Hedonism and the Hobbesian: the dichotomy of the creator in a European literary State of Nature

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 74, University of Warwick, language: English, abstract: This essay aims to address the dichotomy faced by the 'creator' in the European novel - a collision between the fundamental desire to strive for immortality by projecting a shadow of oneself through time, or to adopt a hedonistic disregard for convention born from a failure (or unwillingness) to achieve the aforementioned compulsion.