She brings into the novel two types of reading, books and letters, and reading people. Catherine is not able to read people well she needs to learn this. ... She is inferring how people in society were taking ideas from the Gothic novels and turning them suspicious about the people around them, when the actuality was they had nothing to worry about. ... The characterization may be weak in some areas, but it does allow us to see the life of people two hundred years ago. ... At the beginning of the novel Catherine is very young and nave; however throughout the novel you can see her growing a...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Comprehending The French Lieutenant's Woman "I know three kinds of dialogue, - writes M.Buber, - original which can be expressed both in words, and in silence, - in this dialogue each of its participants really means another or others in their original life and addresses to them, aspiring that between him and them the alive mutual relation was established; technical, aroused only by necessity of objective mutual understanding, and, at last, the monologue disguised under dialogue in which two persons or more people in the strange twisting ways speak with themselves, believing thus,...

• Word Count: 2592
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Their success seems to have surprised Eco, who puzzled for "two years" after the publication of his first novel, "trying to figure out why the book was being read by people who surely could not like such 'cultivated' books" (Eco, 1983). ... He further perplexes ordinary readers with the linguistic challenges of numerous snatches of classical and medieval Latin, French, and German, not to mention the peculiar polyglot speech of one of the characters. ... Intended to house 270 people, both monks and laymen, it contained all the functions necessary to sustain body and soul without con...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As in his treatment of Parsi society, he transforms the historical situations and the reality of Indian life into a metaphor that shows how the individual reacts to widespread corruption when entangled in its grasp, as in Such a Long Journey, and how people respond to the endless forms of tyranny that government and society inflict, as in A Fine Balance. ... Asked if this dependence on memory rather than reality causes problems in his fictional re-creation of India, Mistry explained: "Some people might say it's arrogant of me not to live there and assume that I know everything from a vi...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As in his treatment of Parsi society, he transforms the historical situations and the reality of Indian life into a metaphor that shows how the individual reacts to widespread corruption when entangled in its grasp, as in Such a Long Journey, and how people respond to the endless forms of tyranny that government and society inflict, as in A Fine Balance. ... Asked if this dependence on memory rather than reality causes problems in his fictional re-creation of India, Mistry explained: "Some people might say it's arrogant of me not to live there and assume that I know everything from a vi...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate