Natural Events: 'The Demon Lover'; The events in Elisabeth Bower's 'The Demon Lover'; can be explained naturally. The story being as vague as it is leads most to concur with the title of the story and imagine that there is a supernatural aspect in the story. In the short story, Kathleen has returned to her home in London that has been abandoned during the bombing of World War II. She is not expected, yet she finds a letter addressed to her on a table in the hallway. Twenty-five years has past…

Victor Vran is a demon infested isometric shooter taking place during the Victorian period. The protagonist is Victor Vran a demon hunter located in the city of Zagoravia. As the demon infestation gets worse our demon hunters grow thin. Victor, while unclear of his motives, makes it clear that he needs to help the city. Unfortunately, Victor is harassed by a voice in his head that has ulterior motives. Victor Vans ' story is satisfying to say the least. I 'd consider it novel. The plot unfolds well…

Alex Cardenas 9/15/2010 Writing for College Literally Analysis “Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway. “ What Isabelle Holland said can be tied to Mrs. Drover’s thoughts in the story “The Demon Lover”. The author, Elizabeth Bowen wrote this story in 1945, inspired by her experiences of World War II and the aerial bombardments; they reminded her about how people were overwhelmed by the events happening during World War I. And in this case how Mrs. Drover…

Unsettling Language in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Demon Lover Elizabeth Bowen retells a popular folk tale in her short story, "The Demon Lover." The title suggests that the plot consists of a woman being confronted by a demon lover from her past. Bowen does not stray far from this original tale. Instead of originality, Bowen's prose relies on the use of subtleties to keep the story interesting. The story's subtleties feed us questions that continually grab our interest. Bowen immediately begins…

brief view on The Demon Lover, from New Historicist point of view. The first step, represents three methodologies which are necessary in which unlocking the text according to New Historicism. The second step develops each methodology with reference to the text of the work and depicts different views in this regard. Since New Historicists view an aesthetic work as a social production, a text's meaning resides for them in the cultural system, composed of the Demon Lover from New Historicist…

Hornby suggests that "Pinter 's characters should be phenomenologically bracketed; we should experience them here and now rather than speculate about their factual pasts"(176). The term "bracketed" refers to Husserl who "did not insist that we reject all hypothetical constructs of the world, but rather that, in examining anything, we at least temporarily ignore all such constructs, and instead intuitively scrutinize the actual phenomena we perceive. This process he called 'bracketing…

Some viewers see Elizabeth Bowen’s “The Demon Lover” as a ghost story. Robert L. Calder essay on “The Demon Lover” gives an explanation of the story: he sees it as an allegory representing a death of World War I and has had an effect on people a second war in their life. As Kathleen Drover came to the abandoned house, the narrator is quickly to remind that the dangerous destructive war had taken place. Outside, she sees “familiar street unused channel, an unfamiliar peculiarity had slited up” that…

In "The Demon Lover," by Elizabeth Bowen, Kathleen Drover returns to London from her house in the country in order to gather some things that she and her husband had abandoned during the bombings of the war. It is a humid, rainy day in late August and her once familiar street is now mostly deserted. The caretaker of her house is supposed to be out of town for a week and her arrival is assumed unknown. Mrs. Drover enters the old musty house and discovers a letter addressed to herself and it is…

Love can purely take an over a man, and drive him crazy. Robert Browning, demonstrates “Porphyria’s Lover" as a terrifying love story given from a lunatic 's point of view. It is the story of a man who is so obsessed with Porphyria that he decides to keep her for himself. In this poem however, we find that this poem is more than just about a lunatic, and his obsession, but rather find ourselves in the midst of a poem more depth. First, we can see how the role of nature can express the mood of the…

META-DRAMA IN HAROLD PINTER 'S THE LOVER (1962) AND ALFRED FARAG 'S GAWAZ ALA WARAQET TALAQ (MARRIAGE ON A DIVORCE CONTRACT) (1973) The main aim of this paper is to study the concept of meta-drama in Harold Pinter 's The Lover (1962) and Alfred Farag 's Gawz Ala Waraqet Talaq (Marriage on A Divorce Contract) (1973). This paper will first examine the apparent reality of each play as a whole. This picture will be mainly based on the impressions, or prejudices, which the audience carries…