THE INTERNAL CONFLICT OF AMERICAN WRITERS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE NOVELS WITH REFERENCE TO UNDER THE VOLCANO

Abstract

The present study aimed to examine the Internal Conflict of American Writers in Writing Descriptive Novels with Reference to Under the Volcano .Under the Volcano a garden, with a snake, where Geoffrey keeps talking about Eden he proclaims that ownership of property was obviously the original sin. This is, of course, not the only theme of the complex book, but it is its core, holding together its social, religious, and literary vision. The fundamental problem of property takes many forms. For Geoffrey’s brother Hugh, it includes his greedily plagiarizing others’ songs as his own, even while stealing his publisher’s wife. For Geoffrey’s estranged wife Yvonne, it is memories of her lost material success as an actress, dragging her away from Geoffrey. For Geoffrey himself, it is his position as paid defender of British territories in the period when he had some complicity in German soldiers being burned alive. The different forms of guilt that the characters feel are variations of the way coveting or defending property divides people from one another. Lowry’s long fascination with the supernatural had brought him under the influence of the occultist Charles Stansfield Jones whom Lowry met in Canada. Based on Jones’s synthesis of various kinds of mysticism, including Jewish Kabbala, Lowry associated the divisive power of property with the metaphysical idea that, in the beginning, God’s divine energy entered vessels that broke, with the tragic consequence being the multiplicity of the material world where there should have been divine unity. More disturbingly, Laruelle had committed adultery with Yvonne, thereby undermining her marriage. Having lost his idealism, Laruelle, who once dreamed of improving the world through filmmaking, has declined into collecting Mexican “idols,” material substitutes for the divine.