Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature Works grade: 74 University of Warwick language: English abstract: This essay aims to address the dichotomy faced by the 'creator' in the European novel - a collision between the fundamental desire to strive for immortality by projecting a shadow of oneself through time or to adopt a hedonistic disregard for convention born from a failure (or unwillingness) to achieve the aforementioned compulsion.