"Piano and Drums" is a poem that accurately explores the trying conflict of merging a traditional culture with a new‚ modern civilisation. The author Gabriel Okara‚ who also doubles as the narrator in the poem‚ responds to the drums as his tribal heritage and the simplicity of youth‚ while he sees the piano as the foreign customs irrelevant to the black society‚ with the complexity of experience. Throughout "Piano and Drums"‚ Okara’s choice of diction is used to show his response to the two kinds
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"Views on the role of Nick as narrator in The Great Gatsby have varied greatly. How do these two views relate to your own view of Nick ’s function in the novel?" I aim to explain effectively my opinion that Fitzgerald ’s use of Nick as the narrator of The Great Gatsby is a very successful literary technique. I shall do this by the analysis of the two contrasting pieces of criticism‚ as well as of the novel itself. I feel that the successful use of this technique can be attributed to three main
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How effective is the narrative structure in Wuthering Heights? Wuthering Heights has a unique and complex narrative structure. There are the two main narrators‚ Lockwood and Nelly‚ they each are eyewitness narrators as they have took part in the story they describe. The novel is organised in such a way that it is a narrative within a narrative‚ what some critics would call “Chinese boxes” or frame narrative. Lockwood is used to open and end the novel‚ Bronte uses him to represents the outer frame
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characters of Nelly Dean and Lockwood. Wuthering Heights is a story told through eye witness accounts‚ first through Lockwood‚ followed by Nelly. Lockwood’s responsibility is shaping the framework of the novel whereas Nelly provides the intricate recount of the personal lives of all the characters having been present first hand. Although‚ each character does have a different emotion and style. Wuthering Heights has a very complicated narrative structure. There are two clear narrators‚ but the novel
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Wuthering Heights In A Nutshell Published in 1847‚ Wuthering Heights was the only novel Emily Brontë published‚ and she died the year after it came out. It is the story of Heathcliff‚ a dark outsider who falls in love with the feisty Catherine and rages and revenges against every obstacle that prevents him from being with her. Wuthering Heights is violent even by today’s standards and is not only full of references to demons‚ imps of Satan‚ and ghouls‚ but also depicts some pretty disturbing scenes
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However‚ this full assortment of gentlemanly characteristics‚ along with his civilized virtues‚ proves useless in Edgar’s clashes with his foil‚ Heathcliff‚ who gains power over his wife‚ sister‚ and daughter. Nelly Dean - Nelly Dean (known formally as Ellen Dean) serves as the chief narrator of Wuthering Heights. A sensible‚ intelligent‚ and compassionate woman‚ she grew up essentially alongside Hindley and
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The property Wuthering Heights is described. Volume 1 Chapter 2: • Lockwood repeats his visit to the Heights and meets Hareton and Cathy Heathcliff. • Lockwood mistakes a heap of dead rabbits for a cushion full of cats‚ revealing him as an unreliable observer who sees only what he expects to see. • He also antagonises Hareton by trying to guess at the family relationships and in the end Heathcliff is obliged to explain that both his wife and his son are dead and that Cathy is his daughter in
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Narrative Techniques in Wuthering Heights Although Wuthering Heights was Emily Bronte’s only novel‚ it is notable for the narrative technique she employed and the level of craftsmanship involved in it. Although there are only two obvious narrators‚ Lockwood and Nelly Dean‚ a variety of other narratives are interspersed throughout the novel. The reasons for this are that the whole action of Wuthering Heights is presented in the form of eyewitness narrations by people who have played some part in the narration
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Repetition is a technique that Bronte employs in Wuthering Heights. She uses repletion to convey the idea that nothing ever ends in the world of the novel. Time seems to run in cycles and the horrors of the past repeat themselves in the present an example of this is Heathcliff being forbidden an education and then Hareton being forbidden an education “he was never taught to read or write”. The way that the names of the characters are recycled‚ so that the names of the characters from the younger
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Wuthering Heights Chapter 6: Character analysis: Nelly Dean: Nelly Dean is a servant in the Wuthering Heights‚ who originally grew up there. Also she is the narrator for this particular chapter. Nelly can be seen as quietly observant. Unlike Mr. Lockwood who makes assumptions and is quick to blurt out the first words that come to his mind‚ Nelly pays attention and then may‚ make her judgments. This can be seen in the first and second paragraphs where she talks recounts her first encounter
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