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Erin Shea (no login)
Posted Apr 22, 2008 11:03 PM
My research paper is going to discuss how society's constraints on expression change Bruno Clement from The Elementary Particles and Patrick Bateman from American Psycho's personalities for the worse.
In American Psycho, the yuppie culture of New York and the greed surrounding that culture force Patrick into a high-paying but boring job. In order to fit in he tries desperately to keep up with the latest trends and own the best of everything, but this lifestyle and the monotony surrounding it lead Patrick to need a release, with causes him to kill to get some excitement in his life and break the norm. I will prove this to be true in my paper through analysis of certain scenes in American Psycho and use the works of scholars like Ruth Helyer.
In The Elementary Particles, Bruno is deemed an outcast because of his "omega male" status. The almost constant rejection of him by women increasingly adds to his insecurities and causes him to become socially inept and also causes sexual deviancy because of the frustration he has built up over the rejections. To prove this in my paper I will analyze scenes in The Elementary Particles like the rejection of Bruno by Caroline Yessayan as well as using the works of scholars like Jerry Varsava.
I will also show the correlation between the themes in each of these novels and those in the authors' other works through the use of works by scholars like Jack Abecassis and Ellen Seay. |
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