Elizabeth Bowen 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 since the leaving of her former lover during World War I. Kathleen's lover is had been presumed dead after months of being missing in action and she has moved on. She is now married to a William Dover and living the countryside with her immediate

Almost every person knows someone who has served in a war, whether it may be a sibling, a parent, or a friend. After an individual comes back from their service in a war, he or she usually has changed as a person, either positively, or most of the time negatively. In All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr shows through characters seeing death, characters that are not in combat, and characters that are soldiers in war, that war impacts individuals negatively, despite their backgrounds and differences.

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 marked with the present date. Curious to know if the caretaker is back in town and a little annoyed by the letter seeming to have no urgency in being mailed to her, she proceeds upstairs to her old bedroom to read it. In utter shock and complete

The mouldy, rotting, brown house stood in front of Emily, only fear keeping her feet planted to the ground. Moaning and creaking noises being projected from the house. The grass was damp from the evening fog and every time she took a step the mud squelched. The bottom step squeaked as she applied pressure with her foot, she let out a sigh of relief as the old structure hadn’t swallowed her up. The door, slightly off colour from the rest of the house, loomed over her like a giant as he reached for the brass door handle. A shiver ran through her body like an electric current, the musty smell of a house that had been long abandoned filled Emily’s nose. It was dim and uninviting. The furniture dusty and old, looking as if it would crumble to dust if she was to touch it. Mould ate away at

The battle with love is a major struggle to even the most pure souls. The obsessive nature controlling ones mind can cause people to act in demonic ways. In Demon Lover written by Elizabeth Bowen, the author portrays the short story in a setting surrounded by distress and chaos. The gloomy background followed the protagonist Kathleen Drover throughout the entire story, portraying her twisted fate. Like this story, the Scottish ballad of Demon Lover, whose author is unknown, had the protagonist in a similar predicament. The stories relate in the same plot and some of the main similarities include that both women were being stalked and hunted down, both women had families away kept away from their ex lovers, and both women end up with their lovers

Carol Karlsen 's "The Devil in the Shape of a Woman” was written to provide the reader with an understanding of the role of the “witch” in colonial New England. During the early colonial period, pilgrims lived in a male-dominated society and the classical witch hunts were conducted in an attempt to maintain this societal structure. Since these hunts were placed under a religious guise, it was simple for these individuals to act as if they were maintaining the safety and justice of society. Karlsen explains that in many instances, women who were labelled as witches were often females that had managed to acquire great economic and social status and society. In fear of these women, the neighborhood targeted them and called them witches to weaken their power. Independent of guilt, women who were accused of witchcraft could not possibly recovered. If they claimed their innocence, they would be stoned or burned to death because the counsel would decide that they were not being truthful. If they admitted to their guilt, their place in society would be marred and they would be embarrassed for partaking in these evil acts. Through this violence, men have been able to maintain their place in Puritan society. In her book, Karlsen aims to provide the reader new insight into the witch trials, demonstrating the societal, rather than religious causes for this well-known historic tragedy.

Over the past few decades, the war changed everyone’s perspective. According to NCBI, 61% civilians suffer from psychological disorders caused by wars. Specifically, two books, Night and Persepolis, talks about the author experiences during the war and their struggles. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, documents his childhood when he was maltreated by the Nazis, and Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, share her experiences during the Iraq-Iran war of how it change her. War changes childhood because of near-death experiences, family departure, and witness horrific acts of violence.

War can be and has been proven to be a deeply scarring experience for many soldiers. Evidently, nothing can prepare them for warfare, seeing close friends die, and narrowly escaping death themselves. Yet, the worst part of it all is having to live with those memories for a lifetime and the inability to forget. “But the thing about remembering is that you don 't forget” (O’brien 34, 1998). The war which is fought in the minds of soldiers lasts a lifetime, and its effects stretch far beyond the actual battle that is being fought. War can significantly affect a soldier mentally, as seen in the novel “The things they carried” by Tim O 'brien, an interview with Richard Dlugoz, and the poem “Coming Home” by Joe Wheeler.

Modern fascination of war-related trauma in World War I and relating themes are prevalent in Pat Barker’s “Regeneration.” This example of historical fiction highlights the types of psychological damage brought

In the excerpt from Ann Petry’s novel, The Street, Petry establishes Lutie Johnson’s relationship to the urban setting. Petry sets a third-person omniscient pov to capture the harshness of the wind, which is the main antagonist of the excerpt. The narrator successfully captures the bitterness of the wind by using descriptive imagery and vivid personality.

At the end, women would return home individually, with no grand welcome awaiting them. Many of these women had experienced the terrors and trauma of the war, and had to find a way to adjust with these awful horrible memories while finding their place back in a normal life. Many felt the best way to deal with this was to fade away into isolation, found it difficult to speak to family and friends, felt anger and had

It tells how she saw brother fought brother family against family. It tells of the men she cared for and their injuries; including but not limited to, bullet wounds and amputations. She lived through the war and got married and had 3 children. The next three accounts take place in World War II, the first is of a pilot of a bombing plain. The pilot lead bombing raids over Germany and helped smuggle people from Denmark and Sweden to Allied countries. He was awarded the King’s Medal for Courage by Britain and many other awards in America. The next account is of a minor league baseball player who became a spy in the war. He spent his time in Germany relaying information on Germany's intentions of Nuclear warfare. He returned to the US to report the Germans were no where near manufacturing an atomic bomb. After the War he went to work for the CIA. His baseball card was the only card to be displayed in the CIA’s headquarters. Next, an american woman in France fed and housed two American airmen shot down outside the town in which she was living. She nursed the men to health, but they were captured and held as prisoners of war and spent eleven months

In this book A Demon's Promise by Kristie Cook, the main characters, Alexis and Tristan are living in this menacing dramatic life. Keeping in mind that Alexis is just a nineteen year old girl, and is being chased down by the Daemoni who are trying stop them. Alexis isn’t fully aware of her situation, her mother had kept many secrets about her family and also about her future from her. Alexis and Tristan fell deeply in love, ironically this had already been planned way before she was born, apparently there souls were created for each other. Although, they do get married out of love, and ultimately keeping the Amadis powerful and enduring. Tristan was created by the Daemoni to destroy the Amadis people, but tristan has an overwhelming amount

In Elizabeth Bowen’s short story “The Demon Lover,” although it may seem like a ghost tale, there is more to this. As the story goes on you start to question yourself about ‘is this really a ghost story?’ “The Demon Lover” is about a woman who discovers paranoia which is a mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution. Kathleen Drover is better understood as a disturbed schizophrenic woman whose psychosis eventually drives her to complete madness.

“The Demon Lover” is a short story in which the author, Elizabeth Bowen, creates a story about a women whose worst nightmare lives within her own mind. The protagonist, Mrs. Drover, returns home to a desolate scene that is indicative of the state of mind that she is in. Upon entering and checking on the house, she observes a mysterious letter whose origin is unknown. This ultimately sends Mrs. Drover into a state of panic and causes her to become increasingly mentally unstable. As a result, Mrs. Drover frantically tries to escape from her assumed reality by leaving town but becomes trapped in a taxi that she is unable to escape.