The Master of Strappado"Négovan Rajic, like Orwell, is preoccupied with the dehumanization of modern society, the alienation of brother from brother and sister from sister. In each of these stories, the protagonist is deprived of his integrity, his will, is turned into an object of manipulation. In the end, however, we see that each of us is involved in the inhumanity of the society we have fashioned. Each of us is guilty of our own destiny. |
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