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An 8 page comparative essay on Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.' The writer argues that the subject of these sexually explicit books was the real quadrangle of sex—passion, politics, boredom and death. Although he viewed the works as conscious-raising efforts, he believed his attempts would be futile. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty . . . what you will" (Miller, "Cancer" 10). From these opening
words on, Miller continues to unabashedly defame the characters that he identifies as blind to the idea of "self." Miller seeks to remedy the situation in the Tropic of
Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer, but the jury is still out on the results. The persona writing these stories is already aware of this, but tries to remain
centered on the hope that the closed-minded will give up the struggle, surrendering to that which comes into life in the best manner possible, because if they do not, the
result is death. Miller points out the importance of death, and the ridiculousness of it. "Everybody around me was a failure, or if not a failure, ridiculous" (Miller,
"Capricorn" 9). This persona of disgust and hopelessness comes through as he writes about those topics that make up death, but Miller makes it clear that when the evils
walk in, we are inclined to remain observers. That Miller is an observer is clear in the opening of the Tropic of Capricorn. "I was indifferent: I could afford
to be good, kind, generous, loyal, and so forth, since I was free of envy.... On the contrary, I have only felt pity for everybody and everything" (Miller, "Capricorn"
10). But even the indifferent live impassioned lives, passion in the sense of sex as art and politics, as John Tytell described it (Hirsch 94-95). The political
vein that Miller writes in is that of bringing impassioned alternative ideas about sex to the minds of youth and the closed-minded in society. He, like others of his
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