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The fable, "the Beast in the Jungle", is a parable of John Marcher's...

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:34:23 PST

The fable, "the Beast in the Jungle", is a parable of John Marcher's life, the main protagonist of the entire story, who believes that he has a peculiar and a special destiny with him and wait for that special moment, even if he is suffering from disasters and problems, at wits end. But at the end, that "special moment" was just speculative and wasn't grounded by basic facts and truths and fizzled to oblivion and nothing of greatest...

How does James' work in "TBITJ" make him distinctive as a realist?

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:49:01 PST

How does James' work in "TBITJ" make him distinctive as a realist?

How is the title "The Beast in the Jungle" significant? What is John...

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 19:31:38 PST

How is the title "The Beast in the Jungle" significant? What is John Marcher's Beast in the Jungle?

A symbol in each chapter that is used to reveal something about the...

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 14:36:12 PST

A symbol in each chapter that is used to reveal something about the development of John and Mays relationship. What does each symbol / image reveal?

How is John Marcher self-absorbed in The BEAST in The Jungle by Henry...

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:47:39 PST

How is John Marcher self-absorbed in The BEAST in The Jungle by Henry James.

Isn't James right on that score, then? That Hawthorne did not believe...

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:14:52 PST

Isn't James right on that score, then? That Hawthorne did not believe in the Puritan doctrines--that's the point of Hawthorne's treatment of them, no? Does Renoylds mean to say that Hawthorne is didactic in his stance in relation to puritan doctrine? James wrote about Emerson, too, and he understood the relationship between Puritanism and Transcendentalism. He did appreciate--or at least he adopted--some of the metaphors of...

In his study, "Beneath the American Renaissance," author David...

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:15:04 PST

In his study, "Beneath the American Renaissance," author David S. Reynolds writes: "Henry James noted that Hawthorne had a profound knowledge of Puritan doctirnes as total deprevation, predestination, and perservance of the saints but did not sincerely believe in any of them." So too, I would argue,was Jamees unable to resolve his moral dilemmas. Henry James, Renoylds says, was not able to explain Hawthorne's social...

Henry James and Hawthorne

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:05:09 PST

I discovered recently that James wrote a book about Hawthorne, which was part of his fascination concerning the influence of Puritanism on American culture and how he sees this when the New World encounters the Old (as in The Ambassador) or in the lives of Americans ("Beast in the Jungle," perhaps, or The Bostonians, or maybe even "Turn of the Screw.") James says of Hawthorne, "worse than...

The Beast in the Jungle is the story of John Marcher, who believes he is...

Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:46:01 PST

The Beast in the Jungle is the story of John Marcher, who believes he is destined for a special fate. This conviction is so profound that instead of delving into life, Marcher chooses to live at life’s fringe, waiting for this special event to occur. When, at the end of his life, Marcher decides that he was mistaken in his conviction, and that nothing of momentous import was in fact to be his destiny, he is left a broken man. In "The Beast...

In Henry James' "The Beast in the Jungle", describe the plot, the mood,...

Sun, 4 Feb 2007 17:17:11 PST

In Henry James' "The Beast in the Jungle", describe the plot, the mood, and the feeling of the story.