ENG1501 - Foundations In English Literary Studies (ENG1501)
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Development of Internal Conflict within the narrator, NthikengMohlele
Small Things
This essay explores how the artist suffers a traumatic tragedy of multiple internal conflicts
due to a misfortunate life from early age in orphanage throughout his release from prison.
The failures of love with Desire, the loss of home and his identity due to arbitrary eighteen
years of imprisonment and social rejection after being released from prison will be discussed
as sources of conflicts. The first paragraph describes Nthikeng as an outspoken writer of
articles in Sophiatown - a racial divided homeland- that led him into eighteen years of
incarceration. Second point describes his homelessness after his release from jail. Third point
shall look an internal conflict that develops again after failing love with his sweetest Desiree.
The forth argument will examine his denial against social conformism where he decline a
luxurious post in the department of Tourism hence he didn’t want a different life. Final
conclusion shall globalise all the elements highlighted in the body and creates an impression
that leaves readers to question whether the artist was fine with his choice of loneliness or this
was a repercussions of separatist Apartheid Regime that impaired his true existence.
To begin with the protagonist, Nthikeng narrates loss of hope, love and his true identity in
his homeland Johannesburg. His misfortune started at early age where he grew up in
orphanage there in Sophiatown as an outspoken child and none conformist. Soon after
becoming a journalist, he started writing and publicising subversive articles which made him
to be suspicious conspirator and as consequence – he got arbitrary arrested for all eighteen
years in jail without fair justice. His life in prison, and torture by Major Joubert- who
represents the evil Apartheid Government - made him to totally oppose and lost hope in
Government chance that might be given to him even after release. An internal serious
conflict starts within himself where the artist does not “think much of life” but is “never sure
if this conclusion is without some blemish, some residue, however faint, of an ounce of
madness…”
In addition a sad brutal past, a climate of despair devastates Sophia town, a city once
labeled back then as the ‘Chicago of Africa’ where a representation of the possibility of a
urban lifestyle was solely meant for white people while the middle class aspirations were
totally consumed in the ash of political inhumanity, repressions, and poverty. This system
blocked the author’s quest for self-reliance and obstructed his reclamation of humanity and
justice through his art of criticism.
Furthermore, the incarceration of the narrator for all 18 years in the city meant to be a
home for hope, turned this credo into an everlasting conflict and skepticism against a
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racialized city of Johannesburg thus describing it as „inhuman landscape featured by a
climate of eternal hole of despair‟ where a huge flourishing skyscrapers epitomize a violence
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