In today’s modern society, the amusement industry plays a critical function in people’s mundane life. From films to Broadway, music to telecasting, or even NASCAR to lawn mower racing, everyone has some signifier of amusement that grabs their attending. In instance of the hungriness creative person, he was seeking to put a record figure of years for fasting. However in the terminal, there was no good ground why he chose to make so, except that he didn’t find the nutrients he liked. The Hunger Artist’s endowment, in a manner, describes the overall actions of society as a whole, in the manner that it treats entertainers or famous persons.
When a individual first enters the amusement industry, or when person enters the public oculus in any manner form or signifier, the populace foremost has to take notice of this individual. Once this individual is know, the public somehow jointly decides whether to accept this individual for who they are and what they do, or ptyalize them out. In the Hunger Artist’s instance, from when this profession took topographic point, it was an instant hit. Everyone wanted to see it and wonder at the astonishing endowment. It is in human nature, to follow the current tendencies, to see what everyone else is seeing, and at this clip it was the hungriness creative person.
Modern civilization is the same manner, to an extent, seeing how rapidly new sets or film stars make a hit and they make 1000000s of dollars, and so they get smacked in the face. Society finally moves off from the current tendencies at the clip and is forced into a alteration of some sort. Whether or non certain entertainers will accept that society is traveling to alter with or with out them is the chief concern. Not in the hungriness artists life though, he was traveling to fast and that was that. His lone existent concern was the record figure of years fasting he wanted to interrupt, which he had set himself? “His populace pretended to look up to him so much, why should it hold so small forbearance with him; if he could digest fasting longer, why shouldn’t the public endure it?” I think this is a really of import statement in the reading and it truly makes a direct connection with todays modern society despite the time period difference. In todays society this statement might pertain to a music-recording artist.
Someone might write a hit album, make it big, and have millions of fans all over the place, wanting to see them, or buy their album. This would be a great financial income for that person, or a great living. Society would embrace their gift and then they might write a not so good album, and society would reject them. Does the artist continue or as we say, “try, try again”? In the Hunger Artist’s point of view, he would keep right on going because it makes him happy. The recording artist would try something else because the music isn’t making the same kind of money it used to, therefore he must lower his standard of living to compensate for societies rejection of his talent.
As for the hunger artist, money and standards of living do not play a role in is happiness; therefore he has only the societal pressures influencing his decisions. The hunger artist finished his fast under the Impresario, and was forced to move on in his ways. He then joined a circus that had enormous traffic, so once again more people could marvel at his talent. As many are doing so in our society, musicians are moving from the stage to the big screen or vise versa, because their luck ran out. This is yet another stage in that persons life, which will soon and once again end like it, did the first time. After the hunger artist joined the circus, he had many more days of the crowds marvelous gaze, but that too ran out. When he was found under the straw in his cage, he was asked if he was still fasting, and then soon died by the talent that he lived for. This too is representative of todays society because once an entertainer gets too old or loses their ability, they are cast out by society and are virtually dead in the eyes of their field until there death. At that point, they are quickly replaced by the next rising star, to enter the cycle. Society is a never-ending machine that as long as people live on this earth will control anything and everything that enters it.
