Fergus Mac-Ivor is a character drawn by a master's pencil, from his first introduction in the wilds of the Highlands to the final scene before his execution, all the various features which the author conceived are fully expressed. Even in his last moments, while we shudder at his wild and intriguing ambition, we admire his original and powerful genius, we honour his generous and intrepid fidelity. If feminine softness, joined to the most romantic patriotism, can delight our readers, of Flora they will feel themselves the devoted admirers. Of Rose Bradwardine we read more than we see; the sweetness of her character and the silent warmth of her affection for our hero render her worthy of him.
It is in the technique of characterization that the
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Scott seems different in his novel, he has given many poems in it because he was a better poet than a prose writer. Metaphors are there in great number.
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Morality: again, more subjective, relative, provisional and ambiguous, less authoritative and 'public', more local and shifting
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New narrative modes which are anti- or post-Realist: the one-day novel, the use of myth as a structuring principle, the reliance on fable, allegory, dream or diary forms, a stream of consciousness techniques. Waverley is composed of all these fragments, He narrates some myths of that era, a story of an elderly witch, Janet Gellatley.
To conclude the assignment I give some one-line characteristics which can clearly be seen in Waverley Novels which makes it as Modern Novel.
• Another common characteristic of modernism is the decline of the importance of religion. Many authors decided to replace traditional religion with a new form of symbolism, which was often pagan in origin……………………
• Chapters broken into fragments
• Sentences dissolved into the streams and flows of interior psychic life.
• Traditional narration replaced with subjective narrative
• Consciousness” is the modern novels signature field of
Metaphors are widely used throughout poetry to not only creatively express an idea or an emotion, but to also saturate the meaning of a poem by arousing feelings. Certain comparisons between one concept and another may unsettle or enlighten a reader, or they could even possibly do both, as some metaphors can even bring clarity to a concept for the reader. Some argue that the stronger a poem makes you feel, the better it is. This opinion applies well to poets who can creatively express similarities that could appeal to mostly anyone in varying ways. Anne Stevenson's, "The Demolition" is nearly an entire metaphor from start to finish. She uses many
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is more general a reflection of values espoused within society than a decline in morals.
The tales were rediscovered around 1880 inspiring the Irish literary revival in romantic fiction by writers such as Lady Augusta Gregory and the poetry and dramatic works of W.B. Yeats. These works wer...
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The idea of this theory now seems blatant, but before the era of Modern art it was not produced to demand attention to itself, but to commemorate figurative forms and precisely portray things that had some source in reality. Modernism shows us how paint is paint, how that medium is the reality of the painting and unlike the Renaissance, where they solely portrayed religious scenes and stories to entertain their viewers. The Modernists are using that as a platform to revert their style which stops us from viewing their paintings as a narrative and instead has us see the physicality of the painting by using our initiative to contemplate what the image is telling us, whereas the Renaissance paintings told us what we were seeing and the medium was nothing more than a single factor in their paintings as well is the medium being something that they would have had to fund. Not as much thought would have gone into the Renaissance paintings in comparison to the Modernists, the reasons for this is that the Renaissance artist would have had stories, literature and previous artist’s artworks. The main influence for them was purely biblical events whereas the Modernists had to have thought deeply about their approach to their work; the way they were to paint,
The main characteristic of the new literary form of the novel according to Ian Watt is "truth to individual experience" (4) and its new shape is created by a focus on the individual character. He is presented in a specific definition of time and space. The second section of this paper will show how far this is realized in both of the novels. In the third section I want to analyze the characters' individualism in connection with the claim to truth and their complexity in description.
To begin, “On Morality'; is an essay of a woman who travels to Death Valley on an assignment arranged by The American Scholar. “I have been trying to think, because The American Scholar asked me to, in some abstract way about ‘morality,’ a word I distrust more every day….'; Her task is to generate a piece of work on morality, with which she succeeds notably. She is placed in an area where morality and stories run rampant. Several reports are about; each carried by a beer toting chitchat. More importantly, the region that she is in gains her mind; it allows her to see issues of morality as a certain mindset. The idea she provides says, as human beings, we cannot distinguish “what is ‘good’ and what is ‘evil’';. Morality has been so distorted by television and press that the definition within the human conscience is lost. This being the case, the only way to distinguish between good or bad is: all actions are sound as long as they do not hurt another person or persons. This is similar to a widely known essay called “Utilitarianism'; [Morality and the Good Life] by J.S. Mills with which he quotes “… actions are right in the proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.';
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Modernism developed as a way to reach out to human beings. The effects of World War I left many people struggling to pick up the broken pieces of their previous lives, and left many people wondering about the future of mankind. Modernist writers attempted to bring together those broken individuals with relatable characters and real-life narratives. Modernist writers knew that the ‘little things’ in life were often the most impactful and emphasized simple acts such as smelling some flowers, or eating a pastry, because they knew their readers could relate. They acknowledged the displacement that their readers felt and worked to connect with those readers in effort to establish some sort of connection, and restore humankind.
Reid incorporates various opinions and approaches in his chapter concerning the `essential qualities' of shorter fiction writing. He is accommodating to the views of previous generations about the conventions of writing shorter fiction and how they began. The strict regimes pioneered by Brander Mathews and Edgar Allen Poe about 'unity of impression' are granted respect, but are gently revealed to be
Sir Walter Scott is considered to be „one of the most delightful figures in English literature and probably the most famous of all the Scotsmen who have ever lived“(Fletcher 2002, p. 127). This Scottish writer is famous for his historical novels which were very popular in the nineteenth century, especially his work that is our subject to discuss in the essay – Waverley. Scott himself was a descendant of one fighting clan and knew a number of people who took part in Jacobite rebellion. This helped him to depict the events better. He enforces past events by the use of imagination and magnification. Scott introduces in his work „Waverley or ‘tis sixty years since” a protagonist who has many romantic features. The setting of the plot, the characters and the events that are going to happen represent romanticism. Sir Walter Scott published Waverley in 1814 anonymously. This work brought him a great success and popularity at that time (Sanders 1994, p. 375). There exist many opinions and critics about this work. Some consider his work a very long and boring story. They find the description of places and author’s style of writing long-winded. There are some passages about which even author claims that are lengthy. As it was part of my compulsory literature, I had to read it. I would not have started to read this work if I was not forced but I found it very interesting, though. Nevertheless, it brought closer look at history and culture of Scottish people, political and historical situation in eighteenth century. The nature of the Highlands and characters that are depicted in this work are truly fascinating for a reader.
When considering morality, worthy to note first is that similar to Christian ethics, morality also embodies a specifically Christian distinction. Studying a master theologian such as St. Thomas Aquinas and gathering modern perspectives from James Keenan, S. J. and David Cloutier serve to build a foundation of the high goal of Christian morality. Morality is a primary goal of the faith community, because it is the vehicle for reaching human fulfillment and happiness. Therefore, great value can be placed on foundations of Christian morality such as the breakdown of law from Aquinas, the cultivation of virtues, the role of conscience in achieving morality, and the subject of sin described by Keenan.