Clockwork Angel Analysis

While it has already been made clear that the use of language by Stephen Crane helps facilitate the meaning of the story, there are ways in which it can be changed to reflect the time period of Cassandra Clare 's Clockwork Angel, without taking away from the overall message. This is accomplished by making the majority of the changes solely to the world building sections, rather than the dialog itself. Take for instance this section:

Evenings during the week he took her to see plays in which the brain-clutching heroine was rescued from the palatial home of her guardian, who is cruelly after her bonds, by the hero with the beautiful sentiments. The latter spent most of his time out at soak in pale-green snow storms, busy with a nickel-plated

However, Stephen Crane may even diverge from his own time period 's standards in language as reviews of his work at the time of publication included such statements as, "Mr. Crane has yet to learn that grotesque combinations of words and phrases do not constitute the basis of literary style" (Monteiro 101). This is by no means the correct opinion of his work, but it does show that Crane did, according to a contemporary, not always adhere to standard practices. He was, however, praised by another individual as "A master of slum slang,” saying that, “His dialogues are surprisingly effective and natural" (Monteiro

As we saw, Clare makes a point of using words that have fallen out of practice to give the reader the sense that they are really within a world from the past. The issue is, doing so can hinder the comprehension of the reader. Rather than using such words, it seems more beneficial to focus on using words that are more commonly in use, but that are still elegant. It is isn 't about simplifying the piece as some may see modern English as doing, but it is about not complicating things for the reader just to do