You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in your subtle spine, in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs- the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limb, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate- the little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power. (Nabokov
Rarely was that world projected as full of anger at racism, struggles for justice, or revolutions of the body and spirit. It's better to be cute than political, individual than collective-minded, and you should pray to be compared with Like Water for Chocolate. Now come the new books by Julia Alvarez and Demetria Martinez, both with radical themes that include criticism of U.S. policy and Anglo values. They have had flattering reviews, but profound political or social questions raised in each book go ignored: most critics seem happier with the romancing. Julia Alvarez's book is a fictionalized biography that moves its characters forward in the shadow of impending doom, yet never victimizes, never negates human complexity.
Wilde: Flaunting Societal Flaws with Literary Device The Importance of Being Earnest is a product of the “sober and dutiful earnestness” that (Tosh 12) commanded the times coupled with the author's palpable disdain for the same. Like his main characters Jack/Ernest Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, Oscar Wilde relies heavily on a purposeful duality; as an effective mechanism of humor, he stands the societal mores of the day on end, while the subtext beneath the comedy, fluff and wit, fingers the despicable hypocrisy of Victorian Society that ultimately brought Wilde to personal ruin (Grill 7). Wilde's writing reflects his own philosophies, namely his devotion to art above truth, and his highly prized individualism (Gale 1201). He himself has described The Importance of Being Earnest as "about characters who trivialize serious matters and solemnize trivial matters,” the very epitome of Victorian manners (Mitchell 262). Along this vein, Wilde calls on an arsenal of literary devices with which he reproaches a puerile Victorian society for holding ideals absent of sincerity, it's use of marriage as the currency of social status, and for maintaining the class divide.
in which a plot twist at the end of the story completely changes the story's meaning. Opinion: I found no negatives critisism this is his greatest work after all Weakness: none Strength: same as the opinion Value to researh: contains about his greatest work Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant[1] (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer, Many of the stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s and several describe the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught in the conflict, emerge changed. V: it has the basic information about the author Guy de Maupassant French author of the naturalistic school who is generally considered the greatest French short story writer. Maupassant tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat and was committed to the celebrated private asylum of Dr. Esprit Blanche at Passy, in Paris, where he died on July 6, 1893. V: contains information about his death str: it has all the poetry he wrote, wk: the font is too small Guy de Maupassant Laure sent her son to make Flaubert’s acquaintance at Croisset in 1867, and when he
By presenting Claudius as the unfaithful serpent, it gives readers the connotation that he is evil, betraying and loathsome, correlating to the ghost’s and Hamlet’s feelings. Moreover, the serpent pattern of imagery is weaved in the ghost’s description of the poison- “swift as quicksilver it courses
Heathcliff Character Analysis Heathcliff and His Reputation Forget most of the romantic nonsense you have heard about Heathcliff. Sure he's in love with Catherine, and you can't question his loyalty, but he has a serious mean streak. Brontë is at her best when she is describing him, and his looks garner a lot of attention from her and the other characters. Numerous polls have voted him literature's most romantic hero, which says a lot about the kind of men we like – tortured, brooding, and obsessive. Heathcliff is the embodiment of what is known by literary types as the Byronic hero – a dark, outsider antihero (kind of like Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyre or Edward Cullen fromTwilight).
Considered a master of the short story, writing 54 of them, he wrote slowly but was successful in his writing endeavors. He had a movie made out of his book “The Natural” and won the Pulitzer Prize for his book “The Fixer”. He grew up during the great depression and his writing was very influenced by that. Bernard was born to Max and Bertha Malamud, Russian Jewish Immigrants, in Brooklyn, New York 1914. He got his Bachelors of the Arts from City College of New York.
(See Shamela, in particular, for Fielding’s attack upon the limitations of the epistolary) - Anybody writing epistolary fiction in the latter eighteenth century was arguably in the shadow of the form’s greatest practitioner, Richardson - These problems in Evelina: see, for instance, Volume I, Letter XV (Mr. Villars to Evelina): “I cannot too much thank you, my best Evelina, for the minuteness of your communications; continue to me this indulgence, for I should be miserable if in ignorance of your proceedings”:[2] Burney is forced to manufacture a reason why Evelina should write so many letters! - Volume III, Letter XXIII (Evelina to Rev. Mr. Villars): Surely Villars would be at the wedding in the normal run of events? Burney has to plot events so that he is not there – in order that Evelina can
Conventions of tragedy – The Tragic Hero Gatsby has many flaws, some which are bigger and more obvious than others. However, we can see clearly that his biggest flaw could possibly be his affection for Daisy, who causes him to become known as a "tragic hero". She is the one thing that stands between Gatsby and his idea of "perfection," as she is the only unrealistic dream that he chases and does not obtain. By the end of the play he dies as a result of his obsession with having Daisy, which is symbolic of her devastating impact on his
The portrait, however, absorbs all the signs of aging, vices and misdeeds of which stain overnight. The portrait symbolizes immortality, while the beauty of Dorian and his apparent innocence are symbol of bourgeois hypocrisy who tended to hide all the facets of being. At the end of the novel Dorian stabs the portrait with a knife, killing himself, because he couldn't stand more of what had become, and the picture magically returns to its original purity and beauty. Four years later Oscar Wilde would explore the same theme in “The Picture of Dorian Gray”: Like Stevenson, Wilde suffers from his time’s conditions. In his novel, we can find the expression of extreme Decadentism, centred on the theme of the double, typical of the psychological horror stories.