The theme of existing in the presence in Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day

Abstract

Contemporary materialistic society has diminished the human being into a mere commodity. The world of business and technology has led human thoughts and feelings to the scientific rationalism. A common man’s relationship with his family, friends, and acquaintances is crippled. He does not live his life but merely exists in this world. This paper aims at analysing how the modern man is not living but existing with the seizures of the modern-day life in Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day.