The prose style by the author of The Stranger, Albert Camus, is reflected in the description of the main character, Meursault
Guillermo Ortiz FORL 100W Essay #2 The creation of a criminal The prose style by the author of The Stranger, Albert Camus, is reflected in the description of the main character, Meurasault. Throughout the book, Meursault does not show any emotions. The sentences in this chapter are very concise and consist of simple action verbs. The past tense is primarily used and there are some lines of dialogue in the book. This makes the reader to pay a closer attention to this dialogue. An example of this dialogue is when the character Meursault makes the first statement in quotes. “It’s not my fault.” (Camus 3). Meursault makes this remark in response to the death of his moth. He is upset that the death makes him miss work and it is not his fault at all. This sentence also shows the lack of emotion Meursault has in response to his mother’s death. The first part of the book is about the day of Meursault’s mother’s funeral. “Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. I got a telegram from the home. ‘Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.”’ That doesn’t mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday”(Camus 3). Meursault received bad news that his mother had died, however, his reaction to the news makes it sound like it does not matter much to him. Later on in the chapter Meursault makes the readers furious with his indifference as a son. Not
"A Good Man Is Hard To Find" by Flannery OConnor. A Literary Analysis
ENC 1102 - 151961 9 March 2012 A Good Man Is Hard To Find A Literary Analysis One of O'Connor's most widely read stories "A Good Man is Hard to Find" written in 1953, without a doubt is also her most shocking. Yet is it through the story's disturbing ending that O'Connor raises fundamental questions about good and evil, morality and immorality, faith and doubt, and the particularly Southern "binaries" of black and white and Southern history and progress (Link 126). Ever since the beginning of time, mankind has been searching for a higher power that will guide them through life, and show them the "true way". Christianity is the largest religion in Western Society, and it has functioned as a guiding rule, helping Christians for centuries to decide what is right or wrong (Bethea 246). In Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" this theme is brought up in a rather controversial way: how should you really act as a righteous Christian, and is everything as black or white as it first may seem? According to Bryant, this is being pushed to the extreme in O'Connor's work, where she makes it fully clear that everybody can change and eventually reach salvation, even though some people must encounter the most extreme situations, in this case death, to reach enlightenment. In the very beginning of the story, we get to see one of the grandmother's basic traits;
Straying from the Path
Straying from the Path Based on a short story by Angela Carter, Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves (1984) is a film that is rich in fairy tale symbolism and imagery. While in many variations of the story of Little Red Riding Hood celebrate the coming of age of a young woman, the most well known versions of the fairy tale warn young girls about the dangers of sexual maturity, and stresses the importance of obedience and conformity to a passive feminine gender role. However, Carter's feminist revision of the fairy tale challenges conventional gender roles by depicting a fearless girl who refuses to be victimized. Like the strong-minded child in Carter's short story, Rosaleen is an independent young girl who becomes an equal to the fiercest of wolves. The film presents a symbolic dream world where a girl's transition into womanhood is both beautiful and terrifying. There are many versions of Little Red Riding hood. In European oral tradition during the middle ages, the girl is going to her grandmother's house and meets a wolf or a werewolf, and each of them takes a different path to the house. The wolf arrives first, devours the grandmother, waits in disguise for the girl, and offers the girl her grandmother's flesh and blood to eat and drink. Then the girl strips off her clothes, throws them into the fire, and joins the wolf in bed. After a ritual exchange about body parts
Examine the figure of the outsider in any contemporary British work of fiction.
Examine the figure of the outsider in any contemporary British work of fiction. Any outsider in contemporary British fiction, and indeed fiction in general, is normally significant because of the catalytic role that they usually play within the text. Dr. Faraday of Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger is no exception to this rule. However Faraday, in the role of 'the outsider' is responsible for a variety of functions and purposes within the novel which will be the focus of this essay. Faraday's primary role in the text is the narrator; all of the strange occurrences that happen in Hundreds Hall are told from his perspective. As an 'outsider' he never directly witnesses any of the events which means the reader is left with a third hand account of the goings on. However, as the character is not directly involved, he shares the reader's distance from the happenings meaning he, with the reader, is able to investigate with a reasoned approach. It is Faraday's shared scepticism of the 'supernatural explanation' for the events that occur at Hundreds Hall that make him a part of the 'fantastic' nature of Waters' novel. A fantastic text in the words of Tzvetan Todorov must: '...oblige the reader to consider the world of the characters as a world of living persons and to hesitate between a natural and a supernatural explanation of the events described. Second, this hesitation may
Chronicle of a Death Foretold theme anaylsis
Jason Levine English 2025 - 20 Short Response Essay 1 In the novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a story of a man whom two brothers murder in the name of honor. This story takes place in the early to mid twentieth century in a poor agrarian town in Columbia, South America. Santiago Nasar has been named as the man that took Angela Vicario's virginity and the twin brothers must kill him to restore honor to their family's name. This town is a very small tight knit community where everyone knows everyone else and most people are related in some way. When something wrong happens to a family in this community, the whole town is wronged in a way. Since the people in this community are poor the only way they can earn and keep respect is honor. Honor is, essentially, the only thing people in small communities such as this one have, next to family. If a family is dishonored in this community, they lose the respect of the community and either restore honor, move out of the community, or live in shame in the community, the latter of which is never an option. So when the brothers find out their sister's virginity has been taken by another man and shamed their family, they must restore honor to the family's name and kill the man who did it. I think the theme of this novella is how important honor is in a small community, such as the one in this story. The
Examining the passages below, compare and contrast the representations of the heroines choice at the end Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre.
Ashleigh-Jade BlackB9864021TMA 2 Examining the passages below, compare and contrast the representations of the heroine’s choice at the end of the novel. Discuss with reference to Jane Eyre, Volume III, Chapter XII, pp. 448–52 (from ‘Reader I married him’ to the end of the novel) and Wide Sargasso Sea, pp. 121–4 (from ‘I took the red dress down and put it against myself’ to the end of the novel). The heroine’s choice at the end of each of the novels, Wide Sargasso Sea[1] and Jane Eyre[2], are almost the complete antithesis of one another. While Jane becomes a happily married woman, seemingly finding her place in society, Antoinette become increasingly outcast, eventually leading to her imprisonment, madness and self-destruction. There are many ways that the representation of these choices can be analysed as they both rely heavily on the social conventions of the time. Each novel focuses on the idea of a strong female narrative, whose identity does not quite fit with their surroundings. Jane is an observer, struggling to find a place to belong in a society that cannot mould her into an ideal. Correa, in The Nineteenth Century Novel: Realisms, claims that Jane’s story is ‘[...] dominated by the search for a home and ‘family’ to replace those which rejected her at its outset.’[3] This could be a simple answer as to why at the end of the novel, Jane,
With reference to Judith Butler's Precarious Lives, explain how Chris Abani's novel The Virgin of Flames re-imagines global community in the contexts of violence, war and mourning.
With reference to Judith Butler's Precarious Lives, explain how Chris Abani's novel The Virgin of Flames re-imagines global community in the contexts of violence, war and mourning. Chris Abani’s novel The Virgin of Flames is a post 9/11 narrative that inadvertently experiments with Judith Butler’s concept of “reimagining the possibility of community on the basis of vulnerability and loss” (20). This is a novel encapsulated in a theme of violence, war and mourning and the four mysteries displayed to Black by the angel Gabriel operate as a catalyst of Abani’s perception of how society has unravelled and this understanding could pave the way for a more candid approach to re-organise society. These four stages represent “the subtle movements that made and unmade a life” (143) and the mysteries; the joyful, the luminous, the sorrowful and the glorious serve to represent distinctive features of Butler’s idea of a hierarchy of grief but more importantly they epitomise her concept of how community can be re-imagined. First we need to look at Butler’s hypothesis, her main proposition is that the powers of violence, war and mourning should not bring us to retaliate but should provide us with the consciousness that our lives are fundamentally reliant on others. Acknowledging our dependency and susceptibility to others would serve as the first step in the creation of
Symbolism in Lord of The Flies
Idris Lacme Prof. Dr. Adina Ciugureanu Seminar: Nicoleta Stanca British Literature 2nd year 31. May. 2007 Symbolism In Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies tells the story of a group of English schoolboys marooned on a tropical island after their plane is shot down during a war. The boys assemble on the beach. In the election for leader, Ralph defeats Jack, who is furious when he loses. As the boys explore the island, tension grows between Jack, who is interested only in hunting, and Ralph, who believes most of the boys' efforts should go toward building shelters and maintaining a signal fire. When rumors surface that there is some sort of beast living on the island, the boys grow fearful, and the group begins to divide into two camps supporting Ralph and Jack, respectively. Ultimately, Jack forms a new tribe, fully immersing himself in the savagery of the hunt. Though the novel is fictional, its exploration of the idea of human evil is at least partly based on Golding's experience with the real-life violence and brutality of World War II. Free from the rules that the society of adults' formerly imposed on them, the boys struggle with the conflicting human instincts that exist within each of them-the instinct to work toward civilization and order and the instinct to descend into savagery, violence, and chaos. As the boys splinter into factions, some behave peacefully