Enduring Love

"How Does the Author use Pathetic Fallacy in his Descriptions of the Settings and the Effects of this Open the Reader" Helen Allman The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is an excellent book, and is held up as one of the best mysteries in the literary world. Holmes, the well-known detective, is asked to investigate the death of Charles Baskerville, which many believe to be the work of the ferocious hound, a curse brought about by…...

Critical reactions to Enduring Love were polarised, referees changing well in their responses, from the lauding to the dismissive. Among the positive voices, Anita Brookner described it as `` a brilliant novel '' and `` fantastic fiction '' crafted with `` utmost forbearance, '' praising its inventive usage of `` psychological terrorist act '' ;[ 1 ]Merritt Moseley considered it one of the best novels of 1997 ;[ 2 ]and Rosemary Dinnage looked up to McEwan as `` the quietest…...

At first glance, Anthony Hecht's "Dover Bitch" is not only funnier than Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach", but also describes a more "liberated" relationship; the poem is as free from what some would consider stuffy Victorian morals as it is from references to Sophocles. Hecht's urbane and flippant persona tends to win over its audience, whether they find irony in the poem that adds to their appreciation of "Dover Beach", appreciate the poem as a criticism of Victorian morals, or laugh…...

Mary Shelley presents rejection very much through her characterisation of the Frankenstein monster. I have taken an extract from the novel in which Frankenstein is reunited with his monster. In this extract the monster relates to Frankenstein the troubles he has had in mixing in human society, and he then threatens Frankenstein to build himself a mate. Shelley presents the monster’s rejection through her use of form, structure and language, of which she uses to highlight the significance of the…...

Annabel Lee as a representative of Poe’s poems about death of beautiful maidens It's always a little hard to separate the life of the legendary Poe from his works. In this case, there are some striking similarities. „Annabel Lee“ is the last complete poem written by Poe, published shortly after his death in 1849. Like many of Poe's poems including "The Raven," "Ulalume," and "To One in Paradise“, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman, “the…...

The noise of the poem is measured, rhythmic and peaceful and the poet's use of alliteration, assonance and sibilance give a sense of a hushed, calm tone. Her choice of diction, enjambment and the picked rhythm of iambic pentameter offers an exact and unhurried feel to the sound of the poem. The reader senses the poet's passion and enduring love in a mild way and is entrusted a feeling that the poets life invested within doors, silently considering her love…...

In “Enduring Love”, McEwan again creates a family that confronts a challenge and finds it difficult to survive. Joe and Clarissa are intellectuals living together in a well-appointed flat in a comfortable neighborhood in London. Clarissa is a professor researching Keats, and Joe is a well-known science writer with a doctorate in quantum electrodynamics who is somewhat dissatisfied with his decision to leave academia behind. Through the story utilizing the characters of Joe and Clarissa, McEwan articulates the idea humans…...

Chang-Rae Lee’s story, Coming Home Again, is a powerful story about the author’s relationship with his mother. The story is told from the author’s point of view. Lee begins the story in the present when his mother is terminally ill from stomach cancer and then quickly flashes back to the time before he left to attend Exeter boarding school far away from home. Growing up as a young child, he shares a very close relationship with his mother. His mother…...

The opening of a piece of literature is very important as it is responsible for creating the interest and anticipation that will drive the reader to carry on and enjoy it. Readers expect openings to include a couple of key areas like the setting, the introduction of characters and interest through a form of enigma or tension. Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love both conforms and challenges what a reader would expect of an opening through opening on what seems to be…...

The Count of Monte Cristo Characters Edmond Dantès - The protagonist of the novel. Dantès is an intelligent, honest, and loving man who turns bitter and vengeful after he is framed for a crime he does not commit. When Dantès finds himself free and enormously wealthy, he takes it upon himself to act as the agent of Providence, rewarding those who have helped him in his plight and punishing those responsible for his years of agony. The Count of Monte…...

Notwithstanding the fact that life and death is a recurring and typical theme in most literary genres, famous American poet Edgar Allan Poe successfully depicted this theme through his creative and inventive literary techniques present in the poems The Bells and The Haunted Palace. Poe’s The Bells depicts a representation of life from youth to the pain of age as time passes by. The four kinds of bells which are described in details in the poem can be associated to…...

The Eolian Harp by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, can be described as the musings of a man thinking about his love for his wife Sara, the beauty of nature and about the wonder of God in providing him with both nature and Sara. The voice of the poem is Coleridge himself as it refers to Sara, his wife at the time of writing. It is a Romantic poem as it deals with a mixture of traditional Romantic themes: those of strong…...

Another climax begins at the end of chapter 21 with a phone call between Jed and Joe “I’m putting her on, OK? Are you there? Joe? Are you there?” Here McEwan uses juxtaposition of beginning an event within the formal closure of a chapter. The effect of this adds suspense to the novel as a whole as it wills the reader to follow the chain of events. Also, the panicked dialogue of “Are you there? Joe? Are you there?” heightens…...