It is under this art of Conrad's that the reader is made to judge and contemplate the unknown. ... This quotation serves as a perfect metaphor in demonstrating that there is no real incentive one can acquire from exploration because as the noun "bone" symbolizes, it only ends up in aggregated murder on a mass scale. ...
They seem to have almost perfect characteristics and are never poor. ... His three themes were once described as, Forster's belief in individualism and the sanctity of personal relationships, his scan for conventionality and religion, his passion for truth and friendship, his unaffected love for art, and his intellectual romanticism. ...
An interest in those things, which cannot be understood, for example religion and the soul, results in an overwhelming expansion of what is accepted as art in the literary world. ... Characteristics of the Gothic novel are: an emphasis on portraying the terrifying, insistence on archaic settings, a very prominent use of supernatural forces, the presence of highly stereotypical characters and an attempt to perfect the technique of literary suspense. ...
In formal prose the simile is a device both of art and explanation, comparing the unfamiliar thing (to be explained) to some familiar thing (an object, event, process, etc.) known to the reader. ... A perfect rhyme is one in which the two sounds correspond exactly ("by hook or by crook"). ...
