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The Alienation, Recognition and Rebirth of Hero in Herzog
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Complaining that the legacy of early modern despair caused many writers to enlarge a particular sensitivity to banality and ugliness, Bellow accepted Judaism, which was positive, affirmative, optimistic. This essay deals with the alienation, recognition and rebirth of hero in Herzog from the view of Judaism. The hero is alienated from his family and friends because of his ego-centric character. He feels self-pity and expresses himself through incomplete and unmailed letter writing. But this letter writing means a forward step to solve his problem, even though the pattern of his thinking and feeling circulate only within himself. He still blames others for his sufferings, and not himself. In Judaism, suffering is essential to a recognition. After witnessing the trial of insane mother who kill her three-year-old poor baby and seeing his ex-wife and her paramour wash his daughter, he begins to understand the reality of life. He understands that life can not be explained and should be experienced. By abandoning his own ego and accepting the others as they are, he is reborn spiritually. Also Suffering is a bliss for the recognition of brotherhood, the uniqueness of an individual, the dignity and the divinity of man.
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