Get The Naked and the Dead from Amazon.com

The Naked and the Dead Summary
Norman Mailer

Everything you need to understand or teach The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer.

The Naked and the Dead Summary & Study Guide
1 Student Essay
4 Literature Criticisms
...and more

30 The Naked and the Dead Lessons
20 Activities
180 Multiple Choice Questions
60 Short Essay Questions
20 Essay Questions
Pre-Made Tests and Quizzes
...and more

The Naked and the Dead Summary

Published in 1948, The Naked and the Dead earned overwhelming popular and critical acclaim. Most reviewers deemed the novel to be one of the best war stories ever written, praising Mailer's realistic depiction of men at war. The novel focuses on the adventures of a fourteen-man infantry platoon stationed on a Japanese-held island in the South Pacific during World War II In the course of the novel, the men struggle to survive and find...

(read more from the Study Guide)

Study Pack

The The Naked and the Dead Study Pack contains:

The Naked and the Dead Study Guide

Free Quiz

Characters

Social Concerns

Techniques

Thematic Overview

Themes

Style

Criticism

Adaptations

Topics for Further Study

Norman Mailer Biographies (9)

Norman Kingsley Mailer

1,164 words, approx. 4 pages

Norman Kingsley Mailer (born 1923), American author, film producer and director, wrote one of the most noteworthy American novels about World War II. Only in his later political journalism did he reac... Read more

Norman Kingsley Mailer

14,145 words, approx. 48 pages

Biography EssayNorman Mailer's achievement lies primarily in his treatment of the conflict between man's search for self-actualization and the strictures society places upon him. Mailer has rendered t... Read more

Norman Mailer

3,481 words, approx. 12 pages

Since the publication of his first novel, The Naked and the Dead, catapulted Norman Mailer to sudden fame in the late 1940s, he has been alternately praised and criticized due to his outspoken opinion... Read more

Norman Mailer

9,101 words, approx. 31 pages

Norman Mailer's achievement lies primarily in his treatment of the conflict between man's search for self-actualization and the strictures society places upon him. Mailer has rendered this theme with ... Read more

Norman Mailer

5,699 words, approx. 19 pages

In various newspaper columns, essays, interviews, and novels from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, Norman Mailer has brooded over the psychological and cultural implications of what he has termed the ... Read more

Norman Mailer

7,595 words, approx. 26 pages

Norman Mailer has labored for most of his literary career to repudiate what he himself describes as "the one personality he found absolutely insupportable--the nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn. Something... Read more

Norman Mailer

10,836 words, approx. 37 pages

After almost fifty years as a literary celebrity and a prolific writer of both fiction and nonfiction, Norman Mailer still defies critics and scholars to define his niche as a writer. Some interpreter... Read more

Norman Mailer

9,220 words, approx. 31 pages

Since his first novel, The Naked and the Dead, was published in 1948, Norman Mailer has written some forty books, including novels, essays, political journalism, poetry, drama, and screenplays. Refer... Read more

Norman Mailer

18,011 words, approx. 61 pages

[This entry was updated by J. Michael Lennon (Wilkes University) from his update in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, pp. 162-183, of the entries by Philip H. Bufithis (... Read more

Essays & Analysis (5)

Critical Essay by Laura Adams

1,439 words, approx. 5 pages

Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Alter

330 words, approx. 2 pages

Read more

Critical Essay by Philip H. Bufithis

3,451 words, approx. 12 pages

Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Merrill

7,451 words, approx. 25 pages

657 words, approx. 3 pages

Keith Fuller 2307-027 Mr. Sanborn 4-15-03 Often times, when I think about war, I only think about the protagonist going against the antagonist. I think that the only thing worth worrying about... Read more

Download the Study Pack