According to Freud, Oedipus complex is known to be a theory where males unconsciously hold negative feelings towards their fathers. ... Bret Easton Ellis's novel, Lunar Park, is a work of art that reveals the author's Oedipus complex. ... Eventually, Bret's father influences Bret's character. ... Freud stated that in self-defense of their Oedipus complex, children develop an influential conscience called the superego (Berger 272). ... Without control, Bret slowly adapts to his father's character. ...

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Thus such a move from telling to showing and specifically, from a long and complex novel to any form of performance is usually seen as the most fraught transposition. ... Conflicts and ideological differences between characters must be made visible and audible (Lodge, 1993:196-200). ... Characters placed in close suggests lack of statue. Another idea, which can be suggested by closeness, is discomfort, as with a character who invades the personal space of others. ... According to Gianetti, film language has the capacity to be even more complex than written language (Gianetti, 2005: 241). ...

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Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 is a very deep, complex, and demanding novel, requiring the wide breadth of knowledge. One of the most fascinating aspects of the novel is Pynchon's choice -- or rather, invention -- of the names he gives the characters and organizations described in the novel. ... On one level, this may be an insight into Oedipa's personality; perhaps Pynchon is trying to assert that she is a multi-layered character who cannot be fully exposed under any circumstances. ... There are always more layers to the complex plot, and Oedipa will find that each time ...

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Eco's Postscript is also a manifesto proclaiming the authority of serious historical fiction: the characters in a historical novel may not appear in encyclopedias, he notes, but everything they do could only occur in that time and place. Made-up events and characters tell us things "that history books have never told us so clearly," so as "to make history, what happened, more comprehensible"(p. 75). ... The popular success of Eco's novels is surprising because they all are complicated narratives, intellectually challenging, packed with arcane information, and complex in the street se...

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Cossette is placed in the novel as the stereotypical female character; she is typically the character who is looked down upon in feminist critique. ... Hugo gives his female character agency and the ability the make choices for herself. ... Fantine is a character that shows true diversity in the feminine character breaking the stereotypical passive role and taking full control over whatever destiny was left up to her. ... Eponine is used to portray another strong and proactive character within the novel. Eponine can arguably be considered one of the most complex characters in the novel going t...

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Its author Jane Austen is able to create a type of gothic parody that through out the novel is integrated into the characterization and able to show the realities of a young girl growing up in a complicated and complex adult society. ... This critic as well as many others suggests that the characters in the novel are underdeveloped. However, Jane Austen does show characters growing through out the book. ... Other characters are brought into the book to contrast each other and to show the reader the differences between characters, which in turn can represent the difference in people during t...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is because of this close relationship at the beginning that the breakdown is so upsetting for the reader as we come to know both these characters and identify with their relationship with one another. ... By using this style of narrative we are able to visualise what the character sees and how she sees it therefore it is very effective when analysing the relationships between women, however we must remember that because of this the perspective is warped and therefore you are not able to picture an unbalanced view of the opposing character, especially as Jane Eyre describes the characters so...

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This complex tale of corruption during Indira Gandhi's years in office returns once more to the Bombay Parsi community. ... Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will ...

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This complex tale of corruption during Indira Gandhi's years in office returns once more to the Bombay Parsi community. ... Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will ...

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My first impression of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café was that it was a "woman's- novel. This was because the movie, which was more popular than the book, was advertised as a "chick flick-. To say the least, I was wrong. The novel poses many issues that face the people of the 192...

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Contents Introduction 3 Comprehending The French Lieutenant's Woman 5 Conclusion 18 Bibliography 20 Introduction. Apofatum is the ungivenness of the novelistic hero, motivated by the interaction of independent mental functions in him. ëåàòeeà is the unexpected turn of events considerably changing a direction of development of a plot. Interacti...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate