Allusion

Victor Frankenstein’s Monster, reflecting on his life, compares Victor creating him, to God creating Adam. By employing this allusion, Shelley establishes that the monster’s tale ventures in a seemingly parallel yet opposite direction as the story of God creating man, while simultaneously foreshadowing the path that the novel as a whole will follow. For instance, the allusion first connects Frankenstein’s monster being brought into existence by the hands of Victor to Adam “com[ing] forth by the…

society is tarnished and injured. This is conveyed through allusion, syntax, and diction to establish ethos and logos. The…

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a tragedy which illustrates his command of the English language, and resonates to this day as a well-known play. Utilizing allusion and intertwining metaphor and simile perfectly, to create a captivating performance in Act III Scene II of Hamlet, Shakespeare’s rhetoric creates suspense. These literary devices allow this particular scene to shine as a part of the play, and allow for the development of questioning. In the scene, Horatio and Hamlet conversing…

shows how every literary work has biblical allusions by showing how biblical allusions are utilized for different purposes. He continues this claim by connecting poetry, modern texts, postmodern texts, plays, nonreligious texts and many more to the Bible. He proves this by providing examples such as a scene in Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) where the characters view four white men riding on horses on the road. However, Foster claims this scene as an allusion to Judgement Day which is what the…

nineteenth-century. She grew up in a very religious family, which impacted her life later on. A majority of her works reflect a religious focus based on her upbringing. One of her most famous works was Goblin Market and Other Poems. This collection of poems is an allusion to Bible, discussing themes of temptation, salvation, gender roles, feminism, and sexual desires. She wrote the poem “A Daughter of Eve” as a part of this collection when it was published in 1875. In this poem, Rossetti is…

The driving force behind these actions were the empowerment of her desires. Williams uses allusions to develop the theme of desire as seen in Blanche and those allusions are Arabian Nights, My Rosenkavalier, and Elysian Fields. Blanche uses the allusion Arabian Nights to show her desire of wanting to be with young men to relive the moments she had with her young husband,…

The Many Allusions of Bartleby “Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street” is a complex story with many different components that contribute to its depth and meaning. One of the most important components would be the allusions, because they incorporate more subtle descriptions of the characters and allow the reader to interpret a whole other meaning to the story. The allusions within this story allow the reader to discover the deeper themes of isolation and corrupt American capitalism…

An Oxford don, a romanticist and a loyal Catholic, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien fit the perfect mold for creating the greatest epic trilogy of the twentieth century (Jones 11, 22, 25). Specializing in areas such as Welsh and Anglo-Saxon language, history, and literature, J. R. R. Tolkien gained enough knowledge to create his own language for the character origins and names in his stories, such as those of the elves and the dwarves (31). The combination of his Germanic insight on history and…

How do mythological allusions in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves establish the novel’s setting of the house on Ash Tree Lane? Introduction Literature has, since its conception, maintained a close relationship with religion and mythology – not only through religious texts and mythical canon. Much prose and poetry embrace the use of allusions: textual references to other works or bodies, and these references serve to better elaborate a part of the text and/or connect the reader to the text…

An allusion is a reference to a famous person, place, thing, or event. Among Ray Bradbury’s most influential and widely recognized works, Fahrenheit 451 displays the impact that censorship and forced conformity plays on a group of people living in a dystopia. The book takes place in the future and is told through the main character, Guy Montag’s view. Fahrenheit 451 demonstrates the struggles with the censorship and propaganda the government is using to convince people to conform to their idea…