The Hot Breath of the Future: The Naked and the Dead

Glenday, Michael K.

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“…The Naked and the Dead offers "traditional plot patterns, conventional, even stereotypical, characterizations, constricted settings, and familiar themes-all packaged in the comfortable wrappings of an attractive, recognizable, often aristocratic, social scene" (Weld, 1992, p. 9). The Naked and the Dead shows postwar America, where Michael K. Glenday (2003) asserts that: "in its stress upon deterministic views of human behavior, and its realization of a world in which the individual is dehumanized and subjected to the efficient functioning of entrenched systems of control, The Naked and the Dead may seem a somewhat stale recapitulation of a vision and a style inappropriate to a changed postwar world." (p. 199) According to Glicksberg (1960), The Naked and the Dead transformed Mailer into "an enemy of the people", the Cain of American culture" (p. 25) because he tries to pay people's attention to the reality of America and its disadvantages.…”

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“…Like Cummings, Croft is totalitarian: Croft's nature subverts crucial features of the totalitarianism which Mailer abhors (…) His urges are irrational, instinctive, influenced by the pull of blood from a primitive ancestry; he too owns his ancestors' meanness, their frontiering drive to 'push down' and 'push in' to new, unknown territory. (Glenday, 2003, p. 206) Croft does not allow anyone to rebel and those who rebel are dismissed. Croft even does not want any leader like Hearn to buddy or talk with the soldiers.…”

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Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead as a Novel of Manners

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2018

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Norman Mailer (1923-2007) is one the most important figures among the American Writers, an extremely influenced personality in the post-world war II American Literature. He is best known for his first war novel The Naked and the Dead (1948), which is a commentary on the American society. Hence, the present study is an attempt to investigate and reflect the social ills and fragmentation, misery and the overwhelming social and political restraints that formed the American atmosphere at that time. Mailer is interested in what happens in the contemporary American society. His aim is to depict the national rituals of American life. The researcher in this study seeks to identify the literary aspects reflected and drawn in The Naked and the Dead that make us categorize it as a novel of manners for it is satiric and realistic in depiction, in which Mailer unprecedentedly characterizes the social mores, evils and customs that are characteristic of a particular class of people in a specific historical context. The descriptive approach along with detailed analysis is utilized in conducting the present study. The conclusion sums up the most important findings of the study.

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Section: The Naked and The Dead As A Novel Of Mannersmentioning

confidence: 99%