Q: Sketch the character of Thomas Wilson. Is the name ‘lotos-eater’ appropriate to him? Ans. William Somerset Maugham’s compelling short story ‘The Lotus Eater’ paints his curious meeting with Thomas Wilson‚ the pivotal character of the story. A retired English bank manager‚ Wilson‚ who made the Italian island Capri his own abode‚ had a good deal of rumour going about him. No believer of all the tittle-tattle that went about him on the island and elsewhere‚ the author met him personally
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The Novel Miguel Street has been variously classified as a group of short stories‚ as a series of sketches‚ and as a novel. The latter classification is supported by the fact that it is unified by a single narrator and by several patterns and themes. Furthermore‚ although each chapter is dominated by a single character‚ those major characters reappear as minor characters in other chapters. At the end of the book‚ all the characters who still live on Miguel Street gather to present to the narrator
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S. NAIPAUL’S MIGUEL STREET What is the role of the creative artist in countries such as ours? Novelist V.S Naipaul raises this question in the story of B. Wordsworth‚ one of the stories in Miguel Street‚ a 1959 book of Trini characters. "Trinidadians are more recognizably ’characters’ than people in England"‚ said Naipaul in an August ‚1958 piece in the Times Literary Supplement. The "characters" in Miguel Street’s portrait gallery include "Man Man" and "Bolo"‚ both of whom are
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"The Luncheon" by W. Somerset is a wonderfully written story‚ but the variation by Jeffrey Archer is equally as enticing. Both narratives tell of an author who is struggling to make ends meet‚ but sees his big break at a very expensive luncheon. I like both of the stories because although they have the same plot the twists at the end make them completely different. At first I wondered how the same story could be comparable‚ let only different‚ but I was wrong. These two variation are vastly analogous
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The setting: Where? International waters on an ocean-going liner sailing from San Francisco‚ USA‚ to Yokohama‚ Japan‚ on the Pacific ocean. When? Post-World war I (after 1918). "I did not like Mr. Kelada” - Why? Before their first meeting: His name (Max Kelada) – not English‚ indicates middle-eastern origin (“I should have looked upon it with less dismay if my fellow passenger’s name had been Smith or Brown”). The look of his luggage – too many labels on the suitcases‚ the
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17 April 2013 V.S. Naipaul The Effect of Colonialism in V.S Naipaul’s Miguel Street “The man is so colonized that he abandons his native Trinidadian identity” (Beck‚ 2002). Although pertaining to the character B. Wordsworth‚ in V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street‚ this quote can be used to describe the very meaning of the book itself. It can be used to provide a clear picture of what was happening in British occupied Trinidad. Other characters such as George‚ a raging drunk who beat his wife and children
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SIW Module 1 Variant 2 Theme: Stylistic Devices. Analysis of the text. 1. Point out three metaphors and three epithets used by the author to characterize the main character (Stephens) and comment on them. Three metaphors : trifle embarrassed apologetic laugh forcible ring Three epithets: thick-set and stout a round red face bullet-shaped head All these stylistic devices describe the main hero as a person who is very tired of life‚ he is passive‚ but he wants to change something
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Practice what you preach Any person in the world is an individual and it goes without saying that all people differ. Consequently‚ all of them have different mentality‚ ideology‚ behavior‚ thoughts‚ attitude to the same things and phenomena. Usually since childhood we stand on one path and follow it during all our life. Here the influence of parents‚ grandparents‚ teachers can be seen‚ when we try to copy their adult habits. But it seems to be normal when a little child follows the ideas of
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Moreover‚ within a span of few pages we find the mention of a large array of animals and birds and Sita is noted to share a strange bond with them. She is carefree‚ and hardly shudders at the thought of taming the snakes. Her spontaneous handling of the serpentine creature is noted in the lines‚ “She had no quarrel with the snakes. They kept down the rats and the frogs.” The narrator’s hint at the importance of the ecological food chain in the lines cannot be overlooked. We find the narrator referring
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SHORT STORIES BY W.S.M. 2.1. Style of Maugham`s Writing…………………………………………………29 2.2. The Pragmatic Analysis of the Use of Expressive Means in Maugham`s Short Stories………………………………………………………………………...32 2.2.1. Rendering Epithets in Somerset Maugham`s Short Stories………………..32 2.2.2. Employment of Irony in Maugham`s Narrative……………………………40 2.2.3. Repetition as a Stylistic Device in Maugham`s Short Stories……………...51 2.2.4. The Use of Phraseological Units in Maugham`s Short Stories…………….58 2.3. The Statistical
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