Postmodernist Ideas. Speaks of Barthelme's"The School"
Title: Postmodernist Ideas. Speaks of Barthelme's"The School"
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 565 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Postmodernist Ideas. Speaks of Barthelme's"The School"
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 565 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
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…showed last 75 words of 565 total…remember the closing paragraph where the kids ask the teacher whether death gives meaning to life. The answer he gives is that life is what gives meaning to life. One could justly ask: why is the story full of images of death then? Because the story seems to be a sketch of the society, which by breeding death (death in the symbolical sense: death of the ideas, joy, identity) prompts the postmodernists to reject it.