The Vegetarian by Han Kang (Book Analysis)
The Vegetarian by Han Kang (Book Analysis)
Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Vegetarian by Han Kang. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including the harm humanity inflicts on animals, men’s treatment of women and mental illness. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 50-page reading guide is structured as follows:
- Biography of Han Kang
- Presentation of The Vegetarian
- Summary of The Vegetarian
- Character study
- Yeong-hye
- Mr Cheong
- In-hye’s husband
- In-hye
- Analysis of The Vegetarian
- The violence of humanity
- Points of perspective
- Physicality and a vegetative state
About The Vegetarian
As its title suggests, The Vegetarian is about one woman’s decision to stop eating meat. However, this simple description belies the novella’s power and complexity: Yeong-Hye’s decision provokes violent reactions from those around her, who seem incapable of accepting her as a person in her own right, and starkly demonstrates the brutality that humans are capable of inflicting as they pursue their own ends. Like much of Han Kang’s work, The Vegetarian examines the consequences of human actions as it explores the motives behind its characters’ behavior and seeks to demonstrate both the empathy and the brutality that humans are capable of.
About Han Kang
Han Kang is a South Korean author who shot to fame in the English-speaking world when the translation of her novella The Vegetarian was published in 2015. She studied literature at Yonsei University and first saw her work published in a quarterly called Literature and Society. She now teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Kim Yu-jeong Literary Award and the Man Booker International Prize, among others. Her best-known works include The Vegetarian and Human Acts.
Product details
ISBN | 9782808018654 |
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Publisher | Plurilingua Publishing |
Collection | Brightsummaries.com |
Format | |
Pages | 50 |
File size | 2.1 MB |