Tiger’s, Lady’s, and Bird’s do Compare Short stories may seem like simple pieces of literature, but, in reality, they consist of impactful novel-like elements. The two famous short stories, “The Lady or the Tiger” and “The Scarlet Ibis”, are individual stories that share literary elements. Both of these pieces maintain closely related conflicts, differing settings, but the authors do a great job at describing their settings, and the mood of each piece can be understood in numerous ways. Ultimately, a reader knows conflict is what makes any story have meaning or charisma. In “The Scarlet Ibis”, a man versus self-conflict, the protagonist’s issues with pride, can be immediately recognized.
Dale Disney Professor Pucciarelli English Composition: Section 64 21 September 2011 FICTION OR DESCRIPTION There are various techniques to write and share stories. Which technique is best to use seems to be subjective. In both Joan Didion’s essay “On Keeping a Notebook” and Patricia Hampl’s essay “The Dark Art of Description” illustrates this fact clearly. While Joan Didion uses rhetorical questions, personal anecdotes, and imaginary facts to record her life experiences, Patricia Hampl uses imagery and vignettes in her writings, but based on the fact that Patricia Hampl uses less falsehoods in her stories, her style of writing is more appealing to the reader. Joan Didion uses rhetorical questions in her notebook to engage readers into the story of her notebook writings.
Through the bewitching stories we see that Barth is exploring an entirely new style of writing, sometimes confusing, sometimes fragmented, but always captivating. The Literature of Exhaustion is said to be a contradicting document due to the fact that it comes from a novelist, however John Barth has made it his responsibility to change the face of literary art, and the movement known as postmodernism. In his essays he discusses the importance of a flexible literature a genre that can be continually reinvented with out changing grammar or words. He attempts to do this in the form of novels, such as The Sot-Weed Factor, and novellas collectively known as Chimera, and a collection of short stories, Lost in the Funhouse. The collection of short stories is a great example of his idea of Postmodernity.
What is the theme in the short story A&P? The theme is “Sammy’ Desire to get out of his dull life. “In Literary fiction the theme is sometimes difficult to determine. However, in A&P the theme is supported throughout the story through symbolism, Plot and structure, and characterization. The theme “Sammy’s Desire to get out of his dull life” is expressed through many examples of symbolism.
The success of a novel greatly depends on the characters and the story of the novel. For a reader to be captivated or engrossed in a novel, major and minor characters should have different involvements and a contrast of personalities that makes them unique, which brings out the major characters into the spotlight. It is important to have minor characters with distinctive and contradicting personalities which explore different traits like betrayal, loyalty and corruption through major characters as this affects the reader’s opinion about the major characters. Minor characters fill brief parts in the story, they make the major characters more meaningful and put them in the spotlight, they influence the story and the characters’ choices and they set a mood in the story through their own eccentricity that they only have, thus they are equally important. Minor characters are comparatively important to major characters as they make the major characters more concise and meaningful.
Many critical disputes about Nabokov’s most controversial novel Lolita deal with the problem of literary genre. The question of whether it is poetry or pornography, a psychological novel or a crime novel, a love story or a confession, cannot have a definite answer because Lolita comprises all these genres in one. The basic generic frame of the novel is certainly prose. Lolita begins with a poetic prose part, which is short and very effective: “LOLITA, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.
Explain, illustrate and compare the ways in which the two novels do this, and their purposes in doing so. (Note: you may need to specify particular types and conventions of romantic fiction which are relevant to each novel. Any quoted passages you use should not be included in the word-count.)) 2. Wuthering Heights and Madame Bovary both gain much of their power as novels from the ways in which they use setting to frame the action, create atmosphere and convey meanings.
Many consider Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” to be a precursor to the modernist tradition in literature. Although not completely modernist in its approach, the text introduces certain new aspects in response to the realist tradition. The Novella uses the adventure story narrative, impressionism, linguistic ambiguity, delayed decoding, imperialistic discourse etc. in its narrative. Conrad’s use of the frame narrative provides multiple perspectives to the text.
A short look into the importance of the descriptive setting as well as tone and also, irony can be found when both of these stories are compared and contrasted. His overall view of the transcendental period author can be found within these publications. The short story publication by Hawthorne, titled The Ambitious Guest, is told through the third person narrative. This point of view allows more leeway for the author to use the “pseudo third person, focusing not on several characters, but one…”(Muller & Williams 41). Hawthorne will use this technique in Rappaccini’s Daughter.
María Constanza Fáez Blanco Professor Michael Wilson The XIXth Century Novel - LET1747 24 June 2013 Treatment of Time in The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray can be analyzed from various points of view, being the aesthetic and moral aspects of it the favorite ones for literary criticism. However, these aspects rely to a considerable extent on Wilde's narrative techniques, even the subtlest ones. Among these, it is hard not to notice the peculiar and variable treatment of time in the novel and leads us to wonder: how does it contribute to the story itself? To answer this question, this paper will thoroughly analyze Wilde's treatment of time throughout the novel and study its vital contribution to the plot and the development of the character of Dorian Gray. Firstly, "treatment of time" should be referred to as "narrative speed", which according to Prince, is "the relationship between the duration of the narrated --- the (approximate) time the events recounted go on or are thought to go on --- and the length of the narrative (in words, lines, or pages, for instance)" (qtd.