Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One
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date published 29/10/2007
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SummaryEvelyn Waugh’s The Loved One is a novel that with its darkly scathing humor attempts to impart the message that the plasticity of the present tense is illusory by exposing the superficialities of California’s mortuary business. The contemporaneous effect that living in a world where a perverse and fallacious immortality is valued over true organic human spirituality is placed onto the characters that are followed throughout the bombastic narrative. Through the strategic perversion of language, architecture, and the human body itself, death is made into a very sterile and pleasing aesthetic. Although Waugh’s message is a legitimate one, he does not exactly create a work that makes its message enter into a grand homology with a greater holistic cultural dilemma because the satire is too aggressively focused on the present tense and therefore maintains a rather rhetorical pretension itself.
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- Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One is a novel that with its darkly scathing humor attempts to impart the message that the plasticity of the present tense is illusory by exposing the superficialities of California's mortuary business.
- Whispering Glades is populated by evergreen conifers and a myriad of famous replicated architectural structures that released from their original context become floridly offensive in their attempt to produce a significance that they do not deserve.
- It is painfully blatant that the characters inside of Waugh's narrative should burn in flesh, as the body should tend to do, when not inhabited by a soul.
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