Plot in both novels is carefully constructed to give added emphasis to the theme. ... The growth of a character is crucial to the structure of a novel. Without character growth there is no expansion of the novel's plot. ... Both these novels are concerned with deeply developed characters. ... The plot structures of these novels are entirely dissimilar. ...
Yes, we do see Jane mature through the novel, but the fact that the whole story is being told by a narrator who speaks to us disrupts the progress of a pure Bildungsroman, by introducing the mature Jane early on in the novel, rather than only at the end, after the "struggle " has been overcome. ... Only at the very end of the novel are we given any definite indication of the timeframe the story. At the very beginning of the chapter entitled 'conclusion', Jane delivers what is perhaps the most famous line of the whole novel. ... "A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scen...
Secondly, the general characteristics of picaresque novel will be noted, since the novel is narrated by its anti-heroic protagonist "picaro". The picaro's character determines his use of language, and probably the style of the novel. ... The picaresque novel which is regarded as an early form of novel was born in 16th century Spain. ... Another crucial fact to mention about picaresque novel is its correspondence with the Spanish Inquisition in history. ... Due to these facts, it is not quite possible to consider this novel as a pure confession. ...
In "The Gender of Narration in Virginia Woolf's early novels-, one can find interesting lines that also would correspondent to my personal view of V. ... The Post-Impressionist movement which affected the contemporary painters with whom she was in contact also influenced her conception of the novel."" ... Her novels could be considered both as highly literate and psychological. ... Woolf's novel? ... In Woolf's novels "I- becomes both the character and narrator of the story, both subject and object by representing its woman writer."" ...
The sexual imagery attached to the description of the snake also highlights its place as a phallic symbol within the novel, "His abdominal muscularity, his loathsome, fluid motion, somehow made me sick." Jim's revolution towards the snake further accentuates how the idea of the male is treated within the novel, opening up a space for a lesbian narrative to be formed. ... Cather also perhaps expresses how her sexuality does not make her unequal to men or heterosexual relationships in this particular line in the novel. ... Perhaps this event can be taken as Cather's way of positi...
William Faulkner in his novel, Absalom, Absalom!... Faulkner uses a Southern family, the Sutpen's, to base the novel upon. ... The plot of this novel is summed up in the first two chapters, and is all about this one family and the events that happen to it. ... Faulkner used this way of narrating with multiple narrators in many of his critically acclaimed novels, such as Absalom Absalom!. ... Faulkner puts an interesting twist onto the end of the novel. ...
In William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride and the film by the same name, we can see how changing mediums, audiences and perspectives alter the lingual and visual techniques used, and the subsequent change in the form and effect of the story. ... In the novel, the "omission" of pages of information describing thoroughly irrelevant things mocks the extensive use of description and tangents in stories, but ironically this information in itself is omitted for the film. For the film, the story is removed from its context as an abridged novel to become a satirical story in its own right...
Virginia Woolf attaches great importance to this phenomenon in her novel Mrs. ... Being published in 1925, Virginia Woolf´s novel Mrs. Dalloway is an exemplar of "Modernist Literature" of which the literature is famous for turning the conventional novel format upside down, and experimenting with time and order, perspective, and point of view. ... So there is no objective reality in the novel, and the reader cannot say for sure that a character is like this or that, but he has to rely on the novel´s character´s impressions and on his sense of sympathy. ... In this manner the novelÂ...
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. ... Throughout the novel, the readers is gradually introduced to the intricate outer and inner tensions and trappings of society which are crowding in around the Schlegel family (idealistic, intellectual), and the Wilcox family (pragmatic, materialistic aspect). ... Their direct interactions form a prominent feature of the novel as a whole; as intelligent and articulate characters, through voice and focalizat...
On the island she discovers the labyrinthine life of her lover through the pages of his novel. ... This film starts slow and ordinary, just as the novel within. ... The narrative is convoluted as well as circular, and one is never completely sure whether what is seen is part of the storyline or merely a scene from Lorenzo's novel. ... He interestingly wrote the screenplay before he wrote the novel, ending up writing the final screenplay from the novel. ...
The techniques an author employs, and the way in which they are manipulated, often determine the reader's response towards a novel's themes. ... The entire novel, therefore, is written in first person point of view. ... The first part, narrated by Clegg, is written in first person point of view, which adds realism and immediacy to the novel. ... Through this structure of the novel, several symbolic meanings are presented. ... As Clegg's two narratives enclose Miranda's, the novel emphasizes the physical power Clegg has over her. ...
Also she is under the pressure of the promise to her master as she herself admits that she had already been carried away in London, in Harley street by her master who "prove the gentleman, a bachelor in a prime of life, such a figure as have never risen, saving a dream or in an old novel before a fluttered anxious girl out of Hampshire vicarage." ...
The story being analyzed, for narration, in this paper is author Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl". The simplest way to understand narration is to read a story and understand the way it was being told. This story, "Girl", is basically a set of instructions from a mother to her daughter. But, the way the inst...
In his book Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card uses a kind of evolutional narrative structure to present the main character Bean through his struggles of survival and development. His character is unfolded to the reader as the story advances through his adventures in life. Different aspects of his cha...
Herodotus' Histories are the first instance of a narrative history; His work adopts a form somewhere between the previous tradition of epic and the yet non-existent novel, which has led to the understanding of it as a work of creative style, perceived as almost synonymous with fiction. ...
