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- W2137130108 abstract "The American novel since the Second World War is a fiction that moulded itself to postatomic ideas and responses and reached out to become something new. It is more than a body of work in chronological sequence. This is an era of American Modernism characterized by abstract expression in all the art form. In all its diversity, postwar novel has striven to defamiliarise the familiar, to make the reader reinvent the world. Reading of American fiction is, also, a reading of the culture from which the materials of the novels and the themes that the writers chose were derived. “By culture”, Frederick R. Karl says, “I mean not only literature or the arts, but the social, political and economic institution that help define a society” (Foreword XII). The present day writers have to respond to so many unyielding, rapidly altering and irresolvable conflicts. Yet, he boldly pursues the paradoxes of the American experiences, trying to reconcile the irresolvable, unwilling to be defeated by the presence of so much diversity. Norman Mailer was the American heronovelist who saves the meaning of America by seeing through the evil of technology, corporate and military power. In his novels he challenges those who would turn her into a “dowager” and exploits the moral psychology which challenges the Americans. This paper is an attempt to explain how the individuality of characters’ triumphs over the external pressure. Mailer explores the conflict between the individual will and established power in The Naked and the Dead , which focuses on a fourteen men infantry platoon that leads the invasions of a Japaneseheld island in the Philippines during World War II. Writing in an unsentimental narrative voice, Mailer discourages sympathy for any one character, focusing ambiguously on a likable liberal commander who is violently betrayed by an immoral and ambitious sergeant. As in most great realistic novels, themes and meanings in The Naked and the Dead arise out of clear characterization and structural techniques. In assessing General Cummings’ claim that history can be determined by the biography of great men such as himself who will bend armies to their will, readers must have recourse to the author’s careful delineation of human character in the passages relating the lives of the platoon members, where the shaping of personality is as much a matter of circumstances and the unforeseen timing of events as it is of deliberate calculation." @default.
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- W2137130108 title "The Triumph of Individuality in Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead" @default.
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