Trauma of Identity in John Steinbeck’s The Moon is Down
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2009
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Department of English
Abstract
This research on The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck attempts to show a
vivid portrayal of traumatic experience in human life triggered by the violence of
the war and colonization. In the age of total war, people lost their life, liberty and
pursuit of happiness, along with people lost their identity by colonization. World
war and its destruction and the frustrated world view where colonization has
captured the identity of people. And the material list world ‘machine and time’
standout of human values and sentiments. Here, Steinbeck portrays and explores
the resistance of people against invading force and he also shows the pathetic
condition of armed force, where both sides—townspeople and armed force lose
their identity and make effort to revitalize the freedom. The longing of identity and
freedom runs from top to bottom of this novel.
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English Literature, Literary Criticism