Week 8 Blog – Caitlin
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For my second paper I plan on forming an economic profile for Auric Goldfinger. I will primarily focus on Goldfinger as a personification of physical gold and how he uses, is, acts like and perceives gold to show human emotion that comes with gold. Power and power struggle will factor into my paper a great deal, Bond, Pussy Galor, and Oddjob will all factor into that broad idea in order to bring the focus down onto smaller areas of struggle rather than trying to explain the various ins and outs of the general “Power Struggle”. Fear will also have its place, fear of destitution, social inadequacies and control. I plan on using Marx’s “The German Ideology” as a scope through which to analyze this topic. I think it will be the most fruitful, though honestly I think I’ll have to read through Marx and Smith again before I can gain a clear idea on exactly which direction I want to go in.
It will be important in this paper to address public opinion of gold through the eyes of the author and how he uses his villain to cast a certain light on gold vs. governmental bonds. Turning an inanimate object that most people consider harmless if valuable into a murdering criminal mastermind definitely has motives behind it that need to be explored.
I think that focusing on Goldfinger as being a personification of gold is a great idea for your paper. It is no doubt a very interesting and compelling way to look at his character. Looking at Goldfinger this way will give you a great answer to the question of why Goldfinger exists and what he says about gold and its role in the economy.
You have a great train of thought here. It sounds very interesting, can’t wait to here more about Goldfinger and how you will set out his economic profile. This gives the total purpose of why he is a character in Down and Out of the Magic Kingdom and the position he takes in society by having and producing gold.
Goldfinger as a personification of gold is very interesting, especially because he has such an obsession with gold and money. I like the connection to analyzing what the author thinks of gold vs. governmental bonds, but you might also want to be wary of covering too much material?