Kobo Abe Essays
Identity Found: An Analysis of Existential Allegories to Modern Japan in Abe’s The Woman in The Dunes College
The Woman in the Dunes
Life is full of intricacy and irony. Escapism can turn into captivity. And in captivity, there may lie freedom. Incredulous and nonsensical as it may sound, one can indeed find freedom in imprisonment, or, at least, it appears valid in the case of...
Views on the Relationship of the Individual and Society in Oryx and Crake, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and The Woman in the Dunes College
The Woman in the Dunes
The relationship between society and the individual is presented in powerfully differing ways in the novels Oryx and Crake, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and The Woman in the Dunes. While Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake shows how the...
The Search for Self-Achievement: Abe's Woman in the Dunes 11th Grade
The Woman in the Dunes
In The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe, the protagonist Niki Jumpei leaves his work and family behind in search of a new species of beetle. On his search, Niki finds himself trapped in a hole amongst the sand dunes, and he initially tries to...
Sand as Representative of Community in Woman in the Dunes 12th Grade
The Woman in the Dunes
Sand in The Woman in the Dunes is an omnipresent force that cannot be easily escaped. In the novel, sand is defined as an aggregate of rock fragments, sometimes including loadstone, tinstone, and more rarely gold dust, with a diameter of 2 to...
Productivity and Psychology: A Comparison of "The Metropolis and Mental Life" and "The Bet" College
Beyond the Curve
Human beings, as thinkers, tend to assume that there is a causation for everything. Whether it can be proved through physics, psychology, or experimentation, most natural phenomenons have several explanatory theories that attempt to explain why...
