Ballard’s Intent

            J.G Ballard’s Crash is a book full motif.  Its major one in my opinion is the use of the James Ballard sexuality and the integration of technology into his fantasies.  He is constantly using the automobile as a vessel for his sexuality and his fantasies.  J.G’s intent with this use of sex and cars seems to be that he is trying to describe how the world is becoming to close to their technology and how easy it can for sex and technology to combine.  In this way I think J.G is being satirical and making his statement towards society.  Ultimately I believe that this story is a tragedy, not in the classical sense but maybe in the way that although it is satirical it ends and begins in death and the character does not become necessarily better in the end.  He becomes more of the sexual addict that he is in the process of becoming whole book.  While this may make argument that he has “improved” in this way throughout the book it is a bad type of approval by our standards. In my opinion he and Vaughn are different people, while one could argue they are the same person in the vagueness of Ballard during the death scene of Vaughn, I don’t think that this was the purpose of J.G.  I think that Vaughn needed to be a different person completely in order to influence Ballard the way he did.