...Reference A gothic novel has many elements, some of which can be easily identified; the gloomy tone, the strange, mysterious events. Some of the more difficult elements to recognise may be the different layers of reality, or the way the story is told . The Turn of The Screw is a perfect example of a gothic novella; it has all the above elements, which are cleverly implemented throughout the text. One of these elements is James’ use of the frame narrative. I will be discussing the frame narrative and narrators, with particular focus on Douglas, and how it affects the governess’ story. The Turn of The Screw; a novella in which one thinks less about the literary techniques, or the writing style, but more about the story itself. One finds oneself asking; are the ghosts real? Is the governess insane? Is it a conspiracy? We, as the reader need to take a closer look at the text to identity and analyse the techniques, the words, the imagery that gives the story its mystery and intrigue. One such technique is the use of a frame narrative, we hear the story from the unnamed narrator, Douglas and then from the Governess. We know very little about any of the narrators, however, perhaps the narrator that stands out most is Douglas; he is our link to the Governess and her story. Although we are not given much information on Douglas, he is very cleverly used by James. He is the only person present who knew the governess, and the similarities between him and Miles are thought provoking...
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...Narrative Writing Part One: Narrative Components In at least 1-2 complete sentences and in your own words, define and describe each narrative component. You will find these terms listed and explained on pages 46-59 of the textbook. Thesis: The subject for a composition or essay. This is the first thing you always read in an essay or composition; it gives you the information for the whole essay. Narration: Narration is the action or process of narrating a story. The narrator is usually a personal character or a random character the narrator came up with. Dialogue: The dialogue is a conversation between two or more people in the book, or movie. Allusions: Expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly. Allusion is also a figure of speech. Writer’s voice: Individual writing style of an author. The voice can be thought of in terms of the uniqueness of a vocal voice machine. Figurative language: A figure of speech in which things that are different are compared by the use of the words like or as. Metaphor: Figure of speech that identifies one thing as being the same as some unrelated other thing as being the same as some unrelated other thing. The most prominent examples of a metaphor in English lit are “All the worlds a stage” monologue from “As you like it.” Simile: Figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing it another thing of a different kind. Understatement: The presentation of something as being smaller, worse or...
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...not make much sense and there is no apparent rhyme or reason behind the inevitable twists and turns. This atmosphere of uncertainty is intensified by the use of a restricted point of view. We experience the narrative through the eyes and voice of the protagonist, rarely surpassing him in awareness. The protagonist is often motivated by a sense of justice that goes...
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...Pictures with Words. The first image people think of when Tokyo is mentioned is a majestic night view from afar with dazzling skylights and neon signs. For most individuals, that is the only image they can think of. In reality, Tokyo is just like any other busy and crowded cities in the world. It too, has days of unclear sky, places that no one visits, and stories never told. Perhaps this is the reason that drove Lee Chapman, a British photographer, to create a photography blog about this wonderful city. Started out as a two year visit in 1998, Lee decided to “stay put” in Japan – as he put it in his description – for a number of reasons. Armed with a Leica, a Nikon, and a variety of lenses, this long term resident of Tokyo aims to capture and share with the world the many moments untold of the city. While the site, predictably named Tokyo Times, doesn’t receive a lot of attention, it does serve its purpose: to show everyone that there is more to Tokyo than the busy streets, the shiny colors, or the pretty lights. At first mention of the name, the users may think Tokyo Times will be colorful with flashy effects and curly fonts as the website is about photographs of Tokyo. However, they may find the actual page’s design surprisingly simple and clean. Excluding the colors from the photographs, Lee’s website only consists of four main colors with contrasting combinations: mainly black and white, a dash of red here and there, and the grey background. One may infer that the color...
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...Into the World- The Story of Tom Brennan TECHNIQUES: First Person Narration • novel is told from the perspective of Tom • audience is privy to the private thoughts and feelings concerning all elements of his life the accident, his brother Daniel, Chrissy, himself and his future • creates an empathetic tone • draws the reader into his emotional turmoil • gain a good understanding of Tom’s feelings and can account for his actions • creates dramatic irony we know more about him than other characters do • enhances the tension and effectiveness of the narration • empathy is created as we grow fond of the protagonist who shares a story of hardship • see Tom’s maturity and growth through the development of his narration moves from using expletives and a cynical tone to a more positive one as he successfully moves into the world Non-linear Structure • narration shifts continually as Tom remembers and reflects on the tragedy which changed their lives forever • helps to highlight the impact of the accident on the characters physically, emotionally and mentally • helps audience see how the characters change • presents a juxtaposition between life before and after the accident • reinforce the normality of the family prior to the accident and the message is made more powerful as the audience realises it could be any family • flashbacks fade as the novel continues • Tom...
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...be the coolest CGI creations of the year, but they’re definitely effective ones. A final element I enjoyed about the movie is Jóhann Jóhannsson’s much buzzed about score. It is quite good. Jóhannsson’s music does a great job of underscoring the tense, serious and sometimes unsettling atmosphere of the film without being overbearing. Even though I found these positives in “Arrival,” I left the theater feeling mixed about the film. I see two major problems with the picture, both of which lie with Villeneuve and his screenwriter Eric Heisserer. This movie is frustratingly complex, but it borders on the edge of being too enigmatic and confusing (this coming from a guy who loves a good mindbender). By the time the credits started to roll, I literally had a headache from attempting to decipher some of the plot machinations and meanings in “Arrival.” That intellectual density isn’t helped by the pacing, which is an asset in suspenseful sequences but a detriment as the movie goes on. The revelations don’t come often enough to provide viewers with relief to the intellectual fog they’re living in as they watch this...
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...series of tragedies that have shaped his life. He’s moved home, and we’ll discover, has his own way of quietly practicing his Christian faith, as taught to him by his charismatic tent minister father. It’s thoroughly unbelievable that the love of his life, now a down and out saloon singer, shows up hitchhiking in his small town. The moment would play more authentic if we found out that Daley was intentionally in town with the hope of running into Cooper but was too ashamed to look him up. Flashbacks show us how Cooper came of age as part of a tent revival team led by his charismatic father and the massive yet gentle ex-con turned pianist BIG-BIG. The music is the star of the show here ranging from gospel to rockabilly. Cooper is quite literally baptized by storm and sings his first song – we’re told it’s an Elvis classic – as his muscular guardian angel BLONDIE dances on stage. We learn Blondie is an angel from the way Cooper’s father questions his son and the way he accepts the idea of someone who’s there that he can’t see. This is one of many parallels to Christian doctrine in regards to the idea of faith as the substance of things hoped...
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...youngest daughter Maggie by saying “She is not bright. Like good looks and money, quickness passed her by,” as well as stating she “was never a good singer” and “never could carry a tune” (Alice 163). These blunt observations helps the reader trust what Mama Johnson says because they are things personally significant to her and personal within her life and about her family. She does not sugar coat the truth or try to mask what is in front of her because she has no reason to hide what is her heritage because it is the life she lives everyday. When Dee finally arrives she instantly begins taking snap shots of her former home. She pushes to preserve the heritage she left behind by taking these captured shots of a heritage fading away and by literally...
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...getting increasingly fatalistic overtones’ (1972: 53). Never before have filmmakers dared to express such a harsh and unflattering view of the American life. The name ‘film noir’ was introduced by Nino Frank in his article for L’Ecran français on 28 August, 1946. He particularly emphasises The Maltese Falcon (1941), Laura (1944), Murder, My Sweet (1944), Woman in the Window (1944) and Double Indemnity (1944) (Krutnik 1991: 15). Years later it became widely recognised as an official name for crime films made in Hollywood between the early 1940s and the late 1950s, with common themes, plot devices, characterisation and aesthetics. Noir films justifying the name of the genre propose to appreciate the palette of shades of black and gray both literally and figuratively. Therefore, its main visual characteristic - a contrasting two-tone graphic image created by a low-key lighting technique known as ‘chiaroscuro lighting’. The name came from words light (chiaro) and dark (scuro) in Italian. Kathrina Glitre notes that the ‘low-key effects are crucial to the expression of the classic noir world’s moral ambivalence and paranoia, revealing as it obscures’ (2009: 12). Indeed, the combination of light and shadow often embody the desire to show the clash and interaction of ambiguous moral decisions. The nostrum for demonstrating this duality became half-lit rooms (often vertical or slanting shadows from the grids and blinds were used to set the mood), faces divided in half with shadow, contrasting...
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...Reconciliation Marriage has through centuries if not millennia been a vital key for the well-being of the average human being. Literally it's a legal contract between spouses, but in reality it's much more than. Marriage is in present day the physical and mental attraction between two who dearly love each other. Yet sometimes the spark of love begins to fade and a divorce is required. Sometimes the divorce is wished by only one of the participants; the other person might want to 'Reconciliation' is a short story written by the author Polly Clark. The short story was published in 2006. The story is about Laura; a middle-aged woman who is desperately trying to regain the contact to her soon-to-be former husband, Vernon. Laura is the character who is the medium of observations and thoughts in the story, and as such, the short story is written in a first-person narrative. The duration of the story is around a single day of work, even though Laura is thinking about her morning, she is speaking in past tense. The structure is chronologically structured and uses the 'In medias res' narrative technique. Throughout the text, the impression that Laura is self-conscious is given, and off the bat we see that she's concerned about fitting in. To dress nicely and wear matching clothes isn't really for your own sake, but to acquire recognition from your fellow human beings and thus it's a way of showing to others that you're "up-to-date" so to speak, and thus it can be concluded that Laura...
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...The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1352-2752.htm YouTube: an opportunity for consumer narrative analysis? Stefano Pace ` Universita Bocconi, Milano, Italy Abstract Purpose – The aim of the paper is to discuss a possible extension of narrative analysis to a new medium of expression of consumer behaviour, specifically YouTube. Design/methodology/approach – Marketing and consumer behaviour studies often apply narrative analysis to understand consumption. The consumer is a source of introspective narratives that are studied by scholars. However, consumption has a narrative nature in itself and consumers are also storytellers. YouTube is a new context in which subjects tell stories to an audience through self-made videos and re-edited TV programs. After defining the pros and cons of different approaches to the study of YouTube, narrative analysis is presented as a possible means of understanding YouTube. Findings – Some preliminary evidence is presented by discussing several YouTube videos. These indicate that YouTube content can be better understood as stories, rather than example of other approaches, such as visual analysis, media studies, videography, and others. Research limitations/implications – From the analysis conducted, preliminary managerial implications can be drawn. It seems unlikely that normal TV broadcasters will be substituted by YouTube videos. For the most part, YouTube content draws its sense and shared...
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...and themes to tell the readers aim one thing, to entertain. For poems, the readers gets drawn to it through the different and interesting rhythms used in writing and reading them while for short stories, the characters, the settings and the plot of the story is what makes it interesting for readers. According to literature experts, creating a good plot with interesting settings is not enough for a story to be read but it also needs the reader’s imagination. Every reader can have their own visualization of what they are reading and sometimes, what they see and the way they interpret what they read might be different from the interpretation that the author want them to have. For example, the poem entitled “The Road Not Taken” and the short narratives entitled “A Worn Path” and “Used to Live Here Once” all have the same theme but when read together by different people and asked what do they think of the stories, they might give different descriptions. These stories and poem deal with one thing which is the main character’s journey towards the unknown and how the main character made decisions that will change the course their lives forever and their loved ones. The stories are presented in different ways. For Robert Frost, he presented his poem’s main character through a first person narration and showed a plot of a man going on a journey. The story of the woman on the “Worn Path” on the other hand was being narrated on a third person basis with the woman as the narrator and at...
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...means through which an author reveals a character’s personality. Characterization may be direct or indirect. in direct characterization, the writer or a narrator tells the reader what the character is like: “ben was a quiet, serious boy.” in indirect characterization, the author shows the reader or audience member what the character is like through (1) how the character looks, (2) what the character does, (3) what the character says, (4) what the character thinks, and (5) how the character affects other characters. from these five things, the reader or audience member understands the character’s personality. climax (KlahY-maks): the point in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the conflict reaches its greatest intensity and is then resolved. the climax is also the part of a narrative when the...
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...Owl By Jackie Kay Is it possible to live in the past back when you were ten when you really are in the middle age? Is it healthy to be stuck in the childhood and not wanting to move on? That is what the main character in Jackie Kay’s short story Owl does. This essay will focus on the narrative technique, the contrasts and what the title can symbolize. The short story is written by a first person narrator which in this case means that the story is told through one of the main characters, Barn’s/Anita’s, eyes. It is written in past tense and is focused on Barn’s angle of the story and the reader experiences the events through her. The reader is for the reason of that trusting the narrator because one is made to feel closer and friendlier with the narrator because the reader and the narrator look through the same eyes. This dominates not only the point of view but also the plot. Some of the text is a flashback from Barn’s and Tawn’s childhood where we get to know them as children. There are many contrasts in the short story Owl. One of them is the contrast between being a child and a grown up. The story is divided in two. The first part of the text focuses on the childhood of Barn and Tawn when they were nine and ten years old. The second part takes place when they are adults and in their forties. They are stuck in the past even though they have grown up: “And maybe after that we could go back to our names, to calling ourselves our real names. (Though I doubt we’d...
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...The Gift of the Magi Themes Love "Gift of the Magi" is the story of a poor, young couple whose love for each other is the most important thing in their lives. Such is their love that they're led to sacrifice their most valuable possessions to find Christmas gifts for each other. The warm home they make together contrasts with the drabness of their poverty and the dreary world outside. Their love seems to know no bounds, though Della (the wife) worries about how her sacrifice will affect her husband because of how it affects her looks. If ever there were a story with the message that all you need to be happy is love, this is it. Sacrifice The two main characters in "Gift of the Magi" are a husband and wife who give up their most precious possessions to be able to afford gifts for each other on Christmas Eve. The story seems to be all about sacrifice. We watch Della go through the process of deciding to make the sacrifice and going through with it, only to discover that her husband has made the same sacrifice. The story's narrator assures us that in their willingness to give up all they have, they have proven themselves the wisest of all gift-givers. It might remain unclear, though, exactly what their sacrifice has accomplished, or how it has affected them. Wealth In many ways, "Gift of the Magi" is a story about what it means for something to be valuable. Does something's value lie in how much money it is worth? Or are other things more valuable than money? The main characters...
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