William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch as Satire

Abstract

The present research work is a study to see William S. Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch as a satirical novel of Post War era. The study focuses on the aspects of the novel that directly exposes the contemporary American capitalistic norms and value of the time. The people and the characters that the novel talks about are very satirical who indulge in practice of excessive wandering in search of drug, drug use, murdering for nothing, sexual indulgences, pseudo-scientific experiments, sexual orientation, sexual fantasies, economic conspiracy and struggle for power. The novel exposes all the vices, follies, criminalities, evils, hypocrisy and contradictory nature of western society, especially of American. Thus, the present study invites the researcher to see the text as a satire to show how the western culture, society, politics and economy verges on the criminal.