Analysis Of The Novel ' Mothers Of Invention

January 20, 2008 PSYCHOANALYTIC ANALYSIS OF LOOKING FOR ALASKA It seems natural to think about novels in terms of dreams or psychoanalytical realities. Like dreams, novels are fictions, inventions of the mind that, though based on reality, are by definition not exactly and literally true. Conversely, dreams may have some truth to tell but like novels their truth must be interpreted before it can be grasped. Such is the case with John Green's young adult novel, Looking for Alaska. It holds many

" In fact, in each of his novels there is at least one character from his native region. This can be compared to director Alfred Hitchcock's practice of self cameos on screen." It is true, that we can find some parallels between Vonnegut's books and his life. The book Cat's Cradle is no exception. The Hoenikker family of the novel, consists of an elder son, middle daughter and the youngest child is a boy, just the

The character I chose was from a book titled Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. I found Shylock to be an interesting character since there was a tremendous change with regard to his character. At the beginning on the book, Shylock was depicted as a man who was cruel and selfish. The plot of the story illustrates how people hated him because he did not show mercy to any person who default his payments. His cruel character is depicted when he intentionally lend Antonio cash knowing that he

In Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, one major critical theory revolves around PsychoAnalytic criticism. The novel revolves around this critical theory because in Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein, a scientist, rejecting old-fashioned theories and credulity, begins to research and makes a gigantic human structure monster and gives him life. However, his invention goes wrong as the monster behaves uncontrollably and bringing deaths and destroying Victor and his family and many other

scholars too readily use her innovations in style and technique as the starting point for critical analysis, focusing largely on the ways in which her prose represents a departure from the conventional novel in both style and content. To simply discuss the extent of her unique style, however, is to overlook the role of tradition in her creation of a new literary identity. In To the Lighthouse, Woolf's invention reveals itself instead as a reinvention, a recasting of the conventional through the use of

and acceptance to who he really knows he is. A white, homosexual man, David finds himself stuck in a certain personality one that is straight, masculine and white. An American ideal which he knows does not define who he really is. David devotes the novel trying to outpace and cast-off his past and features of his individuality which he wishes to forget. Through David's

Martel is the real author of the novel Life of Pi. The story begins with an Author's note, narrated by an anonymous author figure. This creates the illusion that the book is real, when in fact it is fictional. The italicises passages are the voice of the narrative author who is writing a story which is told in Pi's own words. These passages provide a description of how he learned about Pi, as well as his interviews with Pi in the present day. The story has three narrative layers: Yann Martel, author

Addie narrates a significantly shorter portion of the novel than the rest of the Bundren family (only one chapter, in fact), and her death occurs well before the story’s conclusion. For these reasons, earlier criticism evaluated Addie not as an individual, but in relation to the other members of the Bundren clan, specifically, the men. Overall, Addie’s importance to the novel was grievously underestimated by early critics such as Edwin Muir, who observes:

ORIAN LITERATURE Victorian literature was produced during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), so Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily and Anne) are bright representatives of the Victorian period because their famous novels such as “Jane Eyre” (1847, Charlotte Brontë), “Wuthering Heights” (1847, Emily Brontë), “Vilette” (1853, Charlotte Brontë), “The Professor” (1857, Charlotte Brontë), appeared during the Victorian period. Other leading novelists of the Victorian period were Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

To truly understand a great novel and its author, the reader must dig deep inside the life of the author and why he or she wrote the novel. In this case, one must delve into the lives of Aldous Huxley and Ursula Le Guin to understand why Brave New World and The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas are written in the ways that they are. In both the 30’s and the 70’s, the two time periods that these stories were written, America was undergoing severe turmoil. Both the depression and the Vietnam conflict