Author(s)

Lin Xiaomeng ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Studies, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China

Corresponding Author

Lin Xiaomeng

ABSTRACT

The Eye of the Storm is a novel by Australian writer Patrick White delves into the dehumanization and alienation embedded in human nature evoked by money-supremacy in modern society, and reflects the spiritual dilemma of contemporary gentrified class who are plagued by objectification and fetishism of monetary relations. With recourse to certain theories in modern psychology and sociology, this paper scrutinizes the representation, essence and intricacy of spiritual alienation in this story, in order to provide inspiration for cultivating correct ethic value in such a postmodern context. This paper is grounded in analytical basis as the permeation of alienation, morbid need hierarchy in precedence, a lopsided dichotomy between instrumental and value rationality that results in loss of integrity and judgment, and the conflict between different aspects of self where the uncivilized desire reigns. All the elaboration is conducive to cast reflection on the anti-manipulation of money-worship of the spiritual world in a post-modern context, facilitating the contemplation on the process of deconstruction of a distorted identity controlled by exterior material relations, and a reconstruction of self-extricated from alienation.

KEYWORDS

The Eye of the Storm, Alienation, Dehumanization, Fetishism, Patrick White

CITE THIS PAPER

Lin Xiaomeng, An Analysis of Spiritual Alienation in the Eye of the Storm. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 153-159. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070523.

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