THE DIALECTICS OF MATERIAL WEALTH, FAME, AND SPIRITUAL EMPTINESS IN F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S THE GREAT GATSBY, ERKIN A’ZAM’S A WALK UNDER THE THUNDERSTORM, AND ULUGBEK HAMDAM’S BALANCE
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Material wealth, fame, spiritual emptiness, Fitzgerald, Erkin A’zam, Ulugbek Hamdam, American Dream, Uzbek prose, moral crisis, comparative literature.Abstract
This article analyzes the dialectics of material wealth, the pursuit of fame, and spiritual emptiness in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Erkin A’zam’s A Walk under the Thunderstorm (Momoqaldiroq ostida sayr), and Ulugbek Hamdam’s Balance (Muvozanat). The study focuses on how American and Uzbek prose represent the conflict between external success and inner dissatisfaction. In Fitzgerald’s novel, material wealth is closely connected with the corrupted American Dream, social prestige, class difference, and moral carelessness. In Erkin A’zam’s prose, the crisis of personality is interpreted through modern social pressure, irony, psychological instability, and the tension between external appearance and inner truth. In Ulugbek Hamdam’s Balance, the problem is presented as a philosophical search for harmony between material life and spiritual values. The article argues that all three works reveal a common literary-philosophical idea: when wealth, fame, and social recognition become higher than conscience, love, morality, and self-awareness, the individual experiences spiritual emptiness.
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