discovering new worlds, which are extrapolated in William Shakespeare's 1661 tragicomedy ‘The Tempest and J.D. Salinger’s ‘Catcher in the Rye’ (1951). Shakespeare’s‘ The Tempest’, elucidates the transformative power of planned discoveries that manifest an individual's desire to re-evaluate assumptions and unveil fresh insights into humanity’s moral flaws. Similarly, The Catcher in the Rye’ demonstrates that physical and intellectual discoveries can elicit an emotional
scared of growing up? Is it acknowledging that one has to then become mature and in turn take responsibility for themselves and their actions? The loss of innocence is the major issue that Holden faces in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. The author uses major devices such as symbolism and characterization convey the theme that is the loss of innocence that comes with growing up. Salinger illustrates the theme through these devices to show that losing innocence comes along with growing up and
Many authors use symbolism to express ideas and convey a message that may not be clear to the reader. In the novel Catcher in the Rye, Holden, the main character, retells a story about his experiences over a three day period that mainly takes place in New York City and along the way Holden gets confused and doesn’t know what to do next. He feels depressed throughout the novel and feels like isolating himself from the world. J.D. Salinger uses symbolism in the form of ducks at Central Park to represent
considered as the 'supreme literary portrait' of alienation, whereas for some, Achilles in the Iliad. Other literary works portrayed as dealing with the concept of alienation are: The Bell Jar ( 1963), Black Boy (1945), Brave New World (1931), The Catcher in the Rye (1951), The Chosen (1961), Dubliners (1914), Fahrenheit 451(1953), Invisible Man (1952), Mrs. Dalloway(1925), Notes from Underground (1864), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), The Stranger