John Herbert

In 1958, Forster added a postscript to the novel called "A View Without a Room" that caught up with the fates of the various characters within the novel and brought into question the romantic...

A key element of Forster's narrative technique is on particular show in A Room with a View, that of "free indirect discourse" or what Forster scholars have come to know as the "bouncing narrative."...

There are lots of answers to this question, both positive and negative influences that inspired the decision to take the series of journeys that led to his death. On the negative side, clearly...

The imagery of the story tends to be employed through the use of synecdoche (i.e. the use of appropriately chosen small detail) rather than via comparisons (simile, metaphor, personification etc.)...

The first line is comprised of a tri-colon (a list of three) accumulating three parts of the process of ageing which combine to give the sense of someone approaching death - 'old', 'grey' and 'full...

The full quote for this episode is: 'Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw....

The first and longest ruling monarch was Elizabeth I who ruled for what might be thought of as the first half of Shakespeare's writing career. Many of the issues to do with marriage and the issues...

McCandless might first be defined by his non-conformism and his willingness to eschew the financially comfortable background in which he was brought up. Krakauer states that he 'believed that...

This is a complex question and one that I will need to break down into various elements.  Setting - The central setting and the recurring structural motif of the novel relate to the...

Sonnet 18 is a complex sonnet and, at one level, it is as described in the answer above. The tone of its opening quatrain is, indeed, optimistic but, equally frustrated by the constraints of the...

The English renaissance was particular in its preoccupation with religion and the place of man in relationship with God. England had undergone an especially fraught period in its religious...

Drawing conclusions means in general terms to come to the end of a written assignment. To draw a conclusion, however, demands that one has reached the end of a reasoned argument, ordinarily in...

I'll take Pathos to mean 'a quality that evokes pity or sadness' and in that sense, there are many examples in Into the Wild, the following being just a few: 1. At the point at which McCandless...

The key passage to look at in order to examine this is the closing soliloquy of the play where the bell tolls signifying one hour until Faustus is taken to hell. Even at this incredibly late period...

The answer above is an interesting one and represents one valid reading of the novel. However, there is an alternative reading, one supported by Forster's later appendix to the novel, 'A View...

1. Narrative diachrnonicity - This is, in a key sense, the illusion within a story, that time is passing. This doesn't necessarily mean a linear sense of time i.e. a followed by b and then c etc....

Clare's poem is deeply ambivalent (i.e. it has two distinct and different meanings) in its attitude to first love and recounts both the pleasurable and terrifying aspects of this most powerful of...

Mrs Ramsay might be argued to have characteristics which she believes to be positive but others believe to be constraining or negative characteristics. Chief amongst these, one might consider her...

Chapter 10 sees Asher living for the summer in Provincetown with Jacob Khan. Khan discusses the life of Paul Cezanne, the French post-impressionist painter famed for his portrayals of Mt. St....

The scene shows considerable parallels in the sense that both groups are, of course, in a search for a meaningful experience to give their lives meaning. The pilgrims journey to Rome in order to be...