Seize the Day published in the 1950s, it is an epitome of the American society after the Second World War. In Wilhelm’s gold links charm fragmentary memories, it spans from 1920s to 1950s. With the development of economy, science and technology, the living standard of American people has risen and the postwar America has become an exceedingly rich country. The setting of the novel is the Upper West Side of New York City-its jewellery in London streets thickly lined by shops, restaurants and lavishly decorated baroque hotels. However, the superficial material prosperity cannot disguise the irrational character of human existence. In Wilhelm’s eyes, this london links sale is “a kind of purgatory” links of london and a world besieged by “plague”. Wilhelm suffers from the discovery that the whole society is plunged in increasing political and social confusion. Technological application links of london bracelets promotes the efficiency of production and improves man’s living conditions prominently, but the government ignores that technology is a double-edged sword; it brings mixed blessings. Pollution of industry, environment deterioration, transportation congestion and resource shortage threaten human life; automation accelerates unemployment and creates social insecurity. Furthermore, the government is not trustworthy and links of london sale democracy becomes an illusion. The problems of racial conflicts, delinquency, and crimes of prostitution, drug abuse, and illegal gambling overflow. The gulf between rich and poor grows significantly, which is also one of the main factors threatening the social stability. On the crowded and busy street, among london links the skyscrapers, you can see many “ragged shoeshine kids” (91) and poor beggars. However, the government has no time to pay attention to their miserable life. All what the government cares is only “revenue”. They impose such high taxes on people that even in fairly good years, Wilhelm is always stripped bare. In the noisy urban city, Wilhelm feels “every little thing is a strain” (30); he is troubled links of london by everything, like the alternate parking, he even does not know where to park his car, instead, he has to endure the torture of the parking tickets for he has no chance to lodge a complaint. It’s a businessmen’s government. Bellow criticizes the society severely which leaves itself to be controlled and destroyed by the businessmen, in that “maddest of all were the businessmen, the heartless, flaunting, boisterous business class who ruled this country with their hard manners and their bold lies and their absurd words that nobody could believe. They were crazier than anyone and spread the links of london charm plague” (58). “They burn up the world-oil, wood, mental, and soil, and suck even the air and the sky” (74).
The entire society is overrun with money worship and pleasure seeking. Money becomes the dominating force. Without it, one means nothing and will be despised. As a result of the craze for money, fame and power, the society becomes one without care for spirit. Vast, full of different styles, to some extent, New York’s towers are the new Babel, where people’s values and moralities are disintegrated. The virtue of courage, honor, frankness, friendship, duty are nowhere to be found, which have been swallowed links of london friendship bracelet sale by indifference, irresponsibility, deceit and hatred. “Cynicism was bread and meat to everyone”.
According to existentialism, the feeling of the absurd is based on the objective
Recognition of “the disproportion between [a man’s] intention and the reality he will encounter” (Camus, 22). Faced with the harsh reality and the problematic future of the universe, man seems continually less able to find order and meaning in his life. Like the existentialists say, everyone is here, everybody exists, but there is no reason as to why.
People are set among too much of the london links charm bracelets world’s business and too much falsity. They are addicted to drugs, drinking, sex and gambling to remedy their vacant mind. Seven percent of this country is committing suicide by alcohol. Twenty more who have sold their souls to the Devil
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Posted January 17th, 2012 by liubaiying
