Book review essay question

p Book review essay question 2006

The human society is a very complicated structure . It consists of a huge quantity of members , each of them with their own thoughts , emotions and experiences . The notion of society ' unifies all those members and therefore , they must correspond to the standards of that society . They have to elaborate some special mode of living thinking , behaviour in to be like other . Being like all ' - that 's the main motto of human society of all times . Within the complex structure of society one can be

happy and rich , other unhappy and poor but everyone tries to be like the rest . But it is well known that each rule can have its exceptions . So , the human society has . There are people who are not able to find their place in the society . Each of them has his own reasons . One just doesn 't want to be like all , the other just can 't behaviour like people around him and so on . In the world literature the notion of the outsider ' has been rather often discussed . Among these discussions the view of outsider ' by Thomas Mann and Albert Camus are one of the most interesting

Tonio Kroeger in the novel of the same name by T . Mann is rather a typical outsider . So , what made him to be so ? Surely , he is an artist and the real artist is always a little bit different from the crowd . But there are many talented artists which are not outsiders at all in their real life . Tonio is a lonely artist . These two words- lonely artist ' are able to explain the Kroeger 's problem . The first word is lonely ' and the second is artist . The lonely ' is the reason and the artist ' is the consequence . Kroeger has become an artist because he was lonely and couldn 't find himself in this life . All he can do is creating art describing the reality around him but he is not able to live in this reality . He realizes that his inability and suffers a lot because of that . Some of the events of this story must be perceived in symbolic manner because of Kroeger 's difficulties in being like other . His homosexual sympathy to Hans Hansen hasn 't to be understood as just a physical sexual expression . This sympathy symbolizes the Kroeger 's aspiration for prestige bourgeois life as Hans was the bright representative of same . Kroeger couldn 't find himself in this bourgeois life but was eager of living like his ordinary contemporaries . That 's why Hans attracted him . Kroeger lived in constant paradox within him . His heart was the heart of an artist but in his veins the bourgeois blood was flowing . He wanted to be as easygoing and careless as his friends but he couldn 't be so because his mind was depressed all the time by the events of the life around him and he could only describe them in his art . That was the main reason...