The study is based on the assumption that literary style is paramount to literary communication and the meaning we derive out of a work of literature. Literary meaning cannot therefore be divorced from literary style. The purpose of the study is to examine how the style of masking communicates meaning in V.S. Naipaul’s collection of sketches, Miguel Street. The technique of masking is analyzed to show its aesthetic function in the text. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the text and
happily ever after” (Gordimer, 1). Yet, at the end trying to find more happiness away from the black population, they end up living a tragedy with the death of their son. This misfortune was due to their obsessive fear of the black world. During apartheid, white identity was schematized as power over the blackness of the rest of the population which was segregated. The essay through a literary analysis and a close reading of the text ought to bring out this white identity as conveyed and described
can be defined as an attraction for land and farming as a way of life. As a middle landscape, frequently represented in the symbols of the garden and the machine, the pastoral is amid nature and civilization. The pastoral ideal is borrowed from the literary tradition of the pastoral, with its images of sylvan meadows and the rural life as havens from the dangers of the world. The rural ideal represents which visualize the country-side as a source of life, peace, innocence and simple virtue, a refugee
equality, King uses empowering literary devices and urges the human race to take action before racism consumes all thoughts, feelings, and emotions. In essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s central idea in his “I Have A Dream” speech is we all need to work together as one to accomplish the goal of equality between all people for upcoming generations. First and foremost, King heats up his central idea in his speech by addressing the need to work together as one, both blacks and whites. Midway through
movement; such social transmogrifications as Civil War and tactful disenfranchisement of most Blacks; and above all such literary rebellions as Racial Uplift Agenda and Harlem Renaissance. Hence, identity crisis was very much in the highlight. A discursive analysis of the manifesto of the above mentioned two literary movements alone suffices for the study of identity conflicts within and without the literary spheres. W. E. B. Du Bois in his article The Criteria of Negro published in the journal The
literary analysis: Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets I’ve read Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets, a book written by J.K. Rowling. It’s the second book in a series of 7. The book is about Harry Potter, a 12-year-old wizard going to Hogwarts. This year, people are getting stupefied without anyone knowing the reason behind it. At the same time, Harry can hear voices that no one else can. The main character’s name is Harry Potter. He is a 12-year-old orphan and has lived with his abusive
Orange Literary Analysis What’s going to be then, eh? A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, starts with this question as it reinforces the theme of the book, the inviolability of individual moral choice and the necessity of commitment in life. Fifteen years old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the state tries to reform him- but at what cost? A Clockwork orange is a dystopian novel and black comedy
seem relevant in the context of the novella and to illustrate them by reference to the primary source. in this attempt, a New-Criticism-based analysis will be employed. As said above, the novella is a Naturalistic one. Like Realism, Naturalism seeks to depict reality in all its aspects, insisting on the fact that everything that exists in the literary dimension is correlated to the exterior world. What distinguishes it from Realism is the interest towards the darker aspects of human beings
Marx 's system, known as Marxism, caught the attention and support of thousands, including author John Steinbeck. Of Mice And Men is full of Marxism. Steinbeck seems to have quiet been sympathetic towards many elements of Marxism. Marxist is the analysis of human events and productions that focuses on relationships among socioeconomic classes, both within a society and among societies and it explains all human activities in terms of the distribution and dynamics of economic power. They 're all based
dark period of the Kenyan history was and continue to be a source of inspiration and reflexion among many Kenyan men of letters. To bring on surface the olonial gory system, one of the most famous Kenyan writers, Ngugi wa Thiongo, in most of his literary works, strenuously, enlivens the matter of the colonial enterprise in Africa in general and Kenya in particular. In his combat for the rehabilitation of the ABC of