Ernest Becker's Terror Management Theory (TMT) provides a frame for discerning how man encounters the fear of death and its anxiety. As indicated in this theory, man controls his fear of death by devoting himself to cultural ideologies that supply meaning and purpose, and preserve self-esteem. Don DeLillo's novel Point Omega (2010) delves into these ideas through Richard Elster the main character of the story, a former defense veteran who grapples with the fear of death and anxiety. His engagement in war strategies management forms his ideology, which is investigated in the novel; he secludes himself in a remote desert to meditate on time and place. Mainly through Elster’s character, DeLillo exhibits how cultural and social ideologies, existential dilemmas, and the fear of death intertwine with each other by presenting a convincing exploration of TMT's crucial notions. The novel's contemplation of existential matters and the man’s condition accords with the opinions presented in Becker's book The Denial of Death. (1973) The desert and the use of film as a medium play a significant role in highlighting the themes of transience and man’s yearning for meaning and immortality. The novel's subject matter and characters perform as a meditation on the man’s condition, underlying how people conduct the fear of death and look for meaning and importance in the face of mortality. It reflects the parallel of DeLillo’s way of writing and the key concepts of TMT.
sarokhil saberi,S. and parvaneh,F. (2023). Becker’s TMT and the Reflection on Mortality in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega. Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies, 4(4), 37-42. doi: 10.26655/JELCS.2023.12.6
MLA
sarokhil saberi,S. , and parvaneh,F. . "Becker’s TMT and the Reflection on Mortality in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega", Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies, 4, 4, 2023, 37-42. doi: 10.26655/JELCS.2023.12.6
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sarokhil saberi S., parvaneh F. (2023). 'Becker’s TMT and the Reflection on Mortality in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega', Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies, 4(4), pp. 37-42. doi: 10.26655/JELCS.2023.12.6
CHICAGO
S. sarokhil saberi and F. parvaneh, "Becker’s TMT and the Reflection on Mortality in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega," Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies, 4 4 (2023): 37-42, doi: 10.26655/JELCS.2023.12.6
VANCOUVER
sarokhil saberi S., parvaneh F. Becker’s TMT and the Reflection on Mortality in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega. JELCS, 2023; 4(4): 37-42. doi: 10.26655/JELCS.2023.12.6