Novel Essay Examples Page 26

The handing over of ten pounds was perfectly normal. However when he gets the cheque, someone completely different signed it. Enfield tells Utterson, “And signed with a name that I cannot mention.” This adds mystery as why would someone give ninety pounds to a man who was so detestable, and it adds mystery as who…

The trustworthiness and attentiveness of Nick Carraway, portrayed as a listener and an honest man, draw people in the novel to confide in him. These personal disclosures play a crucial role in advancing the plot and ultimately bringing it to a close. Nick’s lack of importance in his words causes everything else to hold significance….

Charles Dickens employs a first person narrative in his novel, Great Expectations, with the protagonist, Pip, serving as the narrator. Notably, this narrative is presented in a retrospective form, with Pip reflecting on his life. The retrospective point of view plays a significant role in shaping the readers’ reactions towards the plot. Primarily, in Great…

Albert Camus’ The Stranger and J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye are both among the most important novels of the twentieth century. The modern world’s general moral change and the individual’s alienation from the society serve as the main, basic topic for both novels which is still relevant to any twenty first century reader….

In the novella “Of Mice of Men” written by John Steinbeck is set in the mid 1930’s in the United States of America during the great depression. A time of hardship and sorrow for many. The novella is based around two average male itinerant workers who desire to fulfil the so called American dream. where…

“I no longer care about anything, and the end of my life is all I wish for.” (Unpublished Graffigny, 13-18)  Before developing into the “reigning queen” of French literature of the time, Mme de Graffigny (1695-1758) was a middle aged woman who lived a provincial life in the court of Stanislas in Lorraine.  Her most…

‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ is a novel written by Harper Lee during the Great Depression era in the 1930’s. The story resembles that of a real case, in which a group of black men were falsely accused of raping two white girls, and were sentenced to death – in this novel, Tom Robinson, a black…

Set during the sixties and using the Troubles in Northern Ireland as a suitably depressing backdrop, “Cal” by Bernard MacLaverty is the tale of a tragic love affair and the hopelessness of life during the Troubles. Cal’s struggle for normality within the chaos which was life in Northern Ireland, has enabled MacLaverty to create a…

‘Hard Times’ is a Charles Dickens novel set in the social backdrop of the Victorian era during the Industrial Revolution that took place during the 1850s. The ill effects of Victorian Utilitarianism are upheld in this moralistic vision of the writer. Unlike most of his novels, ‘Hard Times’ is not based in London but in…

Enjoying the freedom of an artist, Fielding in his ‘Tom Jones’ bursts on the literary scene giving thousands of hours for a kind of writing, which is in his own words, “I do not remember to have seen hitherto attempted in our language”. His immediate inspiration was the Spanish Classic, ‘Don Quixote’. However in discussing…