Unreliable narrator

Paper #2 Professor Anthony Anemone Henry O’Reilly April 17th, 2017. Ladies and Gentleman of the Jury; The unreliable narration of Humbert Humbert “ Gentlemen of the jury! I cannot swear that certain motions pertaining to the business in hand- if I may coin an expression- had not drifted across my mind before. My mind had not retained them in any logical form or in any relation to definitely recollected occasions; but I cannot swear- let me repeat- that I had not toyed with them (To rig up yet…

Joe and Tyler’s underground fight clubs soon spread throughout the country as their outlet for society-based anger captivates more unsatisfied men, including the audience. Unbeknownst to Joe, Tyler has been travelling around the country, starting fight clubs and giving each member of them homework assignments. From destroying coffee shops to defacing buildings, fight club is no longer an underground operation. Instead, Tyler has created terrorists out of distraught, confused men who are…

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” is an account told by an unreliable narrator of an alcoholic, murderous madman who claims he loves animals, but kills them in a fit of madness. In the beginning, the narrator confesses that he has a great love for cats and dogs because they are loyal, unlike humans. The narrator marries and introduces his wife to his hobby of owning pets. One of these beloved pets is a black cat named Pluto. The man starts drinking and thus his personality changes drastically.…

Edgar Allen Poe is known for his disturbing, disconcerting, and dark short stories, “The Cask of Amontillado” is no exception. The short story opens with a first-person narrator, Montresor, at a carnival festival. He recounts this tale from his past of hid nemesis-of-the-moment, a man named Fortunato. Both are present at this celebration of excess and indulgence, dressed in festive costume. By no accident on Poe’s part, Fortunato is outfitted colorfully as a jester—a fool. The troubled Montresor…

Katherine Anne Porter’s famous short story “Flowering Judas” follows a women named Laura who is being courted by a man named Braggioni. The story itself uses symbolic meaning with flowers and religious symbols . With every event taking place in her house the reader feels the isolation with her. in Katherine Anne Porter “Flowering Judas the themes, author styles and literary devices all make the story more enjoyable to read. In Katherine Anne Porter’s “ Flowering Judas” the theme of Ideals vs…

The frame novel format of Woman At Point Zero conforms to the typical characteristics for this structure. Frame novels follow a “story within a story” format where the embedded narratives, the more emphasized part of the story, provide context for the main narratives (the introductory outside frame of the story). The first narrative will usually set the scene for the second narrative, which is commonly the more emphasize, important part of the frame set up. Woman at point zero follows this…

Dishonesty is a common theme in many works of literature. The denotation of dishonesty will be: When one person is deceptive either by intentionally withholding information or by making a false statement to another with the intent of deceit. In Natsume Sōseki’s 1916 novel Kokoro and Mark Twain’s 1884 novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the main characters have to deal with the dishonesty that occurs in their friendships. In Kokoro, Sensei, after losing everything to his uncle, thus making…

He gives the whole book an atmosphere of doubt. Since the book is written in a first person point of view. Compared to the House of Mirth where the readers rely on the narrator since it’s written in third person. Since the the House of Mirth is in first person the reader is dependant on the memory and the accuracy of John Dowell. Since the book it's a recollection of John Dowell’s memory it makes the book harder to follow…

“Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning. Both works have an unnamed narrator on a quest for masculinity through power and violence. While the behavior of the narrators in Fight club and “Porphyria’s Lover” appears to be proof of their madness, it is actually used to demonstrate the skewed view of masculinity in their respective societies and the insanity of these stereotypes. Both Fight Club and “Porphyria’s Lover” present the narrators’ views, as well as that of society around them, before…

through the narrator’s statement: “I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else” after the attorney allegedly didn’t understand him. The repetition of the fragment “like everybody else” implies that the narrator, Meursault is re-assuring himself that he is able to be a fully functioning member of society. There is sufficient evidence to suggest that the character of Tony Webster in Barnes’ postmodern novel is insecure as he forms prejudgements on…