Epistolary novel

instantaneous development of a hateful conspiracy to get rich, not by honourable work and unstinting behaviour, but by ruining the king, the state and other citizens.” ― Montesquieu, The Persian Letters (Letter 147) The Persian Letters is an epistolary novel about two men, Usbek and his friend Rica, traveling over the course of fourteen months from Isfahan (modern day Iran) to France. They spend ten years in Europe from 1711-1720 observing the cultural differences between Isfahan and France.…

The Color Purple is an epistolary novel written in1982 by Alice Walker. She was born to sharecropper parents in Eatonton, Georgia, in 1944. She is Pulitzer Prize-winning, African-American novelist and poet most famous for authoring The Color Purple. The Color Purple novel presents three black women who have struggles on their lives, and their society forces them to live like slaves and maids .They fight to achieve independency and freedom from men domination. Moreover, the novel creates a link…

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley´s for gothic fiction, science fiction, and all the horror novels that followed it.weaving the gothic elements of romantic values of nature and individualism, the author delivers a tale about unchecked ambition and the consequences of disturbing the order of nature, physiologist, artist, feminist, generation of scientists and ethicists have been inspired by the author dark story. The novel begins with some letters that Captain Walton wrote to his sister. In one of…

Texts that highlight the stratification of groups in society and the perpetual pursuit of self-identity will always endure through time. Michael Ondaatje’s historiographical 1987 novel, In the Skin of a Lion, addresses these two themes to a significant extent to convey his ultimate message about the migrant experience and inaccuracy of official histories. In using a post-modernist structure and style Ondaatje attacks the notion of the Grand Narrative whilst the struggle of the migrant…

In her novel Push, Sapphire uses multiple literary techniques to demonstrate how Precious creates a self-identity and a form of independence. As Precious learns to read, write, and create perceptions of her life and the world, she realizes that she is an individual that is unique and beautiful. Through Precious’s character, Sapphire reveals the emergence of a persons self-identity and newly discovered independence through a story of traumatic experiences. From the beginning of the novel,…

Fay Weldon's 1984 epistolary novel, Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen 1984, has a striking resemblance to Jane Austen's, Pride and Prejudice 1813, in terms of the contexts of Regency England and the contemporary society to emphasise the ever-changing nature of values. Over a 150 years later, audiences can still identify Austen's portrayal of moral challenges regarding the value of education and the importance of self-determination. Weldon has appropriated in a mono-context through…

familial control were discussed. In his novel “Persians Letters” 1721, Montesquieu contradicted the eighteenth century, prominent gender view, which stated that women should only do domestic duties in their home and they should be confined in it, through criticizing the institution of the harem, which holds the same requirement of confinement. One of those thinkers who supported and reinforced such a view was Jean-Jacque Rousseau, who in his books and novels, such as Emile or On Education (1762)…

Walker is an epistolary novel set in Rural Georgia in the early 20th century. The novel moves forward with letters written by the protagonist, Celie, to God, describing her perils, trials, tribulations, payers and hopes. The book won the Pulitzer Prize of 1983 and was adapted into a movie starring Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey in 1985 by Steven Spielberg. Of the many themes that the novel deals with in detail, feminism is quite possibly the most important and visible theme in the novel. In…

In spite of the title, Frankenstein rejects to be exclusively Victor’s story. This novel works to replace the individual voice with a labyrinth of voices. Shelley illustrates the notion of humanity as a production of multiple correspondences. Life itself overlapping, revealing connections, moving through past and present time: as do letters. Through the creation of Victor’s monster, human life exceeds the dimensions of any one individual, thus creating a parallel of impressions, each based upon…

the decisions that lead us to the how we feel about Eliza Wharton. We either feel sad for Eliza or we want to judge her for all the things she does, because to most her choices are the mistakes that ruin her life. To begin Foster’s take on her Epistolary…