REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN WILLIAM STYRON’S THE CONFESSION OF NAT TURNER

Abstract

The Confessions of Nat Turner, a story by William Styron, was based on the 1831 revolt of an African-American slave in Virginia. After first finding a mostly white American audience of critics, the job has subsequently been caught in the heavy polemical gunfire exchanged between two fundamentally opposed factions for an extended period. Both of these “interpretive networks,” to use Stanley Fish's phrase, have presented significantly different, or even incongruent, interpretations of Styron's text. The philosophical foundation on that your creator's guardians and sceptics have fought endlessly and typically bitterly is made on ideas like true truth, verifiable accuracy, mental verisimilitude, authorial aim, creative reliability, and racial depiction. Even though everything is equal, The Confessions of Nat Turner poses an array of fascinating questions. For the reason why for the current article, the point is, I'll confine myself to exploring just one of the primary conflicts of women characters in Nat Turner's tale.