Alienation and The Comfort of Strangers

International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research

دوره 12، شماره 44، تیر 2023، صفحه 153-163   

نوع مقاله: Review Papers

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.30495/jfl.2023.699912

نویسندگان

Saeid Unesi؛ Fatemeh AzizMohammadi^* ؛ Mozhgan Yarahmadi

English Literature Department, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

چکیده

The present study aims to study "Alienation" in “The Comfort of Strangers” a novel by Ian Mc-Ewan. It attempts to work out the negative and destructive aftermath of alienation in the protagonists of the novel. The research on the mentioned term is fulfilled as per the theories of Melvin Seaman. Ian Russell Mc-Ewan is one of the many examples, who depicted the mentioned element masterfully in his works, specifically in this novel. He goes beyond man’s expectations to show his readers the smashing consequences of human estrangement from the self and society in intelligence and function. Alienation is a venerable concept, with its roots going back to Roman law, where it was a legal term used to denote the act of transferring property. After World War II, when societal complexity started its increasingly accelerated rate of change, and the first signals of post-modernity were perceived by the intellectual elite, alienation slowly became part of the intellectual scene. Melvin Seaman (1918), a theorist which made a momentous modern and post-modern points of the view regarding "Alienation" after Marx and Hegel, was one of the first in the 1960s to develop an alienation scale to measure degrees and varieties of alienation

کلیدواژه‌ها

Alienation؛ Ian Mc-Ewan؛ Separation؛ Social Isolation

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