“Concept of alienation” in Art When we look into the ‘art world’, one can find innumerable literary characters who feel painfully alienated from the social institutions that encircle them. Characters like Jake Barnes in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises (1926); Caddy Compson in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929); and Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). The alienation experienced by these characters sometimes goes beyond, and feel alienated
significantly in Europe. Some interesting and significant developments were evident in this period. The era of the capitalism saw very strong but simple antagonisms between the two economic classes – Bourgeoisie and Proletariat. The Bourgeoisie played a major revolutionising role by managing to change or overthrow all the social structures and institutions which prevailed during feudalism which was before their emergence. Feudalism: It was prevalent mainly in Europe in the Medieval Ages, especially in
Of Mice and Men: racial discrimination and its effects In Of Mice & Men by John Steinbeck, several characters were used to portray the effects of societal discrimination during the 1930’s. One of these characters was Crooks, a disabled African-American horse tamer who is alienated due to his race; causing him to doubt the possibility of attaining a better future for himself. Like Candy, --a swamper who is becoming fearful for his own future as a disabled elderly man--, his biggest aspiration is
Kaestle states there are ten major propositions that portray native Protestant ideology. Some of the propositions where “... the importance of individual character in fostering social morality; the importance for character building of familial and social environment (within certain racial and ethnic limitations); the sanctity and social virtues of property; the equality and
the fast emerging realities of the modern living conditions. In this effort, the writers of the post independence phase move inward. They get more and more psychologically intended and try to assess the sociological effect on the psyche of their characters. Fortunately, this movement from the outward gross realities to inward complexities found as its mouthpiece
Lizaveta. “He was positively going now for a ‘rehearsal’ of his project, and at every step his excitement grew more and more violent” (page 4). Alyona herself, who beats her sister, is guilty of criminality. Criminality is seen through most of the characters. Svidrigailov, a child molester who also attempts to seduce Dunya, is alleged to have poisoned his late wife. Sonia, a prostitute, with a mother who beats her children and a drunken father who is unable to hold a steady income. Dostoevsky capably
My thesis emphases primarily on racial stereotypes, gender issues, classes …. In other words Otherness (its causes and consequences) the chosen novel discuss the previous themes of racial profiling, injustice, slavery and the evils residues of the system. Through the novel, we can infer several images of otherness in that period of time widening the scope of stereotypes hence the Other’s image. Historical background about the theory of the Other The Other infiltrates our existence to the
at Twilight and Nayantara Sehgal, have ceaselessly captured the spirit of an independent India struggling to break away from the British and traditional Indian cultures and establish a distinct identity. In 1980’s and 90’s, India had emerged as a major literary nation. Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children had become a rage around the world even winning the Booker Prize. Other Indian
The “double-ness” of the Byronic hero, his ambitious rise and shameful fall has been used over and over again by modern and post-modern authors. In the well-known story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for example, Robert Louis Stevenson creates a character that is extremely rich and well educated yet insecure and needs to be accepted among high-society in order to boost his ego. His personality, however, being split in two deprives him of the “right” to be happy, because this other persona has extensive
Stephanie M. Camp notes that "enslavement . . . meant cultural alienation, reduction to the status of property, the ever-present threat of sale, denial of the fruits of one's labor, and subjugation to the force, power, and will of another human being. It entailed the strictest control of the physical and social mobility