![]() Imprisoned by a congenital situation, set on a rigid pathway and thrust into an awful fate, Bigger was born with the very death sentence he would officially receive twenty years later. The tragedy of Bigger was a three-part progression. For this, he dreaded his own fate: the inevitable outcome of a life constrained by social forces determined by a billowing and intangible oppressor. Bigger feared that as a young black male living on Chicago’s South Side his life course was inalterable. What Bigger was most scared of, more than anything in the world, was the inexorable certainty of his future. Bigger Thomas was a gross exception to this theory. An old adage states that the single greatest source of human fear is the unknown we are most afraid of what we cannot predict given our limited ability of foresight. ![]() It drives our actions, dictates our beliefs and sometimes, as in the case of Bigger Thomas, mandates the type of person we become. Fear is a common emotional thread woven deep within the fabric of mankind. ![]()
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