Abstract
<em>Postmodern conditions and experiences, specifically, uncertainties and contradictions, multiple interpretations or perspectives, rejection of universal, the loss of individual in the face of plurality, precede some kind of inherent predicament and dilemma as a residue or by-product of the constant commodification of life. Don Delillo’s<strong> </strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">White Noise</span>, as a product of the postmodern era by a postmodern thinker, incorporates these traits, and predominantly, the underlying dilemma. One of the issues of this research is to trace in this novel these postmodern contradictions and dilemmas, and subsequent bathos of consumer society, under the burden of intensified productivism. This research also aims at scrutinizing these socio-personal postmodern dilemmas in the characters of the novel and ends up analyzing some psychosomatic predicaments in their deeds and thoughts relating to the personal experiences and contexts of the readers of this novel</em>
Highlights
Postmodern conditions and experiences, uncertainties and contradictions, multiple interpretations or perspectives, rejection of universal, the loss of individual in the face of plurality, precede some kind of inherent predicament and dilemma as a residue or by-product of the constant commodification of life
Will you surrender to an endless vicious circle of consumerism or you will choose to die? This is the ultimate dilemma of postmodern life where products define life and its directions.The narrator continues by DeLillo, ‘Through products and advertising people attain impersonal identity. . . . It’s as if fantasies and dreams could become realized with the help of the entire consumer imagination that surrounds us, a form of self-realization through products’. (Nadotti, 93)
How do I know I really want to go and it isn't just some neurons firing or something? Maybe it's just an accidental flash in the medulla and suddenly there I am in Montana and I find out I really didn't want to go there in the first place. These questions are the outcome of confusion, uncertainty and dilemma in human life deconstructing the nature of truth, logicand understanding
Summary
Postmodern conditions and experiences, uncertainties and contradictions, multiple interpretations or perspectives, rejection of universal, the loss of individual in the face of plurality, precede some kind of inherent predicament and dilemma as a residue or by-product of the constant commodification of life. One of the crucial dilemmas in White Noise is between the serious issue of thanatophobia and its humorous treatment through sheermechanism; attributing a subsidiary entity to human existence and its feelings.
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