Lesson Plan
Philippine Normal University
National Center for Teacher Education
College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature
Department of English
S-ENG 19
American Literature
Term Paper
THE COUP
John Updike
Perolina, Sharri Anne Loraine Q.
III-10 BSE English
Prof. Marla C. Papango
the marxist approach in defining the essence of Freedom as depicted in the novel "the Coup by John Updike
How will a man rule a country that was forsaken and neglected of all the riches and resources? How will he deal with his aims to reconcile with the ideals of good governance by implementing the ideals of Anti-Imperialism and seek out the essence of freedom? John Updike revealed a definition of the “coup” in a revolutionary in which he satirizes the political view of the African and Euro-Americans: to depose the standing government and replace it with another body, civil or military is the definition of the Coup. But the other side of the coup which struggle between isolation and freedom portrayed by Hakim Felix Ellellou comes with the twist on giving different meaning of the “coup.” From making a sudden stroke to outwit the antagonists, which he named as the Americans, Updike shadows the Islamic Marxism inspired by Karl Marx to illustrate the political society of a drought-driven land of Kush. The irony in a political society of one’s nation can or may be conjured up by seeking the existence of freedom, but by any means it all ends up with the bondage of our own ideals and prejudice. “A surrealist mixture of the real and the imagined, the logical and the absurd, The Coup is Updike 's imaginative recreation of an Africa of the mind as well as a commentary on American technological rationalism and materialistic values—a theme that informs many Updike novels. “ (Lathop K., 1985) it gives us an idea on what are the important views of a nation that is totally different from each other -- the black and the white, the rich and the neglected, and the superior and the
National Center for Teacher Education
College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature
Department of English
S-ENG 19
American Literature
Term Paper
THE COUP
John Updike
Perolina, Sharri Anne Loraine Q.
III-10 BSE English
Prof. Marla C. Papango
the marxist approach in defining the essence of Freedom as depicted in the novel "the Coup by John Updike
How will a man rule a country that was forsaken and neglected of all the riches and resources? How will he deal with his aims to reconcile with the ideals of good governance by implementing the ideals of Anti-Imperialism and seek out the essence of freedom? John Updike revealed a definition of the “coup” in a revolutionary in which he satirizes the political view of the African and Euro-Americans: to depose the standing government and replace it with another body, civil or military is the definition of the Coup. But the other side of the coup which struggle between isolation and freedom portrayed by Hakim Felix Ellellou comes with the twist on giving different meaning of the “coup.” From making a sudden stroke to outwit the antagonists, which he named as the Americans, Updike shadows the Islamic Marxism inspired by Karl Marx to illustrate the political society of a drought-driven land of Kush. The irony in a political society of one’s nation can or may be conjured up by seeking the existence of freedom, but by any means it all ends up with the bondage of our own ideals and prejudice. “A surrealist mixture of the real and the imagined, the logical and the absurd, The Coup is Updike 's imaginative recreation of an Africa of the mind as well as a commentary on American technological rationalism and materialistic values—a theme that informs many Updike novels. “ (Lathop K., 1985) it gives us an idea on what are the important views of a nation that is totally different from each other -- the black and the white, the rich and the neglected, and the superior and the
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