Historical novel

Despite being written twenty years apart, these two novels have many similarities. Both novels are presented through first person narration and have a reflective story-telling quality to them. Both novels seamlessly shift from past and present throughout the narrative. In both novels, the narrator addresses the reader. One example of this arising in Never Let Me Go is the various times that Kathy says: “I don’t know how it was where you were” (13). In The Handmaid’s Tale, Offred says: “ I am…

Finkelstein, Sidney. "Cold War, Religious Revival and Family Alienation: William Styron, J. D. Salinger and Edward Albee." Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 378, Gale, 2015. Literature Resource Center,. Accessed 16 May 2017. Originally published in Existentialism and Alienation in American Literature, International, 1965, pp. 211-242. As Sidney Finkelstein is a professor at Dartmouth University, has published twenty books and eighty articles, and has papers…

Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy is another work that could be characterized under the women's activist ordinance. The women's activist expressions in this five-section novel could be found in the trades between the ladies characters. The innovative and point by point investigation into the connections amongst moms and little girls, rich and poor, and high contrast in the book delivers the writer's contemplations on women's liberation. The way that Lucy is a semi-self-portraying record of Kincaid's…

Analysis of Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” “The Trial” by Franz Kafka is a novel of total meaningless living, wandering through court labyrinths and meaningless death. It was written in 1912 and published posthumously in 1925 by his friend Max Brod. Its manuscript was left unfinished and the author left his covenant to his friend to destroy it after his death, therefore, the novel was not intended for printing. However, despite the author's last wish, his friend decided not to obey him and not…

Jane Austen in Whitechapel London: A Jack the Ripper Adaptation I will adapt and combine the two Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, into a drama set in the 19th-century Victoria-era. The narrative itself will take place between August and November of 1888 and center around the historical serial murderer Jack the Ripper. The adaptation will be a collection of narrative poetry broken up into five chronologically parts, each labeled with the dates and names of the…

An epic is a long narrative novel that is designed in an elevated style that deals with the trials and achievement of great heroes. The virtues that are celebrated in the novel are of national, military, religion, and political as well as historical significance. For instance, Odyssey is one of the earliest epic that is still in existence in a number of ways. The epic of Odyssey opens with the subject and the statements of Muse who identifies the techniques that is associated with trials and…

Zorz Sari’s novel Κόκκινη κλωστή δεμένη is once again an exception. As it was mentioned in the previous chapter, this largely autobiographical novel was published in 1974 three years after the publication of the also autobiographical novel Όταν ο Ήλιος…. In these novels Sari reflects on her personal experience from the period of the Occupation, while her trilogy on History is completed with the novel Οι νικητές (The winners) set in the period of the Dekemvriana and published in 1983. Most of…

shame and shamelessness. Rushdie himself has stated in the novel that the country is not Pakistan and the novel is not a feminist novel but there is no denying from the fact that women occupy a very large portion of the novel. Rushdie portrays the gloomy picture of the Pakistani society in which the women have to face acute sufferings and oppression and suppression has become the talk of the town. The emphasis on the social, political & historical realities of the sub-continent is paralleled by…

I strongly recommended A Song of Ice and Fire to be a required fiction to read. It is worthwhile. Firstly, A Song of Ice and Fire, in my point of view, is not merely a fantasy and fiction, it more like a historical stories, reflected the moment in Wars of the Roses, representing a change of epics. The continents Westeros and Essos are similar as the two rival branches in throne of England: House of Plantagenet and House of York in 15th century, and even parallel as the current confliction…

to the reader an idea that civilization is not needed and that solely with community humans can help one another. After this we discussed the importance of objectivity and whether or not Rieux being the narrator changes how we should view the novel. This point is really interesting because we reflected on how Rieux never seems to be in the wrong. By…