Theme of Hunger of Materialism in Tolstoy’s How Much Does a Man Need?

Abstract

The research focuses on the theme of hunger of materialism in Tolstoy’s How Much Does a Man Need? The short story conveys the theme of hunger for materialism as seen how a man who a man who.is greedy with material things that he is always hungry, and he cannot satisfy his lust for it beyond limitation. Using the allusion, the researchers can learn how Tolstoy deploys the simple understanding of Bashkir, who are illiterate and seem underdeveloped people, they are much wiser than a Russian man like Pakhom. Using this technique, Tolstoy wants to say that happiness can be found ironically in the simplicity of life that does not need a lot of things that trigger the hunger of materialism that according to Christianity, he will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Keywords: Theme, hunger, allusion