E.M Forster's widely admired novel "Howard's End," provides a detailed portrayal of life in Edwardian England; a series of characters exposed as if under a literary microscope. Froster focuses on the personal relationships and interactions between his primary characters who represent the dueling and contrasting factions of the English upper classes. ... The era is now associated with the birth of 'modernism'; a time of artistic and literary progression, as well as social and human transformation. ... There would be no trains, no ships to carry [...] literary people about...

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In order to compare the literary styles of Dickens and Hardy I will use 'The Signalman' by Charles Dickens and 'The Withering Arm' by Thomas Hardy. ... Whereas, Hardy better describes the appearance of the characters. ... Dickens uses dialogue to develop the relationship of the two characters, convey the characters' personalities and carry the plot forward. ... Dickens uses two main characters, the narrator and the signalman, and two very minor characters that were only created to conclude the story. ... Hardy also uses two main characters, Rhoda B...

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The method that the author uses to present the character, thus, is not as we might see it in the literature of Romanticism (character revealed in marginal situations!) ... By the definition it is "a speaker through whom an author presents a narrative; often, though not always, the narrator is a character in the work - and therefore subject to the same considerations as other characters. ... It is also almost impossible to draw a borderline where the author's ideas/images seen fuse with those of narrator's/character's; whether the author herself with her own experiences, views an...

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