Essays on Human Stain

Derek Parker Royal’s article “Plotting the Frames of Subjectivity: Identity, Death, and Narrative” review of Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, focuses on the book’s protagonist, first person narrator, Nathan Zuckerman. Zuckerman’s identity as a writer of published works, American Pastoral and I Married a Communist is the site of inquiry in Royal’s commentary on Roth’s character development, by way of Zuckerman’s artistic process and textual production. Royal’s review looks at how Roth’s portrayal of Zuckerman also captures the complexity and oft compelling confusion of the protagonist as he attempts to introduce ...

Philip Roth's 2000 novel The Human Stain deals with many controversial and heated topics, such as racism, divorce, political controversy and sensationalism. The way in which the book's central character, Coleman Silk, is destroyed through seemingly harmless acts is a powerful statement on the nature of racial politics. This is made even more complex by the eventual reveal of Silk's true secret, placing his predicament in a wholly new light. The effects of these events affect both Silk and many other characters in the novel in dramatic ways. In this essay, the characters of Silk, narrator Nathan Zuckerman and Silk's secret ...

The Human Stain by Phillip Roth is a novel that depicts a series of disgraceful events and dissatisfactions in a manner that it makes a reader highly inquisitive to read the novel further with a larger intensity into it. Roth is a maestro of such works and rarely fails to surprise readers with an array of practical as well as imaginary metaphors. In the human stain, Roth has chosen the characters very smartly and depicted the incidents on a good plot. It is a novel that depicts sex, desires and several other hidden tendencies of human beings to deceive and how people exploit others. The story, ...