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Death may not be the most popular dinner table conversation or make for stimulating chitchat during a work-out session, but it has certainly been written about, painted, sculpted, filmed, analyzed, medicalized, acknowledged, and denied in ways so elaborate and numerous that one has to wonder why it is considered a taboo in the first place. However, "death has always been distasteful to man and will probably always be" (Kübler-Ross 16), which makes the attempts to tame it continue to proliferate. As an emotionally driven field, literature abounds in images aiming to diminish the feelings of fear and anxiety evoked by mortality. The need to appease death angst has been expressed in such comforting famous lines as "And death shall have no dominion," "Death be not proud," "And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die," or "Death once dead, there's no more dying then." Yet, no matter how one interprets these reassuring thoughts, or what one's religious status in life is, in the end, "Death represents Nature's final victory over culture" and "[i]t is our perishing, not our bestowals of meaning, which is necessary" (Eagleton 163). While it is hard for many people to ponder mortality in a constructive and self-enriching way, from time to time one hears random thoughts such as "I will not live forever so let's have fun tonight" or "You won't take this money to the grave so buy this insanely expensive sweater." Consciously or unconsciously, mortality underpins many, if not all, human actions, and often, without even realizing it, we find it handy. This analysis approaches death as a phenomenon that inspires as well as helps to debunk lies and deceit, which constitute an equally integral part of human nature. The works discussed here are a rather eclectic selection of poems, fiction, non-fiction, and visual artistic representations, all of which reveal different aspects of the co-dependence between death and lies. (fragment of text)
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- University of Lodz, Poland
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