What Does Western White Prose Fiction Teach the Woke Generation About Othering and Belonging?

This research explores the portrayal of otherness and non-conformity in Western literature proves that modern phenomena such as “cancel culture” are giving contemporary authors a new relevance. Using William Faulkner’s Light August Joseph Conrad’s Heart Darkness my foundation, I intend to demonstrate lessons they provide on race, gender, extremism often ignored by Generation Z, yet applicable discourse. By referencing earlier works including Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, well George Orwell’s dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four, want prove warnings given about consequences trying eradicate multi-dimensional deeply entrenched. Ultimately, illustrates despite societal tendency make distinctions between normative “other”, line two is non-existent: attempts eliminate otherness, we become violent "others" ourselves, possessing characteristics “bestial” individual originally sought oppress.