A Separate Peace: Analysis of Marxism A Separate Peace is an impeccable paradigm of critical mythology interpreted by philosophers such as Marx, Engels and Hegel. The philosophy of Marxism serves as the basis for socialism and communism and is explicitly demonstrated through power, understanding human nature, and alienation. Finny demonstrates authority and control over a lonely and alienated friend, Gene, however, together they discover friendship through the individuality each other possesses. Finny and Gene agonize with these important responsibilities and strive to discover an inner peace within themselves as they evolve into young adults who awaken to the realities of life. Their entity follows the social formation of their life, "men enter into certain indispensable relationships dependent on their will, production relationships... of development of their material productive forces". (Tucker, 1978, pg.4) Therefore, through growth into maturity, the two young men exemplify the challenges of manhood. Power is an extremely dominant element that illustrates the authority and control between the two young men Finny and Gene. Throughout society, "social power, that is, multiplied productive force, which arises through the cooperation of different individuals, since their cooperation is not voluntary but occurred naturally, not as a unitary power" (Tucker). , page 161) Finny behaves like an authority figure and an individualist with distinct and domineering characteristics. It highlights his power as a perfect individual who doesn't care what others conceive... middle of the card... demonstrates his advantage in taking control over any individual without sincere emotions of any kind. However, the companionship developed through human nature, although agonizing, formed a special bond between the two boys. Gene, however, struggles with feelings of alienation and self-estrangement generated indirectly by Finny. The two young people persevere in these responsibilities to initiate a sense of inner peace that transpires from adolescence to adulthood. Their experience turns out to be a symmetrical result of manhood. Works Cited Knowles, John. (1959) A Separate Peace London: Secker & Warburg LimitedTucker, Robert. (1978) The Marx-Engles Reader (2nd ed.) New York: W.W. Norton & CompanyMicrosoft Encarta Encyclopedia 99. 1998 Microsoft Corporation