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The human condition that Baraka speaks to is how people try to conform to society in order to not stand out. In Dutchman, we constantly see this through Clay. He never once speaks up against Lulu no matter what she says to him. It isn't until the very end of the play that he speaks up and says what's on his mind. But when he does, Lulu pretty much takes offense to what he is saying and kills him. I believe this is what many people go through in real life. They stay quiet in order to not cause trouble, but when they do find the courage to speak up when they've had enough...they get punished for it.

The symbol of the Dutchman and the train provides for better storytelling because it almost modernizes the slave ship. It is basically telling us that things around us may have drastically changed since those times but the human mindset has not. 

We see the human condition in a better way from Dutchman through the eyes of African Americans. We see that even when being provoked, society does not allow them to speak up for themselves. We see this when Clay bites his tongue at times when Lulu calls him racial slurs. Everyone on the train towards the end saw how crazy Lulu was acting and didn't do anything to help Clay but the second Clay stood up for himself everyone had judging expressions and even helped Lulu by throwing him off the train after she killed him.

I feel that "legitimate emotional resources of the soul" are those emotional experiences that we use as a point of reference. What I mean by that is we go through certain emotional experiences and learn from them and become stronger from them emotionally. They become more emotionally stable because wen something may happen they will think "this situation isn't nearly as bad as the other one". I think when Baraka says this, he means that people have certain things that will make them emotionally unstable no matter how strong they may be. There will always be certain situations that bring back past experiences to mind. I completely agree with the statement. Everyone, no matter how strong they try to be, will come across experiences that remind them of emotional ones they have in the past. It will bring up strong emotions that will cause them to become emotional. That is probably what happened to Clay in Dutchman. He was able to handle everything  Lulu was saying to him, but maybe she just said the wrong thing that sparked an emotion in him that caused him to act out.