An Analysis of Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow

Name: Supawinee Ruammai

LCSH: English fiction -- History and criticism -- Research

LCSH: Prose literature -- Research

LCSH: Humbold's Gift -- Fiction -- Research

LCSH: Bellow, Saul, 1915- -- Research

LCSH: English litreature -- History and criticism -- Research

Abstract: Saul Bellow is considered one of the foremost twentieth-century fiction writers. Bellow is a Jewish writer who is deeply rooted in his respective traditions of Judaism and Christianity. He is also one of the moral critics of contemporary society especially the American society. He utilizes his skills in combining the strength of a thinker, a moralist, and an artist in his works. The purpose of this study is to analyze the prominent ideas Bellow presents in Humboldt's Gift. The outcome shows that the prominent ideas Bellow frequently reflects in this novel are about politics, society and culture, money, and sexual issues. He always presents these issues at a high rate. Humboldt's gift is the legacy that the legacy that Humboldt leaves for Charlie and Kathleen. It is a manuscript of a play. Actually, the phrase "Humboldt's gift" is symbolic in two ways. At first it is a symbol of money or wealth. Money is basic necessity. Also, Charlie used to worship money as a God. Later, "Humboldt's gift" becomes a symbol of simplicity and priceless lessons in life for Charlie. "Humboldt's gift" changes Charlie's attitude about money. During the hardest time in his life, Charlie finds out the truth that real happiness is not derived from money, but from the internal beauty such as true kindness, sincerity and cares of the people around him and his close friends and from calmness in his mind. Charlie no longer worships money. He unloads 'money' from his mind. Significantly, Humboldt's Gift is written by using first person point of view and depicts paired opposite, such as virtues and vice, wealth and poverty, love and hatred, fortune and misfortune, honesty and dishonesty, and normality and absurdity. He presents paired opposites of the main characters, Charlie Citrine, a successful playwright, and Von Humboldt Fleisher, a failed writer and poet. In short, this novel often reflects not only social and historical issues during the early and the middle twentieth century, but it also reflects human nature.

Mahasarakham University. Academic Resource Center

Address: มหาสารคาม (Maha Sarakham)

Email: library@msu.ac.th

Name: Surasak Khamkhong

Role: Advisor

Created: 2003

Modified: 2006-08-02

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ISBN: 9745488887

CallNumber: Res 823.909 Su959A

eng

DegreeName: Master's of Education

Level: Master's Degree

Descipline: English

Grantor: Mahasarakham University

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