Later chapters of the novel are dominated by the fact that Joe constantly analyses and reanalyses events, reiterating the suggestion of obsession. ... Or at least from that point as I later construed it." ... The letter isn't placed in any context, it's left uninterrupted by Joe and is not referred to until later within chapter twelve, allowing the reader to reassess the character of Jed Parry and draw their own conclusions and therefore showing the more objective side to Joe again. This section of narrative is more successful than Joe's attempt to portray Clarissa's per...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

David punter describes the political relationship of the Augustan thinker to the literary world, " It is tempting to see in Augustanism the doctrine of a small cultural elite holding on to power and status under increasing pressure, and that pressure as precisely that exerted by the new reading public on the homogeneity of the old literary establishment (p 31 Punter). ... During the late eighteenth-century, several different kinds of new fiction arose to challenge the Augustan tradition; leading the way was the Gothic novel. ... The differentiation between the mind and self was a relevant topi...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

David punter describes the political relationship of the Augustan thinker to the literary world, " It is tempting to see in Augustanism the doctrine of a small cultural elite holding on to power and status under increasing pressure, and that pressure as precisely that exerted by the new reading public on the homogeneity of the old literary establishment (p 31 Punter). ... During the late eighteenth-century, several different kinds of new fiction arose to challenge the Augustan tradition; leading the way was the Gothic novel. ... The differentiation between the mind and self was a relevant topi...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The narrator goes on to make more assumptions later on such as how blind men didn't smoke because "as speculation had it, they couldn't see the smoke the exhaled" (Norton36). ... While reading this final paragraph of this story I actually got goose bumps I was so intrigued and moved. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For Hamlet this is not helped by the sudden, unexplainable death of his father which he later learns was due to the action of his uncle and now king and stepfather, Claudius and his quick marriage to his mother Gertrude. ... He is a character that is so difficult to pinpoint down, that he almost becomes a "mystery" and due to this the reader is able to make their own personal reading of him. ...

• Word Count: 1574
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The use of "may"" rather than "could"" suggests a current opinion: a thought in the present, and when placed in the context of Jane's description of past events, it gives the reader a sense that the events are happening now, as he is reading. ... An original, intended reader in the late 1840's would have seen Jane Eyre as an autobiography, so the presentation of Jane as a 'real live' person, telling her story in the wider context of a present, ongoing life, would have been stronger. ... There remains, however, some tension and uncertainty in parts of the novel, as to whethe...

• Word Count: 2174
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate