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Death in White Noise - College Paper

Death in White Noise

Who decides whether an action is good or bad? Who decides whether a person is good or bad? Not a single person can be defined as either good or bad in every decision or choice that they make. There is no black or white. They all lie within the gray area. People in the real world make choices that define them as morally ambiguous, or in the gray area of good and bad. This moral ambiguity exists because of different factors within a person�s life such as temptations and fears. Characters in Literature tend to reflect the same morally ambiguity found in real life. In Don DeLillo�s White Noise, the character Jack Gladney represents a morally ambiguous character that proves that the presence ...

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[he] stood and listened� (97-98). Jack visited this old graveyard so that he could look into the past of those who once lived. He wanted to see what it looked like once death had come upon him. The presence of an oncoming doom from death makes Jack question his current life and situation. It makes him fear what is to come when he does meet death. Jack continues to show his obsession with death as he reads the obituaries in the newspaper. When he reads, Jack �[notes] the age of the deceased� then he �[relates] this figure to [his] own age� (98). Jack obsesses over how long he has left to live, because he realizes the presence of death surrounds him at all times. Babette shares the fear of Death with Jack and she hopes that she will die first, so not to be left alone. Jack wants to die first also. Jack, despite his fear of the idea of death and its presence in his life, becomes obsessed with death, as though he is trying to immerse himself in it to hide his fear.
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Added: 3/22/2011 07:05:32 PM
Submitted By: mkkuchan
Category: English
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1233
Pages: 5

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