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The Existential Features in Bellow’s Works in Terms of Jewish Assimilation
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Since the end of World War II, as a Jewish intellectual and writer, Saul Bellow has played most important role in American literature. Although he insisted that he was not a Jewish writer but an American one, his origin having a legacy of Judaic tradition that focused on living a moral life as well as being alive in America has led him to represent the views of immigrants from East Europe who had been persecuted for their ethnics. Basically the features of Bellow’s works are based on his Jewishness, and his heroes try to survive in the New World, America. In addition, Bellow himself tried to be a typical American by describing American heroes like Augie March and Eugene Henderson by way of various journeys into the World including America itself. In terms of alienation in America, whether he is Jew or not, everyone has to survive as an American citizen and affirm the fact that he can survive alienation by recovering the relationship with outer world including strangers. Henderson is the representative hero who substantiates the dream of his own paradise in America. He decides in his 50s to go to medical school and to help the sick, on his way back to America from journey into Africa. Through his symbolic journey to Africa, he recognizes the dreadful reality in Nature and the relationship with others in the course of Gelassenheit. Before the journey he was terrified by death and struggled to avoid it helplessly. But after realizing that it is impossible to avoid death, Henderson is willing to face the actual world and decides to become a member and part of the world. If we admit to live as an immigrant, we have to be alienated and be treated as a member of minor group. Bellow is not willing to be alienated from the world and as well synthesizes the features of Judaic tradition and American innovation. He neither admits American Jews to be alienated as immigrants. He ardently expresses the dream of Zion in America where his heroes and Jews can survive alienation and live fairly as American citizens, which is Bellow’s major goal.
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Since the end of World War II, as a Jewish intellectual and writer, Saul Bellow has played most important role in American literature. Although he insisted that he was not a Jewish writer but an American one, his origin having a legacy of Judaic tradition that focused on living a moral life as well as being alive in America has led him to represent the views of immigrants from East Europe who had been persecuted for their ethnics. Basically the features of Bellow’s works are based on his Jewishness, and his heroes try to survive in the New World, America. In addition, Bellow himself tried to be a typical American by describing American heroes like Augie March and Eugene Henderson by way of various journeys into the World including America itself. In terms of alienation in America, whether he is Jew or not, everyone has to survive as an American citizen and affirm the fact that he can survive alienation by recovering the relationship with outer world including strangers. Henderson is the representative hero who substantiates the dream of his own paradise in America. He decides in his 50s to go to medical school and to help the sick, on his way back to America from journey into Africa. Through his symbolic journey to Africa, he recognizes the dreadful reality in Nature and the relationship with others in the course of Gelassenheit. Before the journey he was terrified by death and struggled to avoid it helplessly. But after realizing that it is impossible to avoid death, Henderson is willing to face the actual world and decides to become a member and part of the world. If we admit to live as an immigrant, we have to be alienated and be treated as a member of minor group. Bellow is not willing to be alienated from the world and as well synthesizes the features of Judaic tradition and American innovation. He neither admits American Jews to be alienated as immigrants. He ardently expresses the dream of Zion in America where his heroes and Jews can survive alienation and live fairly as American citizens, which is Bellow’s major goal.
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