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Literature of the Western World III 359 Final: June 8, 2002 Rich Burkhard (richburkhard@hotmail.com) The Pursuit of Defining One’s Personal Identity as Portrayed in Neoclassical - Modern Literature The pursuit of ones identity and the freedom to make that quest is presented in a variety of literary works. From Neoclassicism through the Modern and Contemporary literature periods, the idea of freedom and expressing one’s own identity continues to emerge. ... In an effort to expose the true nature of Orgon’s hired saint, she encourages Tartuffe to repeat his passionate endeavors while Orgon is hidden to witness the imposter’s advances. Orgon becomes convinced of Tartuffe’s true nature a little too late, for he has already assigned all of his wealth and property to Tartuffe. ... Much to Orgon’s dismay, and much to the dismay of society, the supposed piety of the established faith is not truly above reproach. ... Cleante is a good example of the burgeoning openness of society to examine issues in a logical and personal fashion. In Jean Racine’s, Phaedra, we find another example of an individual struggling to define himself within the confines of the societal paradigm. ... His dramas follow the neoclassical tragic form; they have five acts and the dramatic time of the action does not exceed one day, and the action is restricted to one locale. ... In Racine’s work we find a study of the passions which the human heart is susceptible to, above all, love. ... His works are often based upon ancient times, combining a neoclassical view with the Greek concept of unrelenting fate and an appreciation of human, psychological nature. ... His plays capitalize on the struggle between a person’s will and their inexorable fate, mixed with the destructiveness of human passion. ... Oenone, desiring to preserve her Phaedra, learns of the curse, her mistress’s love for Hippolytus, an incestuous passion that is killing her. Then, the news of Theseus, Phaedra’s husband’s death. ... In Voltaire’s Candide, we find a character trying to understand the evil that exists in the world and how to integrate its existence with an optimistic outlook. Candide will find through a series of journeys and happenings that the existence of evil cannot really be understood, but must merely be accepted and one must strive only to survive. ... Voltaire, born Francis Marie Arouet, is one of the most influential figures of the French Enlightenment. ... In Voltaire’s time, the condition of the French people was pitiful. ... In Voltaire’s story, Candide is sent to live with the Baron at his castle in Westphalia. He is the illegitimate son of the Baron’s sister. ... They joined with Paraguayan army, and when taken to see the colonel, was to recognize the Baron’s son. ... There is one religion, no war, no courts of law, and the king was a great guy. ... The king permitted them to leave and supplied them with one hundred sheep loaded with jewels. ... He was able to recover one of the jewel-laden animals. ... Candide recognizes two of the galley slaves aboard the ship, one his beloved Pangloss and the other Cunegondes brother. ... He is one of the greatest figures in Western literature. ... In Goethe’s Faust, Mephistopheles entered heaven and began to complain about the situation of man. ... God asked his enemy if there was one thing worthwhile about His creation. ... One Easter morning Wagner convinced him to travel with him to the city. ... No, Faust told his servant; one cottage remains that is not mine. ... The place of the individual in Pushkin’s city is to be lost in the crowd, and yet a part of a larger and much more important whole. ... Alexander Pushkin is a Russian 19th-century author who is often considered his countrys greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. ... At the Bronze Horseman’s appearance, Pushkin calls him a towering idol, developing the image of Peter-as-god. Peter’s statue now is the idol where the Russians worship. ... The possible purpose of this description is to encourage one to give their existence to the city, and thereby become fulfilled. ... Perhaps this as Flaubert’s big challenge: to enlist sympathy for a servant who confuses her dead parrot with the Holy Ghost, not as an oddity. ... Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground is one of the most influential pieces of fiction in Western European history and is an outstanding example of his psychological skills. ... It contains one of the first characters with childhood experiences leading him to fear love and intimacy. It portrays one of the first anti-heroes in fiction. ... In Dostoevsky’s The Grand Inquisitor, he poses this dilemma: if it were possible to make people happy by enslaving them, should we do it? ... One should realize things never change, and to question those who usurp the role of God, Jesus Christ, the Apostles and the Bible is to land in oblivion. ... Anton Chekhov’s, The Cherry Orchard offers us a view of a changing environment and the relationship of the individuals to that change. ... If their identity is tied to the past, then their lives are irrevocably impacted. ... In Luigi Pirandello’s, Six Characters in Search of an Author there are individuals seeking definition and expression by finding an author to represent them. Pirandello is an Italian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934 for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage. ... One of central concepts in his work is "naked mask", which refers our social roles and the on-stage relationship between the actor and the character. ... Franz Kafka’s, The Metamophosis begins with Gregor waking up in bed and finding that he’s just turned into a huge insect. ... No one can understand him. Gregor’s employer came to get him to work and leaves in a very nervous state. ... The father had saved some of Gregor’s money and the family would be able to last about a year. ... The only person who enters Gregor’s room is Grete, and she comes only to feed him. ... One night after dinner, Grete began playing the violin and the music lured Gregor out. ... Gregor’s metamorphosis gives him the identity he wanted, as the family finally notices him. But again, the results are not acceptable and Gregor finally dies a pathetic death; which in truth is the only true freedom and identity he will ever experience. Jorge Luis Borges is an Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer whose tales of fantasy and dream worlds are classics of the 20th-century world literature. ... The only indication of Uqbar’s existence occurs in a single edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. |
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