Nihilism and Existential Anxiety in Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge

Abstract

              The research will study the nihilistic absurd in Thomas Pynchon’s novel.  Bleeding Edge (2013).Nihilism Existential Anxiety  in Pynchon’s novels take the form of man’s reaction to a world seemingly without meaning or man as a glove puppet controlled or menace by invisible outside forces. By implication in the attempt to attain the purported “American Dream” characters in the selected novel replaced values such as truth, morality, kindness, honesty, and compassion with illusion, gross consumerism ,as well as personal isolation.however, seems to suggest that perhaps the entire American Dream itself is really just an unattainable illusion. Therefore, the research seeks to ascertain if Pynchon’s work paints a world occupied by individuals attempting to comprehend and assert their identity within a social circle of progress and crisis. From the perspective of nihilism, moral beliefs are baseless as such; nihilism is the creation of modern society because it is difficult for the public to accept certain acts.