The confused future.pptVIP

The confused future ——the view of The Graduate Background At that time, the society was floated with danger from all the aspects of life. The post-war generation was born with a gap of generation against their parents. They tune the performance of the society and the performance of the crazy social discontent. Hippies, sexual liberation, drugs, violence, filled with the black period. The same can be said for the decade of the 1960s. America lost its innocence the day Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. For the next five years, the country went through a spiral of events that led to the sexual revolution of the late 1960s. And The Graduate separates the white picket fences of the 50s and early 60s from the Rock and Roll and drugs of the late 1960s and early 70s. 垮掉的一代 the beat generation They are lost and confused, stuck on the bridge of life, two crossing into adulthood, and one into old age. And thats just one way to look at it. Plots Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock is the epitome of the confused and isolated young adult male. He is at this crossroads in his life. He represents the fall and eventual metamorphosis of the American dream. Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his fathers business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her teenage daughter, Elaine. Introduction In fact, Benjamin has no convictions, no politics, no ambitions, no ideas, no friends, no professional interests, and, apart from sex and romance, no nonprofessional interests of any kind. He doesnt take pot or acid, his exemption from fighting in Vietnam is assumed rather than spelled out, and apart from the conspicuous affluence of his background, his remoteness from the world around him, Berkeley included, is defined iconographically rather than ideologically: its a movie-star pose. Benjamin decides to stay submerged and avoid reality. This theme of submersion