Merging reality and the ideal through consumption.

• Main Author: Siti Nursyafiqa Rahman.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/38622
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Consumerism is undeniably a large part of post-modern society due to the notion that identity is very much determined by the objects that one possesses. Using Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero and Don Delillo’s White Noise, this paper attempts to deconstruct this identity-object relationship in orde...