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Zeitgeist in contemporaneous literature
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in comparison to other novels and films
Introduction
The paper at hand deals with the question whether and to what extent elements of the zeitgeist can be found in Mark Haddon’s novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”. In order to be able to draw comparisons other pieces of literature and film will be incorporated when focusing on several zeitgeist phenomena.
First of all it might be appropriate to discuss the issue of zeitgeist on its own since the term is highly controversial. Zeitgeist describes the mentality of a particular period by catching the intellectual and cultural climate of an era. Hereby particular attention is given to the ethos of people who are from one or more generations and share a certain view of the world despite their different ages and social backgrounds.
Johann Gottfried Herder, a German philosopher wrote a critique on Christian Adolph Klotz’ work “Genius seculi” and translated “Genius seculi” as “Zeitgeist” into German, shaping the concept in its modern context. The term has multiple meanings, starting with the negative connotation that it puts society under pressure with aspects of fear and hope and ending with more practical approaches such as trends and prevailing tastes.
The following pages will examine the novel with regard to several zeitgeist phenomena.
Zeitgeist in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
When reading Mark Haddon’s novel for a while I came to realize that many of the story’s aspects reminded me very much of themes I encounter in current movies and TV-series all the time. A classical soap opera – that in my opinion perfectly matches the zeitgeist – is “Desperate housewives” since it includes various popular issues such as adultery, betrayal, murder and splitting up. Moreover it seems...
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