choice of perspective is a significant decision for a novelist to make because it can ultimately shape the reader’s views on the events and the characters in a story. For example‚ Muriel Spark’s uses a series of flash-forwarding to enhance the reader’s experience and affect their attitudes towards ‘the Brodie set’ (Spark 5) when it reveals their futures early whilst they are still young girls within the story and how they became ultimately formed by Miss Brodie’s ‘elusive’ (11) prime in The Prime
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Oleksandra Sydorenko “The Black Madonna” by M.Spark The extract under analysis is taken from the short story “The Black Madonna” by famous award-winning Scottish novelist Muriel Spark. The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945" The extract is about a Catholic childless couple Raymond and Lou Parker. They live in their three-roomed apartment and try to cultivate their tastes in an aristocratic manner. But in the end of the story they are presented
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Analysis “The Ormolu Clock” is a short story written by Muriel Spark‚ who is considered to be one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Dame Muriel is a poet‚ writer of fiction and literary criticism‚ and biographer – went on to win most of the literary awards going‚ was never out of print‚ and was at the top of her profession‚ internationally‚ for more than half a century. The story under discussion begins with the description of two hotels standing side by side and separated by a
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie The prime of miss Jean Brodie is a novella written by Muriel Spark 1961. This novela utilises an unsual structure‚ Muriel uses flashbacks and flashforwards to ehance the reader’s appreciation for the novela in a more style. Not only that but the use of flashforwards is an interesting device as it allows the reader to understand the consequences of the character’s actions. The story is based around a woman‚ Miss Jean Brodie who works at the Marcia Blaine School for
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Discuss the ways in which passing and the prime present character who buck societal convention and the sequences there of. In the two novel the prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Passing by Muriel Spark and Nella Larsen‚ respectively connect with some social unconventional characters which is control over someone‚ selfishness‚ betray to satisfy own desires and construction of race. In 1929‚ Larsen wrote passing‚ a novel that portrays the physiological-social problem trough “passing” a phenomenon which
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Michael Jordan English 4 Honors 2 May 2014 Feminist Influence in “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley Bissonette‚ Melissa Bloom. "Teaching The Monster: "Frankenstein" And Critical Thinking." College Literature 37.3 (2010): 106-120. Literary Reference Center. Web. 29 Apr. 2014. The author of this essay questions the importance of the monster‚ and who is technically responsible for the murders‚ Victor or Victor’s creation? The author states that we must view the monster through the frames of both sympathy
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1. In what ways and to what ends do authors create a distinct narrative voice? In the novel ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’‚ Muriel Spark uses a chronological narrative structure‚ running from the 1930s to the 1950s to tell the story. Within this framework‚ she creates a distinct narrative voice in a number of ways. There is much debate over who the voice is. One might argue it is the consistent and overarching voice of an omniscient narrator who can relate to the plot as a whole‚ moving back and
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Structure Spark unfolds her plots not sequentially‚ but piece by piece‚ making extensive use of the narrative technique of prolepsis (flash-forward). For example‚ the reader is aware early on that Miss Brodie is betrayed‚ though sequentially this happens at the end of their school years. Gradually Spark reveals the betrayer‚ and lastly all the details surrounding the event are told. Spark develops her characters in this way‚ too: Joyce Emily is introduced right away as the girl who is rejected from
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’It is important to see beyond narrative voice when judging a text.’ Unless a story is written from someone’s point of view there is no story. Within literature‚ two commonly used viewpoints are First person and Third person limited. First person is where the narrator is a character in the story; and Third person limited is told from a character’s perspective. A writer will choose the point of view that they believe will best convey their message. At the heart of that choice is their choice of
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support them and can thus reaffirm their sense of identity. In the beginning of the play‚ Muriel is still in search of her identity‚ thus attempting to make friends with Tania and her group of friends as a testing ground. Although the negative statements “We don’t want you hanging around us anymore” and “you bring us down Muriel” convey how Tania’s group feel that Muriel does not belong in their group after all‚ Muriel does not want to be left alone. She thus steals money from her family to go on a holiday
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