Adopting Post-Apocalyptic Literature in Modern American Fiction: A Critical Analysis of Stephen King’s The Stand

Abstract

Society is built on human harmonization among one another and with the nature around them. Therefore, any kind of flaw made by the members of the society can affect not only society but also the entire world. Many writers have adapted such kinds of flaws in their writings depending on the post-apocalyptic genre which is the narration of stories that start after the end of the world on earth to discuss its effects on the human’s ways of living. Those writers further depend on human’s innate instinct to survive in order to explore the possibilities of surviving in a world alien to the one they used to live in