Miski Jafe
Dr. Mahwash Shoaib
ENG 112
20 November 2016
Literary Analysis of the Weary Man’s Utopia
A Weary Man’s Utopia is one of the best stories of the late Borges. “No one cares about the facts anymore.” These are not my words but words of Borges’ in the story A Weary Man’s Utopia (Borges 460). The novel was written back in 1970 but the lines in the book still remain significant in today’s media triggered culture. The narrator of the story is a person traveling through a very vast plain or rather a desert in an open countryside where he happens to meet a very odd looking tall person who can only converse the Latin language. In weary Man’s Utopia by looking at the setting, plot, and characterization. The paper also explores the tension between particularism and universalism by analyzing various stylistic devices used by the author in the story. It also looks at the several questions of how fundamentalism can be achieved through justifiable terms for the Universalist as …show more content…
In A Weary Man’s Utopia, the author wrote a story that discourages any social interaction, emotional, literary, or cultural. Taking into account that the author was very insistence of human fallibility, the characterization, and setting of such a story is understandable. It is only in such settings as one created by the author that characters get relieved of personal burdens of humans and their ego. Through this setting, Acevedo is relieved of his fallibility and he is able to engage in the performance of everything that is reading, living, consuming by himself without being controlled by a certain individual or rather the government. According to the Tcherepashenets “The characters in the story do not have the ability to be emotional or have any feelings; therefore, joy, loneliness, and grief are not the concern in their current situation” (Tcherepashenets
Dr. Mahwash Shoaib
ENG 112
20 November 2016
Literary Analysis of the Weary Man’s Utopia
A Weary Man’s Utopia is one of the best stories of the late Borges. “No one cares about the facts anymore.” These are not my words but words of Borges’ in the story A Weary Man’s Utopia (Borges 460). The novel was written back in 1970 but the lines in the book still remain significant in today’s media triggered culture. The narrator of the story is a person traveling through a very vast plain or rather a desert in an open countryside where he happens to meet a very odd looking tall person who can only converse the Latin language. In weary Man’s Utopia by looking at the setting, plot, and characterization. The paper also explores the tension between particularism and universalism by analyzing various stylistic devices used by the author in the story. It also looks at the several questions of how fundamentalism can be achieved through justifiable terms for the Universalist as …show more content…
In A Weary Man’s Utopia, the author wrote a story that discourages any social interaction, emotional, literary, or cultural. Taking into account that the author was very insistence of human fallibility, the characterization, and setting of such a story is understandable. It is only in such settings as one created by the author that characters get relieved of personal burdens of humans and their ego. Through this setting, Acevedo is relieved of his fallibility and he is able to engage in the performance of everything that is reading, living, consuming by himself without being controlled by a certain individual or rather the government. According to the Tcherepashenets “The characters in the story do not have the ability to be emotional or have any feelings; therefore, joy, loneliness, and grief are not the concern in their current situation” (Tcherepashenets