Allusions In The Book 1

In the novel, “The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton” allusions played a big part in the book. An example of this is when Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally and go to Dairy Queen and engorged themselves in barbeque and banana splits. “We stopped at a Dairy Queen and the first thing I got was a Pepsi. Johnny and I gorged on barbeque sandwiches and banana splits,” (Hinton 83). The reason the Author used Dairy Queen as an allusion is because Dairy Queen is a well known restaurant and it came out in the 1940s, so it was a still kinda new thing and very popular to go to.

Some movies have strong connections to famous books, epics, or myths. Often times, there will be many strong allusions to different epics, but there will be few weak allusions. In Joel and Ethan Coen's O’Brother Where Art Thou, The movie has strong allusion with the plot, hero qualities, and the minor characters of The Odyssey,

In the story, Lord of the Flies, there are many biblical allusions; Simon represents Jesus, the pig’s head represents Satan or rather their satanic sides, Jack represents Judas, and the island represents the Garden of Eden. Through out this novel these allusions play large parts in the story and ideals place in the story.

The speaker in Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'; is a man who is addressing a silent listener, who happens to be his mistress. In this dramatic monologue the speaker tries to explain his feelings to his mistress. The speaker uses many allusions to empires and other objects, events and ideas that are not directly related to his feelings, in order to explain how he feels. He uses these allusions to exaggerate his feelings in order to clearly show them. After reading over the poem once, you get a sense of what the speaker is feeling. Upon further analysis of the poem you realize that the allusions used in the poem, are in fact, what makes this poem so interesting.

In the short story, “Usher II,” the author, Ray Bradbury, uses allusion to help the reader visualize the setting of the story due to the fact that the allusions of the author places in the set out a rather dark and disturbing setting. The story is set on the beautiful red planet everyone knows as Mars. There is actually human life within that planet, the life there is fresh and healthy, as well as being just like Earth. But, there is one difference of this planet’s lifestyle and our original home’s lifestyle. The government, who is controlling both the planet and the people of Mars, decides to prohibit the reading of books, and as well burning the books, purging off of their beautiful ink-stained pages. But, all of this changes one day within the life of Mars, as a man named William Stendahl decides to take a change to this irrational lifestyle. You see, William Stendahl was the only one who has read books on Earth, and he still does have books on Mars. But, William Stendahl is a rather unique fellow, as he has a rather immense obsession with the “Prince of Horror,” Edgar Allan Poe. Of course, this man would make references to Mr. Poe. In the beginning, when Stendahl was talking to Mr. Bigelow, an architect responsible for creating his home, he explains to him how he wants his house to be just like the “House of Usher.” He says, “The House of Usher, planned, bought, paid for. Wouldn’t Mr. Poe be delighted?” (Poe 1). For those who read the short story, “The Fall of the House

In Robert Alter’s literary analysis of A Tale of Two Cities, The Demons of History in Dickens’s Tale, his central emphasis converges with the ideal that the novel tends to stray from his preceding works. Alter essentially deems A Tale of Two Cities as an “uncharacteristic expression of his genius (94),” which he believes is a result of his distinctive writing style, deviating from his jollyness, humor, and warmth. He primarily believes that Dickens attempts to convey a strong sense of emotion by means of melodramatic storytelling to “persist in a kind of splendid, self-transcending unevenness (94).” Additionally, Alter claims Dickens utilizes a distinguishable contrast between the elements of “picturesque” and “dramatic immediacy” to enhance Dickens’s focus on

Karl Kraus once said, “Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country”(IZ Corrupt Quotes). Aldous Huxley is British author of, Brave New World, where he created a dystopian society led by a corrupt government. In this novel, people are birthed as nearly identical embryos in bottles and conditioned to remove their desires, the aspiration for human relationships and their emotions. The citizens of this World State are separated into castes that they are born into.

The author Lois Lowry grew up all around the world when she was a child due to her dad being in the U.S. Army. Since father was a dentist in the army and traveled the world she had gone to many countries which inspired her writing. At one point she had lived in Tokyo where she went to an American school on the base during her junior high years. One of her literary works later in her life is, The Giver, which had won a Newbery Award. In The Giver, the setting is a utopian society where the characters have no feelings, no memories, and no choices that they are able to make on their own. The names of the characters also have hidden meanings and relations behind them using allusion to recreate a religous matter along with how the novel

Harry Mulisch once said, that “he did not just write about World War II, he was WWII”. He uses this mentality in a lot of his writing to allude to himself in the works. Being that during WWII he was just a boy, he saw many terrible events at a young age. A works that is a prime example of this is The Assault, a novel about a young boy who, lives through a terrible night, in which his family was murdered and his house burnt down. In The Assault, the novel itself is an allusion to his life. In The Assault, Harry Mulisch uses allusion to bring cultural and contextual content to the works.

In the book Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, the author uses allusion to show the parallels and differences between the Old Testament story of God and Adam to Frankenstein and the creature. Shelley uses the allusion to establish that when actions are made impetuously ghastly consequences follow. As creators of creatures, both God and Frankenstein are similar in the aspects of being seen as parental figures to their creations. Also, Adam and the creature are comparable because they are both the first of their kind and of their initial innocence.

As proclaimed by Shmoop editors, “When authors refer to other great works, people, and events. It’s usually not accidental” (Shmoop Editorial Team). In the story Brave New World by Aldous Huxley there is a profuse amount of allusions throughout the entirety of the novel. There are three main forms of allusion that is superior to the rest. Huxley uses literary, Native American, and religious allusions throughout the whole of the novel. These three forms of allusion help tie the story together by bringing into view how different the two societies are within the story.

In the short story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is a certain uncertainty, deviousness, and a riddle of wrongdoing living within the citizens of Salem. Young Goodman Brown, a very naive person, is ruined when he realizes the hypocrisy of his religion as he witnesses the truth in the middle of Salem woods. His own people worshipping a being that is not God! Ironically, when Brown confronts his fellow townspeople, he is angered by their responses; they seem to have no recollection of what occurred in the woods. Thus leaving him in a state of insanity, where all Brown senses around him are lies. The natural impulse to keep secrets and lies can harm others. This is embodied in Young Goodman Brown, who goes from a typical puritan to an unkind, judgmental, depressed man.

J.K. Rowling uses many biblical allusions in her Harry Potter series. The most prominent one is found in her last book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Harry’s parents tombstone read, “The last enemy to be destroyed is death.” This is directly quoted from Corinthians 15:26 in the bible. It’s important to the storyline because every Harry Potter book was based off of his parent’s death and his struggle without them. He had to conquer death, and live passed it. At first, he wasn’t sure what that quote meant, which made him angry; however, as he slowly came to terms with his loss, he understood what it meant. This biblical allusion is connected to chapter 7 of Foster’s book regarding biblical allusions. Foster writes, “Many modern and postmodern

Upon first glance, Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” presents a simple seduction, as the speaker uses the passage of time in a straightforward attempt to get his mistress to sleep with him. Using the threat of inevitable death as a way of urging his mistress to seize the day and have sex with him, the speaker makes time appear all-powerful and controlling for much of the poem. Marvell explores the theme of time differently in “An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland,” as the speaker of this poem describes Cromwell’s overthrow of the ancient order by suggesting that he overthrows the rules and workings of time itself. This interpretation of time as an entity that can be manipulated influences the portrayal of time in “To His

Ulysses is one of the most complex and structured novels of modernist literature, and the analogy to Homer's Odyssey is revealed at various levels, such as the similarity between Leopold Bloom and Ulysses, the similarity between Molly Bloom and Penelope, or the various themes which exist in both works. The author often mentioned the complex construction of the novel and argued that he had introduced so many riddles and enigmas, that the professors would continue to discuss his book for years to come. In his own words, he has: