Evelyn Nesbit

The second book of Evelyn Waugh’s book Brideshead Revisited is, significantly, entitled “A Twitch Upon the Thread.” The meaning of this title reflects on many characters in this book, but particularly on Charles Ryder, the narrator and main character. In Book I of this novel the characters generally become more and more distanced from their faith. Book II is entitled “A Twitch Upon the Thread” because this is when Charles and other characters start to find their faith again and get pulled back into

Abstract: Walt Whitman and Puran Singh are the two great poets belonging to two different cultures. Whitman inherited western cultural problematic and Puran Singh Eastern Indian and in particular the Punjabi cultural problematic. These two cultures differ from each other in many ways yet one finds a cord of identity both thematic and structural between the poetry of Whitman and Puran Singh. The present study analyzes the nature of mysticism in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Puran Singh and brings

Evelyn Waugh lived in the time of the World Wars, which greatly influenced his writing and the actions of his characters. People were affected by WWI in multiple ways. They often suffered a lack of confidence in themselves and in the state of the world. In Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh’s characters often misuse and take advantage of technology, which helps to depict the loss of identity and emotional connection in the wake of World War I. Technology demonstrated a disconnect, particularly an emotional

Even when individual parties are detailed, descriptions hold no more excitement or beauty. Whilst Anne Fleming admits ‘Evelyn sadly confided that he got no pleasure from natural beauty’, his description of the airship party focuses upon how new modern beauty defies natural beauty. ‘Acres of inflated silk blotted out the sky’ and ‘lights of other cars arriving lit up the uneven grass.’ This holds a certain nostalgia for pastoral beauty, and with the country landscapes of Hetton and Brideshead casting

Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh was born in 1903. He is not considered to be a distinguished novelist but his writing is notable because they satirise much that was bizarre in English society. His father was a publisher and his first novel, Decline and fall, was published in 1928. It is a satire on the preparatory school industry. It is in the style and humour of Charles Dickens. Evelyn Waugh achieves his purpose through exaggeration. He paints characters

Human life is a blend of myriad of emotions. Our emotions add facets to our humanity – they give us dimensions and make us the social, emotional and intellectual beings we are. People go through both good and rough times. While some persevere through these times, some crack and acquire fissures. In the novella “Franny and Zooey” by J.D. Salinger, Franny Glass is undergoing a similar identity and existential crisis which severely derails her life. Disenchanted by the superficiality of the world surrounding

Griffiths also uses two, deeply contrasting ideas to highlight his personal political or social stance, as the characters of Eddie Waters and the agent, Challenor, are juxtaposed to one another. Water’s idea that one should “work through laughter, not for it”, implies a deep social purpose to comedy, whereas Challenor tells the comedians not “to be deep…we’re servants that’s all. They demand, we supply”. The fact that this play itself is a means of utilising comedy to convey deeper ideas, means the

In Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel Scoop, a nature writer named William Boot is mistaken for his far-flung cousin, the famous novelist John Boot and sent as a foreign correspondent to the conflict-ridden country of Ishmaelia. After a number of litigious obstacles, he arrives in Jacksonburg, Ishmaelia, with dozens of other journalists, who spend each day trying to get the “scoop” to send back to their respective newspapers. William spends day after day, sending nothing to his newspaper, the Beast,

A contemporary of Eliot, who also tried to find hope in the midst of chaos and despair of the period was Evelyn Waugh. He writes on the modernists issues in Brideshead Revisited and among other works, such as Vile Bodies. The story describes the high society, Catholic family named the Flytes, living in the midst of the modern period. It describes the struggles of the children and the narrator, Charles Ryder, in their journey to find what makes them happy and how to live a fulfilled life through

Beauty has always been one of society’s accomplishments, objectives and obsessions since the beginning of time. Beauty is fought over, wrote about, spoken of and thought of constantly. Helen of Troy is one example. Her beauty was talked of far and wide, even as a young child. This caused her to be a target at a young age for other kingdoms and realms. Beauty can cause people to do rash things. It always has and always will. People want what they can not have, and for some that is beauty. Beauty is