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Analysis of John Steinbeck’s Group-Men Theory in Light of Thomas Seeley’s Honeybee Democracy
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Analysis of John Steinbeck’s Group-Men Theory in Light of Thomas Seeley’s Honeybee Democracy Kim, Joseph-Yosup (Kunsan National University) John Steinbeck introduces and deals with a biological concept of “group-men” in his In Dubious Battle. There has been a number of research or related research on exploring Steinbeck’s group-men theory with fish’s collective intelligence (or stupidity) since the 1940s even before the publication of The Log from the Sea of Cortez. However, no one has attempted to analyze such theory with honeybee’s collective intelligence. This study aims to examine group-men theory portrayed in the novel with Thomas Seeley’s Honeybee Democracy. Embodying the group-men theory allows Steinbeck observe the working people as the subject of communal life rather than that of good and evil through Doc Burton’s eyes. Doc Burton is a representative figure of Steinbeck’s non-teleological thinking through whom Steinbeck examines the problems of the existence of humankind and the (im)possibility of reconciliation. Even though Mac takes a role of a scouting bee, he and the community of the working people have failed to minimize the leaders’ influence on the group. This eventually leads to the collapse of the community unlike those so-called harmonious and “democratic” groups of honeybees.
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Analysis of John Steinbeck’s Group-Men Theory in Light of Thomas Seeley’s Honeybee Democracy Kim, Joseph-Yosup (Kunsan National University) John Steinbeck introduces and deals with a biological concept of “group-men” in his In Dubious Battle. There has been a number of research or related research on exploring Steinbeck’s group-men theory with fish’s collective intelligence (or stupidity) since the 1940s even before the publication of The Log from the Sea of Cortez. However, no one has attempted to analyze such theory with honeybee’s collective intelligence. This study aims to examine group-men theory portrayed in the novel with Thomas Seeley’s Honeybee Democracy. Embodying the group-men theory allows Steinbeck observe the working people as the subject of communal life rather than that of good and evil through Doc Burton’s eyes. Doc Burton is a representative figure of Steinbeck’s non-teleological thinking through whom Steinbeck examines the problems of the existence of humankind and the (im)possibility of reconciliation. Even though Mac takes a role of a scouting bee, he and the community of the working people have failed to minimize the leaders’ influence on the group. This eventually leads to the collapse of the community unlike those so-called harmonious and “democratic” groups of honeybees.
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