master Ned confronts Robert during the war and kills him.
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