Concept of Morality and Dignity in “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning”

Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Portrays perception of morality and dignity the narrative of Alan Sillitoe is an exponent of the English working literature, also seems indisputable that Sillitoe was one of the leading representatives of the movement of the Angry Young British. However, on one occasion he spoke about Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) "It is very inaccurate to say that this book is a novel of the working class. It's just a novel". In their daily struggle, Arthur Seaton, young protagonist of this novel fun working (just a great novel) - "What people think or say that I am, that's what I'm not, because they know a little about me".

Arthur's life takes place in Nottingham after the war. Cunning has survived its passage through the army and works, like his father, in the bicycle factory in the city, which employs thousands of people. The novel and life begin on a Saturday. One of the fifty-two holidays in the Great Wheel of the year that rotates so slowly. This evening is well worth the monotony and drudgery weekly, but a refueling runs seven gins and eleven pints of beer and fell down the stairs in the pub.

The reader has no choice but to yield to the power of sympathy the story generates. Seaton is satisfied, the thousands of pieces departing weekly from his lathe in the factory guarantee subsistence: cigarettes, clothes and beer. Mondays are the worst days; moody beats him to the yoke back to hover over him. Arriving on Wednesday, feels tamed like a greyhound. On Friday ... on Friday, there is nothing that can appear of euphoria, or even having left his mistress, Brenda, the wife of one of his companions in the factory. Between outbursts of indignation and pints of beer, Arthur has strange reflections of lucidity. His fight against the established order is thoughtless and disorganized, but it is known cog in a wheel that cannot control. We have believed that we have dominated their insurance policies and their TVs. Though his life simply continues along the path marked, makes reliable reports of recent social movements that swarm around here, when it comes voting rubbish give me, I have often wanted to tell them where they can get, because good for nothing (Gindin, 1962, p.62).

In the story, the fire of youth has been a recurring theme throughout the history of literature, not only in its formative aspect (the passage from adolescence to adulthood), but through the most innocent and impetuous side of the years young people. Saturday night and Sunday morning are the indomitable spirit of adolescence; although the geographical and temporal setting makes the heart of the book goes a step further. Alan Sillitoe tells the adventures of a young man, Arthur Seaton, an employee of a bicycle factory, which is dedicated to enjoying life on their days off during the weekend. On the one hand, maintains a relationship with a ...