Kings Are Human : The Human Destiny in Joseph Heller`s novels, Especially in God Knows

ISBN-13: 9783639032734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 68 str.

Szabari Zoltánné

Opis

Average people often imagine kings,heroes and greatwarriors as superhuman creatures who are alwaysperfect,who are able to see over their realms,whosefeelings are adapted to the reality and the needs oftheir countries.However,they are only human beingswith average problems,average feelings.They can betalented children,brave soldiers,great artists,butthey can feel love,jealousy,pain,furthermore hungerand tiredness.They grow old and they have to die in the end,just asany other people in the world.This book describes a great king,David,from the OldTestament,from a human point of view.It especiallywants to underline that in spite of his greatdeeds,his talent,his heroism,he is only a human beingand cannot escape his fate.The king even agrees that"...one event happens to usall...",still he dares to challenge God''s wrath,hedares not to speak to Him. Finally,he has to realizethat everything was in vain,that his only companionon his deathbed and after it cannot be anyone else.This book should be especially useful to students ofAmerican Literature or History of the biblicaltimes,or anyone else who are interested in an averageman''s life happened to be a king.

O autorze

Szabari Zoltánné (Katalin),MA: Studied British and American
Literature and Linguistics at Pázmány Péter Catholic University
in Hungary. English Teacher for teenagers and young adults in a
secondary school,in Heves,Hungary.