Shrewsbury Abbey

The Temple of My Familiar After a huge success of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (1983), another novel, The Temple of My Familiar came which was published in 1989. Though the events in the novel were beautifully woven but it did not receive much acclamation. bell hooks praised the novel and called it a “multivocal experiment with postmodern romance and magical realism (hooks)”. The novel is considered a sequel to Walker’s The Color Purple. Alice Walker herself described the novel as “a romance…

Imagine that you are reading a romance novel and never felt the sharp pang of love lost, how would readers like you react to the overall quality of the novel? Authors and directors utilise various literary devices and techniques in order to evoke emotional responses within their readers or viewers. The goal of evocation is to manipulate the audience’s emotion in order to evoke certain responses and reactions. Writers may utilise a character as a focal character who expresses feelings and…

The Beatles formed in Liverpool, England. John Lennon was in a band called the Quarry Men before The Beatles formed. When John met Paul McCartney, who was introduced through a friend, he was impressed by his talent with a guitar and asked Paul to join the band. Paul agreed to the offer. At age 14 George Harrison became the newest member. This took awhile to happen since George was so young. . Paul try to persuade John to let him join, but John didn’t give. After awhile of persistence from Paul,…

Charlotte Brontë, writer of the novel ‘Jane Eyre’, was a born in a typical British family. She was one of six children, of which three survived into adulthood. Except for her time spent at a boarding school in Brussels, she stayed most of her life in England. In ‘Jane Eyre’ though, a variety of foreign countries are talked about. India, France and Jamaica play an important role in the novel. The novel shows us the relationship between England and a handful of other places. Jane is the main…

Change of perspective In the novel, Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen we come across as a well told story where the characters are well drawn and supported. By observing the different encounters between Darcy and Elizabeth, we come to learn that she forms a prejudice against Mr. Darcy. Throughout the novel we see how these prejudices she has are ironic and even sometimes wrong and how he over comes his pride. In my essay I would like to look at three instances where we see how his actions are…

relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff. Brontë suggests gothic complexity through transgressing normal the limits of love and life . 3.2.1. The Setting and Weather Wuthering Heights does contain some elements of the Gothic conventions; however, there are many deviations and innovations made by the writer. As it is previously mentioned in chapter one , early Gothic novels typically take the setting of a dark manor or a haunted castle , whereas the setting in Wuthering Heights is the…

of red sandstone with chisel marks apparent on its flat top. The stone was removed from Scone in 1226 by the English King Edward I and placed inside the Coronation Chair of Westminster Abbey. The stone remained in England until the 1950s when it was kidnapped by Scottish nationalists but returned to Westminster Abbey in April 1951. On November 30, 1996, the British Conservative Government agreed to return the Stone over to Edinburgh Castle, where it is housed when not used in British…

through her exploration of human experience. Although Austen satirizes the excesses of the gothic through Catherine’s characterisation, Austen does not completely dismiss the truth behind the gothic. Richardson (2005: 399) explains how Northanger Abbey can be taken as a ‘particularly amusing satire on the tendency to read life through the lens of improbable fictions’. However,…

In the Westing Game, I believe that Sam Westing isn’t dead. Based on the clues that I have, I believe the faked his death. Sam Westing is trying to frame someone for his murder. There is a lot of evidence supporting that sam Westing isn't really dead. He wrote a will before he died saying that he was going to die, but is he really dead? How did he know something was going to happen before it did? Turtle said that his body looked like a wax dummy, but if it was just a fake Sam Westing wax…

Catherine Morland is the main character of Jane Austen’s book Northanger Abbey. Catherine is a protagonist, an un-heroic heroine, and the comedic figure of the story. Catherine is not like your typical heroine in a lot of ways. She isn’t smart, wealthy, beautiful, or tragic. Which was what Jane Austen used to break away from gothic novels. Catherine Morland is an un-heroic heroine. She is unfortunate but a very nice and sweet girl whom can be ridiculous at times. She isn’t very experienced…