Comparison in which J.R.R Tolkien and Jules Verne have explored different perspectives on the idea of faith and doubt in their respective texts The Hobbit and Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
Both texts convey the idea of faith and doubt. The idea that doubt will always affect your journey, but faith may have enough strength to overcome the doubt in anything. Verne looks at both Protagonist one symbolising faithful and the other symbolising doubt. This is metaphorically showing how faith effects doubt. Tolkien protagonist Bilbo has faith and doubt in himself showing how his faith overcome his doubt as the story progresses. In these similar texts the protagonists are faced with difficult adventures that affect their faith in completing the …show more content…
Verne and Tolkien both use similar sentence structures to allow their story to be understandable by a teenaged reader and older, so that faith and doubts can be seen and how it influences the characters of both novels. Figurative language is used to express the idea of faith and doubt as it is not clearly shown in both the novels. Verne and Tolkien both use descriptive language to show the reader the amazing world they are in, from the centre of the Earth to the lands of middle earth and the idea of faith and doubt is express with description of the events of the protagonists. The reader must interpret the author’s idea of faith and doubt making it difficult to interpret the meaning of what the authors are trying to convey with this idea. Tolkien and Verne use different vocabulary in their respective texts. Verne’s uses a science vocabulary to express the scientific discoveries of the time like “electromagnetic phenomena” and to get young people in the science adventure spirit. While Tolkien uses a more fantasy vocabulary which expresses his ability to make different languages when he was at a young age like the words of the elves and Dwarves. Dwarf language is like Viking and the only way to read it is being translated by the narrator, but the Elven language is readable, so the reader can try to say the word but it may come out funny like “Rivendell”. The reader sees how different vocabulary is used to express the idea of faith and doubt through different context. The language features used are affected by the time the novels were written. The reader interprets that through different language features of the history, both novels are ability convey the idea of faith and doubt in the
Both texts convey the idea of faith and doubt. The idea that doubt will always affect your journey, but faith may have enough strength to overcome the doubt in anything. Verne looks at both Protagonist one symbolising faithful and the other symbolising doubt. This is metaphorically showing how faith effects doubt. Tolkien protagonist Bilbo has faith and doubt in himself showing how his faith overcome his doubt as the story progresses. In these similar texts the protagonists are faced with difficult adventures that affect their faith in completing the …show more content…
Verne and Tolkien both use similar sentence structures to allow their story to be understandable by a teenaged reader and older, so that faith and doubts can be seen and how it influences the characters of both novels. Figurative language is used to express the idea of faith and doubt as it is not clearly shown in both the novels. Verne and Tolkien both use descriptive language to show the reader the amazing world they are in, from the centre of the Earth to the lands of middle earth and the idea of faith and doubt is express with description of the events of the protagonists. The reader must interpret the author’s idea of faith and doubt making it difficult to interpret the meaning of what the authors are trying to convey with this idea. Tolkien and Verne use different vocabulary in their respective texts. Verne’s uses a science vocabulary to express the scientific discoveries of the time like “electromagnetic phenomena” and to get young people in the science adventure spirit. While Tolkien uses a more fantasy vocabulary which expresses his ability to make different languages when he was at a young age like the words of the elves and Dwarves. Dwarf language is like Viking and the only way to read it is being translated by the narrator, but the Elven language is readable, so the reader can try to say the word but it may come out funny like “Rivendell”. The reader sees how different vocabulary is used to express the idea of faith and doubt through different context. The language features used are affected by the time the novels were written. The reader interprets that through different language features of the history, both novels are ability convey the idea of faith and doubt in the