ABSTRACT
Arnold Wesker's career, spanning more than a third of a century, is a study in contrasts. Many of Wesker's protagonists who seek to acquire standing and justice also search for the oneness of both self and time that the anchoress Christine yearns for in Caritas, most fail miserably in their attempt. One of Wesker's most insightful and sympathetic observers, Glenda Leeming, began her study of his work trying to identify Wesker's "voice" and argued correctly for the complicated interrelationship between the public and the private man. As an introduction to The Journalists, wesker describes that, the need provokes the individual's conflict with society as in the spectacle of the tamed "free-spirit" of bibliophile Shyloc. This need corrupts such necessary or serious human activities as government, love, revolution or journalism, he writes; in short, all aspects of human endeavor, including the search for oneness. Nonetheless, wesker's "oneness" search continues.
