Monk

"Character Studies for Les Miserables." Stuartfernie. Stuart Fernie, n.d. Web. 16 Mar. 2015. Stuart Fernie is one of the most famous writers, that's why I choose his article from his own website. In this article Fernie talks about the main characters, he focuses on the way of how they act, think and gives background about each one of them. He mentions many examples, and I'm interested in Valjean character because he is the most famous character in this novel. Fernie focuses on…

“The person, be it a gentleman or a lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”- Jane Austen Northanger Abbey. Growing up around books influenced the way Jane Austen incorporated symbols into her own writings, sometimes even using books to build her characters and themes. Prominently shown through Austen’s Northanger Abbey and seen in her other pieces, she expertly uses engaging realism, subtle irony, and effective parodies of what was going on during her lifetime,…

In Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland, the protagonist is a young naïve girl who is not a very good judge of character. She falls in love with a man much older than her, named Henry Tilney. Henry enjoys Catherine’s ignorance and educating her of things she doesn’t know. This essay will examine a passage from volume two, chapter nine wherein Henry finds out Catherine has been accusing his father of murdering his mother. Through the use of satirical tone, the implementation of odd…

Wallace’s analysis of Northanger Abbey focuses on the reader’s relationships with the narrator and the author. To highlight this relationship, Wallace chooses to concentrate on the character of Henry Tilney. More specifically, Wallace shows how Henry Tilney’s satire relies on reductive generalizations of other characters, particularly female ones. Wallace then connects this trait of Henry’s to Austen’s tendency to reductively generalize her readers and manipulate her reader into becoming an…

The Friar is a perfect example of a religious figure who fails to conduct their job and follow their vows in the correct manner. The Friar said that “he was qualified to hear confessions” (1.222), and that “he had special license from the Pope” (1.224). When the people confess to the Friar an easy penance is given, but only when “he could hope to make a decent living” (1.228). This means that in order to receive forgiveness by the Friar the confessor will have to give the Friar a nice gift, or a…

A monk is a member of a religious community that vows to be obedient so that they are able to be holy. However, the monk on his way to Canterbury couldn’t be any more different. Most monks fasten; spend their time in prayer, or studying lord’s word, however, this monk was different. He had a mare he was good too, whom he took hunting with him all the time. At this time hunters were not known as holy men. The monk was even known as one of the finest in his sport for hunting. His personality was…

A hooker desperate to save her young son from a brutal gangster, is trained in martial arts by a Shaolin Monk. BRIEF SYNOPSIS The inner city of Detroit is run by a pimp-gangster, K2. K2 runs a prostitution and drug organization. Tenekwa (30’s), the single mother of Darwin (3), works for K2. Tenekwa and K2 share a past together. Tenekwa wants to be the superhero in her child’s life. When Tenekwa asserts her independence, and creates a phone application that the other hookers can use and cut out…

the word "monk" one thinks of a quiet, reserved, modest, religious man, who has dedicated his life to his religion. However, the monk that Chauncer described is none of these things. To call the man a monk is a complete and total contradiction. First, the monk is said to be, "an outrider, who most loved venery" (166). Monks are to take a vow of chastity, and to indulge in sex is to break his vows. It is obvious from the beginning that this "monk" is not very deserving of the title. The monk is…

century apart from one another, Matthew Lewis’ The Monk and A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess both present their main characters, Father Ambrosio and Alex DeLarge, to be the…

male gothic with the female gothic, the differences between the novels The Monk by Matthew Lewis and The Italian by Ann Radcliffe, the sub-genres of gothic literature are blatantly expressed. Specifically, the authors contrast in the way each of them portrays: scenery, violence, sexual perversion, and emotions. The basic sub-genres of gothic literature are the “male” and “female” gothic. Between the two novels, The Monk is a male-gothic and The Italian is a female-gothic. While it is easy to…