A Study on Self-discovery Consciousness in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road
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https://doi.org/10.54691/66481208Keywords:
Self-discovery; consciousness; Beat Generation.Abstract
The novel of On the Road describes the situation happened during the period of the late 1940s and early 1950s.When the Second World War was over, the economy in the USA developed fast, and living standard of the Americans was excellent. However, the USA followed the principle of conservative thinking. The spiritual world of the Americans was like a wasteland. It depicts the social background of America in the late 1940s and the early 1950s, which is also the preliminary part to understand the whole social background.
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