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- 1191: David Copperfield
- ... was also supposed to 'never have been published on any account.' Later in chap 42 this condition is repeated: 'this manuscript is intended for no eyes but mine.' Of course this is part of the fiction, after all we are reading David's story ourselves when we reach this sentence. What is David Copperfield about? I pose myself this question to help illustrate how much of an autobiography this book really ...
- 1192: Crying Of Lot 49
- ... the character¡¦s search for the meaning of life. We may find in the end that, just like Oedipa, we ended up in our search at where we started. Furthurmore, this alternation of reality with fiction, such as the description of the ¡§Peter Pinguid Society¡¨(p.49), acts to confuse the reader to such an extent that the reader is forced to rely upon Oedipa to decipher what is reality from ...
- 1193: Catch 22 - Satire
- ... Absurdity." MOSAIC IV/3 (University of Manitoba, 1971) Lindberg, Gary. "Playing for Real - The Confidence Man in American Literature." Oxford University Press (1982) Merrill, Robert. "The Structure and Meaning of Catch-22. Studies in American Fiction. 14.2 (1986) Seltzer, Leon F. "Milo's 'Culpable Innocence': Absurdity as Moral Insanity in 'Catch-22.'" Papers on Language and Literature. 15.3 (1979) Usborne, David. "Joseph Heller, Master of Black Satire." Independent News ...
- 1194: Cask Of Amontillado
- ... to see that he is haunted with details that he can recall fifty years later. Grimes 6 Works Cited Benton, Roger P. "Poe’s ‘The Cask’ and the ‘White Webwork Which Gleams’." Studies in Short Fiction (1991): 183-195. Fagin, N. Bryllion. The Historic Mr. Poe. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1949. Gruesser, John. "Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado; Criticism & Interpretation." The Explicator (1998): 129-130. Lowell, James R. Tales ...
- 1195: Candide-Purposeful Satire
- ... respectable person, making the author's point of view seem just as reasonable and respectable. Another technique Voltaire uses in Candide is that of taking actual people and events and weaving into his work of fiction. He often does this to mock or ridicule his political and literary adversaries, as shown in the conversation between the abbe' and the Parisian supper guests (page 1593). The abbe' mentions two critics who in ...
- 1196: Brave New World
- ... societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the individual, who among others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and world of uninterest. In the science fiction book Brave New World, we are confronted with a man, Bernard Marx. Bernard is inadequate to his collegues. So he resorts to entertaining himself most evenings, without the company of a woman. This encourages his ...
- 1197: Brave New World
- BRAVE NEW WORLD BRAVE New World was published in 1932. It is a remarkable piece of science fiction for both its time and our own. It seems to withstand the intervening 65 years, primarily because of its depiction of a tightly controlled, rigidly stratified homogenous society. Issues of social control are as relevant ...
- 1198: Babylon Revisited
- ... of these characters and all of us are desperate to feel wanted and loved because it is nothing you can buy; you have to earn it. Bibliography Works Cited Page Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Babylon Revisited". Fiction `00. Third edition James H. Pickering. New York: Macmillan, 1982. 210-30. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Winter Dreams". The American Tradition in Literature. Fourth edition. Sculley Bradley. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1974. 54-75. Hemmingway, Ernest ...
- 1199: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... Lucie and Charles. Lucie is describes as being basically perfect in every way. She’s young, wholesome, and beautiful, of course. There’s no such thing as a good woman that wasn’t beautiful in fiction. Charles is a rich aristocrat, and we’re supposed to believe that he’s good and really noble because he didn’t want to kill people and he married the other "good" character. Please. Do ...
- 1200: A Rose For Emily
- ... to position the setting and describe the traits of Miss Emily keeping her "a mystery". What is a mystery? "A mystery is something not understood or beyond understanding: enigmatic quality or character: a work of fiction dealing with the solution if a mysterious crime" (Merriam Webster Dictionary 486). The narrator then relates how the townspeople perceived the Grierson family from the past. We had long thought of them as tableau, Miss ...
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