Marx, Myth and the Making of a Man

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This paper compares the stories of the protagonists in each novel about their personal search for meaning and connectedness between their own lives, their cultural heritage, and their place in their modern society. Because the characters' search for meaning is very similar in both books, the paper uses this similarity to evaluate the characters. It then applies Marxist criticism and myth criticism to the books to identify the social forces that drove these characters into their personal odyssey. Through these two common post-modern philosophies, this paper asks and attempts to answer questions about what the men hoped to find and what elements were included in their personal epiphanies.

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"Throughout time, the question that has nagged at the souls of men more than any other has nothing to do with how much money a person earns, or what place in the social strata of the day will be their final resting place. Our culture has based much of its existence on means to purchase an identity based on the size of a bank account, but this has not quenched the fire to discover a man's true identity. The engines which manufacture a society's identity, and stamp it in the pages of history turn without ceasing, These engines, although run by men seeking to make their mark on time, do not themselves give to men their identity, and purpose."

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