The Wretched Of The Earth Franz Fanon Analysis

The world after World War II resulted in a period of time where the colonized countries wanted to revolt in order to gain their independence again. Every country had their own way of dealing with the foreign forces in their home country. Some people, like Frantz Fanon, believed that the only way to resolve the presence of strangers was to be violent against them like they were towards the native people but others such as Jamaica Kincaid and Mohandas Gandhi did not agree with violence as a solution. Frantz Fanon wrote The Wretched of the Earth to convince people dealing with imperialism that violence was needed to free colonized peoples. He said “the extraordinary importance of this change is that it is willed, called for, demanded” (Fanon 423). He is saying to people that if they want to make their suffering end, they have to

Gandhi said “only on condition of our demands being fully satisfied may you remain in India; and if you remain under those conditions, we shall learn several things from you and you will learn many from us” (Gandhi 410). Gandhi believed that it was possible to have peace between the two opposing cultures by being willing to learn and understand each other. He was one of the biggest influences on ending the brutal relationship between Indians and the English, but he did not believe that violence was necessary mean. Fanon argues “decolonization is the meeting of two forces, opposed to each other by their very nature, which in fact owe their originality to that sort of substantification which results from and is nourished by the situation of the colonies” (Fanon 424). He believes that the concept of colonies stands between these two different cultures being peaceful with each other. The idea of colonies means that one culture or nation is dominant to another which causes conflicts like those in India between the natives and