The Fifth Child

The Fifth Child      The word "monster" has many definitions. Some define it as a creature having a frightening or strange appearance. It is also defined as one that inspires horror or disgust. Ben certainly fits into all of these categories. He was different right from pregnancy. He looks extremely frightening, almost like a Neanderthal. Ben is an outcast even in an institution for "nature's mistakes." From the moment Harriet became pregnant it was

The Fifth Child is the masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing. Lessing herself described it as a horror story, but we can also put it into the genre of social –psychological novels. She declared: '' I hated writing it. It was sweating blood. I was very glad when it was done. It was an upsetting thing to write - obviously, it goes very deep into me somewhere.'' It is a brilliant novel which deals not just with the social aspect of family life in England at the end of 19th century but with

How can a society both create and deny a monster? In 1989, Doris Lessing published The Fifth Child, a book about a couple who take on way more than they can handle with debt, a large family and an ideal life that they think will make them happy; but in the end, destroys everything. Traditionally, we think of monsters as having evil intent to harm or ugly appearances, but the older we get, the less obvious monsters become. Through her story, Lessing make us reflect deeply on how monsters function

The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing The character of Ben Lovatt in Doris Lessing's "The Fifth Child" is one that is very powerful, and also extremely interesting. He is violent, and unbelievably strong, yet he would not be able to fend for himself in the "big, bad World". Doris Lessing's use of a very effective mixture of characterisation, symbolism and language use result in a very intriguing and fascinating novel. At the start of the novel, the reader is lulled into

housewives and nothing more. Women were not expected to get a career, but rather be a stay at home mom that made sure the house is clean and the children are taken good care of. In the book The Fifth Child, women play a traditional mother manipulated by society's standards. When Harriet became pregnant with her fifth child, her family questioned her lifestyle. After realizing that Ben was destroying the perfect family David and Harriet dreamt of having when they met at the office party. David managed to

novels “The Fifth Child” and “The Shining” is very clear in terms of the type of the novel, story and events. Despite the similarity between the two novels, but the significance and purpose of both stories are completely different. It is clear that Comparison between the stories would be focusing on the events of the story and characters, also, both novels share the same essence of idea of story as there are many common things that are easy to compare between these two novels. The Fifth child novel is

I used "The Innocent Youth" to analyze The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings by Gabriel García Márquez, The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing, and The Things They Carried By Tim O'Brien. Using the definition of innocent youth, "a character inexperienced with many weaknesses who seeks safety with others; others like him/her because of the trust he or she shows in other people. Usually, the experience of coming of age comes in the later parts of the narratives" provided to me. Also, using a basic definition

In Kun Zhao’s paper, he does a narrative study on Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child for a better understanding of its narrative structures. In his paper, he analyzes the narrator in the novel from overt and reliable narrative viewpoint, his paper explorers the narrative power of the novel from the analysis of its narrative structure. In my paper, I will take references on his paper, and then make arguments about some points which I don’t agree with. Kun Zhao introduces us the different types of narrators:

characters in the assignment for unit three must have been atrocious for the two to bear. In the novel The Fifth Child the reader’s perspective of Ben was written as such that the character of Ben was a degenerated that was born into an impeccable family system that was forced to deal with his unbearable behavior. In the book A High Wind in Jamaica Margaret’s character was that of a preteen child that was forced to bear the attention of inappropriate pirates as well as the rejection by her fellow companions

Perpetrators and victims of The Fifth Child and A High Wind in Jamaica People are usually viewed as perpetrators before they become the victims of a certain situations. Some times, however, people are taken at fault for the things they are truly innocent for. In the book of The Fifth Child, Ben is almost always blamed for his actions even though he unintentionally did the things he had done. He was the perpetrator throughout the story, the family members constantly thinking that Ben was to blame