Abstract: Patrick White is an Australian writer who is widely regarded as one of the most important English-language novelists of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short-story collections and eight plays. In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the only Australian to have been awarded the prize. His works have made great influence on Australian literary and even the whole world literary. The Eye of the Storm, one of his famous novels, is focused on the still moment in time when the purchase on life is slipping away -- an 86 year-old woman who has had a stroke and whose main show of vitality is in the gritting of her gums or the wetting of her bed. And now from other parts of the world, her son Basil and daughter Dorothy come to see her, then tells the contradictions and struggles between them. Unexceptionally, The Eye of the Storm has drawn worldwide attention and brought about lots of discussion both home and abroad. While this paper will analysis of the absurdity of capitalism in The Eye of the Storm. The paper can be divided into four parts. The first part serves as an introduction of the writer, the novel and some related researches about this novel. The second part is to analysis The Eye of the Storm from conflict and desire, two major characteristics of the absurdity of capitalism. The fourth part draws a conclusion of the major points. In a word, money is not everything, affections between family members and lovers can not based on the money. |
