Quest for Spiritual Peace in On the Road and How

Abstract

ack Kerouac's novel On the Roadand Allen Ginsberg's poem How lrepresent the spirit against postwar American capitalism. Both writers have tried to destabilize the capitalistic culture. America through its capitalistic system dominated all other values imposing its own capitalistic interests. Capitalism in America valued only money and material possession. This dehumanized the common people and degraded their spiritual values. These writings have made an effort to bring spiritual oriented culture in opposition to capitalistic norms and values. So, the present thesis tries to study the spiritual lack in postwar American world and its fulfillment.