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This paper aims to deal with the characteristics of postmodern society and postmodern ecology through DeLillo"s novel, Underworld. Underworld shows us this contemporary society very well, especially in capitalism and consumerism. And contemporary society has also developed lots kinds of technologies...

This paper aims to deal with the characteristics of postmodern society and postmodern ecology through DeLillo"s novel, Underworld. Underworld shows us this contemporary society very well, especially in capitalism and consumerism. And contemporary society has also developed lots kinds of technologies in every parts, including artificial weapons and Internet. This kind of development in our society has some positive effects and negative effects together. But DeLillo might show us the negative effects of our social development more cynically. That is why he is talking about lots of wastes and byproducts of contemporary society in his novels. First of all, Underworld shows us the problem of our contemporary society including capitalism and consumerism. Capitalism makes the people think everything as capitals and material. In addition, contemporary people confirms their identity by consuming products and showing their owns. That is why people go and buy lots of products even though they don"t really need them. Secondly, Underworld shows us the problem of the wastes that are produced by general lives and nuclear technology. This waste threatens our people and nature. DeLillo tells us that everything is changed into waste eventually, and this waste threatens human life inversely. Also he tells that Internet is a kind of waste too. Because everything is connected and mixed in the Internet. There are virus, germs and every kinds of gossips in the Internet. Even though this is a simulacrum, people think that this is a real world. People would trust this world more than the real world. Postmodern ecology sees the human as one of the nature, so people should live with nature in this earth together. But as we see in Underworld, people have not shared this earth with nature. People have monopolized and destroyed the earth for his own purpose. And now people are attacked by this behavior. Postmodern ecology is different from the modem ecology. In modem ecology human is the center and power, so he can take care of the nature. But in postmodern ecology human is a part of the nature and cannot take care of the nature. DeLillo shows us "everything is connected" and nature and human are connected, so we need to think about the "underworld" of our technology and over-consumption. This underworld is important as much as the upper-world, because "we are all connected" finally as like Internet. But Internet is not a real connection. It is a simulacrum and a waste. Underworld shows us our contemporary society and its problem very negatively. But there is always a hope. He shows us that as the word "peace". And this real peace is not in the nuclear weapon or Internet. The real peace is in the real world and real nature.

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