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In the book, White Noise by Don DeLillo, Jack Gladney is a small town college professor of Hitler Studies at the College-on-the-Hill. Throughout the book, Jack obsesses over the fear of death that makes him contemplate his life and the elements that come with it. The element that he continues to question is technology. Technology is a large aspect of humans and how we function. DeLillo shows his audience how technology is a major element in this book. The author highlights this when Jack is told

unfamiliar, the fear of these things—repeatedly emerge in eighties’ texts. Whether it be novels, plays or short stories, the strange, the diseased, the dead and the terror of a combination of these things is strikingly evident. White Noise by Don DeLillo, for example, provides its audience with a depiction of a landscape of fear in the eighties. It reflects how the average American felt about impending doom, about society and the changes in society that were unknown to them. It provides a basis of

In Don Delillo’s Underworld, the baseball is sought after as the ultimate goal and a fulfillment in life for Nick and the memorabilia collector. On the other hand, the ubiquitous use of waste throughout the novel is a motif of both the byproduct and the opportunity cost of mankind’s quests for fulfillment. Waste, whether as literal waste, wasted love, wasted lives, or objects all serve as a contrast to the value of the baseball as an object of fulfillment. The baseball Bobby Thomson hit is important

Don DeLillo is an American writer born in 1936. DeLillo is a postmodernist and has written eleven books receiving various awards for his work. The title of DeLillo’s eighth novel White Noise brings forth many assumptions towards the overall meaning of the book. If one was to generally interpret the meaning, “white noise” is produced when sound waves are joined together creating a constant buzz. This buzz can produce a relaxing or an overwhelming feeling, depending, if it refers to a repetitive noise

Death is a vapor that seeps through the fissures of life, plunging its way into a person’s existence. Throughout White Noise, Don Delillo uses death to invoke a harrowing fear Jake Gladney and others alike strive to elude. From power to drugs, the terror drives characters to shroud their life with distractions and shields. Jack's influence and power as the chairman of Hitler Studies gives him a sense that a person can be larger than death. Babette’s defense is drugs, attempting to eradicate the fear

Addiction... it is a word that almost everyone is afraid of. The most common addictions are on: cigarettes, drugs or alcohol. There are million cases all around the world connected with these kinds of problems. People are concentrating on them and are not aware that there are less severe kinds such as: Zombie Consumerism. When we buy without thinking, motivated by a super-low price, passion or enormous appetite we are guilty of Zombie Consumerism. Shopping is seen by many addicts as a release from

discusses why the naming of things has such a high impact. DeLillo suggests this matters because it all comes back to simulacrum, perspective, and questions the reality of these things due to all the different perspectives. The truth is reality does not change, reality stays the same; it is simply perspective. Ultimately White Noise allows readers to ponder on the problem of naming and evaluate solutions to the world of uncertainty. DeLillo uses this postmodern setting to argue that the problem is

(Oakeshott) The idea of the lacking of realness is one of the major themes carried out throughout the novel White Noise by Don DeLillo, especially through the device of the television. “For most people there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.” (DeLillo 66) The television in the novel White Noise is portrayed almost as a character and plays a significant

the semantic field of religion that follows throughout the novel. This is illustrated in the description of information as: “we are not witnessing the flow of information as much as pure spectacle, or information made sacred, ritually unreadable” (DeLillo 2003, p.80). The protagonist worships information, as a source of eternal life, mimicked in the sentiment: “People will not die. Isn’t this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information” (p.104). Eric wants this;

The Failure of Technology in White Noise by Don Delillo One particularly unfortunate trait of modern society is our futile attempt to use technology to immunize ourselves against the fear of death. The failure of technology in this regard is the general subject of Don Delillo''s book White Noise. Throughout this novel, technology is depicted as the ominous messenger of our common fate, an increasing sense of dread over loss of control of our lives and the approach of inevitable death in spite