Reflection Of Age Of Violence In Literature

Time roles on, but human nature is the same everywhere. The brute or the animal in man has always been asserting and prompting him to commit excesses to transgress the limits of decency, to violate the norms and to shun the path of virtue. As long as he acts as a rational being, there is always a tug of war between the two selves— the upper self and the lower self, the good self and the bad. Once the good self is conquered by bad self, violence and villainy rule the conduct.

Gone are the good old days when people set the highest value and importance to character. Character is systematized self—the victory of the upper self over the lower. The other way round -- tantamount to negation of character, strangling of manners, death of conscience dominance of vices and decay of humanity. It is true that man takes in vice more easily than virtue. Conscience, the grim judge sits in judgment, but when she is killed, when reason is thrown to winds, when the values are dead and in dishonor, honor lies, people fall an easy victim to vagaries and vices; take pleasure in committing most unscrupulous acts of violence and cruelty and laws are bravely flouted .Shamelessness walks proudly with head up.

This is age of violence for violence has become a way of life now-a-days as it is being consciously and openly depicted in literature without any moral scruple and caring for its destructive consequences on the society. It is indeed, like preaching criminology and giving wide berth to evil for evil always feeds on evil. Youth being hot is more prone to commit worst and heinous acts of crime and violence. It is like an infectious disease that is spreading fast over the globe.

The word violence has very connotation. Ordinarily violence means use of force, excessive unrestrained or unjustified force causing injury and loss to others. But in its wider contexts it means outrage, injury, rape, acts of profanity, lawlessness and licentiousness. We are living in the worst age of violence, increasing crimes and moral decay. Human beings who have been created the best image have become most deprave, profane, unjust, cruel and character less like the “Yhoos” of J. Swift the bitterest satirist. There are professional writers who hold a mirror to the age, not to cure the society but simply to sing about the crimes of flesh and blood. These moral dynamites are put into the hands of teenagers in the name of freedom of expression- human nature worst painted.

By: Frank Desantis

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Frank Desantis is a philanthrophist from the U.S.A. He is a writer by hobby and writes on various topics, especially Literature and Life in general.