The Enigma by John Fowles Essay

Another theme, personal identity, is seen throughout all of the characters in the book. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of

MP’s were unpaid for most of the nineteenth century and had to own land, although the property qualification ended in the 1850’s but only wealthy upper class men could be MP’s. The working class could not afford to give up their job to be a politician and that meant that their views and needs were poorly represented compared to the ones of the wealthy. This is clearly not democratic and wasn’t changed until 1911 when MP’s began to be paid allowing the right to become and MP to everyone

What are their outstanding qualities? Does the author give any indication as to how or why the character developed these qualities?

Choose a character out of the novel; describe the characters personality and placement in the novel.

• What are the characters’ emotions, attitudes, and behaviors? What do these indicate to the reader about the character?

Throughout the book I felt connected to one character, that character was George. George and I share similar qualities and our lifestyles can relate. One major characteristic I found in George is his ability

Despite J.R. Booth’s discreet personality he still received the highest regard in the society. The former prime minister, Arthur Meighen, had said that Booth’s “quiet generosity, and his sincerity made him an outstanding gentleman among his fellows”.

During the inter-war period, Simmons worked as a Daily Herald organizer and an inspector in a car factory but also experienced spells of unemployment. He was elected to Birmingham City Council in 1921 as a member of the minority Labour Group. Simmons was considered a firebrand by political opponents and allies alike for his uncompromising position on issues such as unemployment, homelessness and temperance. Intermittently, between 1921 and 1945, he served on the council for over fifteen years. First elected to Parliament in 1929 for Birmingham Erdington, he remained loyal to the Labour Party when two of his political patrons, Oswald Mosley and Ramsey Macdonald, did not. Generally supportive of Mosley until the latter formed the New Party, Simmons was anguished by Macdonald’s decision to form the National Government in 1931. As an MP, the rights of ex-servicemen of all ranks remained one of his priorities; a disabled private soldier himself, he utilized his experience to campaign for others. He also spoke in favour of disarmament, limitations on military expenditure and support for the League of Nations. The strength of his convictions on these issues led him to defy the Labour Whip on occasion; in March 1930 he spoke in favour and voted for an amendment to the Air estimates that would have virtually abolished the Air Force.

Radical Whigs – “made attacks on the use of patronage and bribes by the king 's ministers. They warned citizens to be on guard for possible corruption.”

He is like Lesia; a hard worker and a proud person all together. He is handsome, tall, with dark hair and big muscles. He is Lesia’s older brother and he helped her decide to go to Canada. He is determined and goes to jail for trying to get into the army (when he is an enemy of the state) later in the story.

He did so through urging them that their struggle was the same and that the governments (or powers that be); by pitting them against one another, compromise their potential strength as a whole. Watson succeeded in mobilizing roughly a million and a half Populist voters. Watson championed the ‘peasant’ farmer class and supported African American’s right to vote. He sought to end African American disenfranchisement (implemented through such means as literacy tests and poll

Hyam, R. (2006). ‘Rugged and tangled difficulties: the Churchill and Eden governments and the end o

Oswald Mosley was a man “intellectually and temperamentally a product of his aristocratic upbringing and the emotional aftermath of the First World War” (Beadle 328). During this time period, he influenced his surroundings with distinct political views and actions throughout Britain. Oswald Mosley influenced his time being a Member of Parliament however discounted many opportunities for action blinded by the search of personal power. This blindness led to a fascist approach towards government with views of leadership, resembling control and courage, and actions facing the problems of the new modern world.

The literary element of characterization is used to show and describe many of the characters in the novel to show many of the positive and negative changes within the character. With Marlow, he was a British seaman

All of these main characters shared a lot of common attributes. The first and most important attribute was trying to overcome multiple