Essays on Epistolary

The epistolary novel and intimacy are often branded as synonymous terms. The Coquette initially aligns itself as simply an epistolary novel, as the controlled expression of the writers, and limited point of view, offered by the letter form, allows the two leading men to reveal their true thoughts, whether they are the suddenly untempered passions of Reverend Boyer or the duplicitous libertinism of Major Sanford, in a limited and controlled way. However, the often stark contrast between these written confessions and other characters’ perceptions of the writers gives the reader a sense of intimacy, and involvement, in spite of ...

Epistolary form is an primeval type of novel writing style and this genre was mainly popular during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It basically involves letters and journal entries by numerous characters that are part of the novel and according to that it depicts the story-line of the novel. In my opinion, it successfully adds realism to the story-line and reflects the character traits in a much more realistic way instead of the other writing styles in use by modern authors nowadays. This style of writing also helps in the better understanding of the characters and presents a closer and deeper ...

World war Z is a real surprise. The zombie wars came very close to the point of eradicating humanity. With a high level of brilliance, Max Brooks takes us through the urgency of experiencing the acid-etched first-hand information about the experiences of the zombie wars survivors from the apocalyptic years. He opted to travel across the United States and the world at large, from the most remote and inhospitable areas of the world to the decimated cities that once filled up with more than thirty million souls. All along this journey Brooks managed to capture the stories and testimonies of men ...

Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley written in 1818 during the Romantic period and is a Gothic novel. The story is about a journey of the characters in the novel and about their quests and their relationships. The story begins with a man named Robert Walton exploring the North Pole where amidst the cold and mist Captain Walton comes across a lifeless man almost frozen in the ice. This man was Victor Frankenstein. It can be said that Captain Walton “saved” lifeless Frankenstein as compared to just keeping him alive for a week because what Captain Walton heard in that week was the ...

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Tobias Smollett is regarded as one of the most important novelist in the 18th century Great Britain. The 18th century is when the first true novels emerged as a new form of literary expression and Smollett introduced notable works during the era such as the “The Expedition of Humpry Clinker”. The novel follows the epistolary form where a series of documents such as letters were resembled to create the novel. This literary approach was popular during the 18th century where the aforementioned novel by Smollett was published. The objective of this critical analysis is to examine the components of Smollett’s ...

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Review and Analysis 1980s’ was a crucial time for America. Racism was high during the Reagan presidency. . It was during this time that, in 1982, Alice Walker wrote a book titled “The Color Purple”. Written in an epistolary form, the book tackled the issues of racism, violence and sexism in the USA. Born in Georgia in 1944, Alice Walker came from a struggling family. Her father was a farmer while her mother was working as a maid to support their family. As a child, Walker was inspired by the tales her grandfather told her. Her grandfather was ...

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Hebrews represents one of the New Testament books that lack self attestation author thus its canonicity is disputed. The absentia of Hebrews authorship has forced several scholars and theologians to carry out enormous research to reveal who might have written the book.

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Studies indicate that Interest in the letter to the Hebrews as dramatically grown in recent years, with special sessions at major international conferences and canonical annual meetings demarcating the trend. However to the great realization, Hebrews represents one of the New Testament books that lack self attestation author thus its canonicity is disputed. The absentia of Hebrews ...

First Impressions was the first original version of Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen in 1797. Jane’s father, Rector George Austen liked the novel and even offered to pay for its publication; however, the publisher rejected the novel out of hand. In 1813, the same book appeared to the public, although considerably revised, as Pride and Prejudice. This was her second book. The first, Sense and Sensibility, had appeared two years earlier. Both novels were published anonymously, although some people knew who the author was, it was not until her death that the secret became publicly known. ...

Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary novel which tells the story of the narrator Werther, through a series of dated letters his “best of friends” Wilhelm. The letters develop the character’s narrative, the ongoing of his inner life, by narrating his own sentiments and reflections on his interior state of mind. This at times moves over time from elation to despair across a few weeks, and moves eventually towards a more dramatic shift between those two emotions, sometimes within a single sentences. The exclusion of other points of views, other than dislodging interjections of the narrator, further contributes ...

When the volcano inside Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, the ash in the sky left the next summer very dreary and cold. When the eighteen-year-old Mary Godwin traveled with her lover, Percy Shelley, to Switzerland to visit Lord Byron, the weather was so miserable that the group could never take part in the outdoor activities they had planned; instead, they had to amuse themselves indoors. After spending one evening talking about the possibility of returning dead bodies to life and reading German ghost stories, Lord Byron suggested a bet for the group – that each of them would write a supernatural story. ...

Alice Walker’s The Color Purple is a heroic story of a female protagonist Celie, who starts her journey as being a tragic heroine to finally gaining a voice and a sense of self-worth. By being surrounded by social outcasts such as Shug Avery, and being taught how to appreciate herself and her sexuality, by taking back the identity that has been cruelly taken away from her through abuse and sexual exploitation, by the end of the novel, Celie will emerge as the victor and sole owner of her own happiness. At the very beginning, the fourteen year old Celie’s finds herself ...

In his iconic novel Dracula, Bram Stoker moves away from the traditionally accepted notion of an ordinary narrative, and in an effort to obscure the narrator’s own voice, resorts to a technique referred to as an epistolary narrative, where the plot is unfolded before the reader in a succession of personal letters exchanged between characters, diary entries, ship logs, newspaper reports, and similar. By utilizing this technique, the author distances himself from the position of an all-knowing, all-powerful, omniscient narrator, and allows every single character to divulge as much information as he or she possesses as an individual. Consequently, it ...

Alice Walker’s The Color Purple is a heroic narrative of an African American woman, who in a social context of intense agonizing relationships, eventually reaches safe grounds in issues of feminism and racial liberation. It is a bildungsroman of a female protagonist Celie, who commences her journey as being a tragic heroine to the final attaining of a heroic status, by utilizing an empowering subjectivity that will eventually resonate with all other African American women she is surrounded by. In the end, she will finally reach the “heroic selfhood [which] is achieved when the protagonist successfully subverts those conventions of the established social order ...

The color purple by Alice Walker, it’s a novel which discusses and narrates issues concerning gender inequalities, discrimination and racism within a community based in South America, in the early 1900’s. The main character in the novel “Celie” is a young black woman abused and violated by close members of her family such as, his father and his husband. In this case the novel raised questions to readers of the novel, making them eager wanting to know why didn’t “Celie” tell her mother what his father was doing to her? Another question triggered to readers is; did Celie really ...

Introduction

‘The Color Purple’ by Alice Walker is a novel which discusses and narrates issues concerning gender inequalities, discrimination and racism within a community based in South America, in the early 1900’s. The main character in the novel Celie is a young black woman abused and violated by close members of her family such as, her father and her husband. The novel raised questions to the readers, making them eager to know why didn’t Celie tell her mother what her father had been doing to her. Another question to readers is: did Celie really wanted to protect her sister or ...

Offred is the storyteller and the leading role of the novel, and we are narrated to the whole tale from her opinion, recognizing happenings and reminiscences as vibrantly as she does. She narrates the chronicles as it occurs, and illustrates to us the journeys of her mind via flashbacks and parentheses. She is clever, insightful, and kind. She has sufficient liabilities to make her human, but not so numerous that she turns into an insensitive individual. She also entails a sinister sense of humor that is a cemetery wit that creates her accounts of the dreary terrors of Gilead tolerable, even ...