(Lethbridge Undergraduate Research Journal, 2007-01) Hunter, Eve M.
According to Jonathon Penny, there are three modes by which we may
identify apocalyptic literature: these modes are prophecy, revelation, and
eschatology. Of these three, prophecy is the most important element to
consider because it is the element most readily identified with that which is
sacred. By examining prophecy and its various functions in Aldous Huxley's
Time Must Have a Stop, William Golding's Darkness Visible, and Don DeLillo's
White Noise we are better able to comprehend how prophetic presences within
the latter novels affect reader perception and therefore affect the way in which
we perceive and therefore receive modern apocalyptic literature.