Naked Lunch

Discuss the following quote: “Doctor Benway is ultimately an anarchist rather than a control addict.”

To what extent does the narrative structure of Naked Lunch reflect a drug user’s dislocation from time?

Is experimentation always necessarily bad? Explore this question in connection with both the medical and personal experiments in the novel.

What, for Lee, is the main problem with bureaucracy?

Does Naked Lunch celebrate or criticize pornography? Reference excerpts from Chapters 9 and 11 in your response.

What, for Lee, is the true “price” of heroin addiction?

To what extent do you consider Naked Lunch a critique of homophobic attitudes in 1950s America?

The novel inextricably connects sex and death. Discuss this connection and its association with the motif of hanging.