Industrialization The New Death
Industrialization: The New Death Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom. ... It is apparent in White Noise that a greater amount of mental stress is placed on modern individuals (such as Jack and Babette Gladney) which leads to an inflated fear of death. ... Industrialization and modern technology are the cause of the modern day human’s constant fear of death. ... Don DeLillo goes through great lengths to show the reader the fear of death that is hanging over the people of Blacksmith. ... The fear of death has dragged her morals so low that she hides her face with a ski mask and travels to a shabby motel to get drugs. ... Unlike Jack and Babette Gladney, the citizens of Pala are not concerned with death. ... Will Farnaby is dropped on the island of Pala as a normal, modern human with a fear of death. ... The only person I ever loved and admired and completely trusted; and, Christ, what the Essential Horror [death] did to her! ... After witnessing the devastation of the “Essential Horror” as a child, Will is frightened when he faces death once again in Lakshmi’s hospital room, Rounding a screen, he caught a glimpse of Susila’s profile silhouetted against a lamp, of a high bed, of a dark emaciated face on the pillow, of arms that were no more than parchment-covered bones, of clawlike hands. ... (Huxley 313) Will has horrible death filled images in his head, while the Palanesians around him see Lakshmi’s death as a spiritual movement. ... The Palanese do not fear death in the horrific light of the modernized world mainly because they do not have modern industrial mechanisms and chemicals to possibly kill or harm the citizens. People in the modern industrial age have good reason to fear death on a greater scale than their ancestors. ... Jack displays his extreme fear of the chemical, “That little breath of Nyodene had planted death in my body. ... I’ve got death inside me. ... in his body with death itself; could such a chemical be death in an altered form? ... In other words, as humans continue to destroy the earth, we are destroying our own selves and death is coming upon us.