"A Gothic horror story of quite exceptional quality...macabre‚ bizarre and...quite impossible to put down." <br> <br>The above quote is the response of the Financial Times to the best-selling novel‚ "The Wasp Factory"‚ and in my opinion‚ truer words were never spoken. I myself had to force the book out of my hands in the early hours of the morning on several occasions. This clearly says something about the sheer power of Iain Bank’s debut novel. Whether you love it or hate it‚ once you have read
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a relationship than our time‚ so even though the audience of this period of time may see Stanleys abusive actions as destructive and out of order‚ in the 60’s these sort of scenario’s would’ve ’happened already’. Whereas‚ in Iain Banks’s‚ “The Wasp Factory”‚ the writer presents disturbing behaviour in a similar way‚ but from a different perspective. Iain Banks similairly presents Frank to have an unusual animalistic yet‚ predator-like behaviour to portray a different kind of character. Tennessee
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In “The Wasp Factory”‚ the penis is seen as a symbol that frees men from seeking their own personality as it talks for itself. Frank’s deprivation of this “symbol of manhood” causes him a lack of identity‚ which in its turn‚ trigger a sex pursuit‚ as he dedicates his life to replace it and to out-man others. This is ironic as when he thinks he’s got his world perfectly figured out‚ he realizes he’s a woman‚ which profoundly questions the significance of “manhood” as we discover its fragility and
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Compare and Contrast the disturbing behavior In The Wasp Factory and A Streetcar Named Desire Disturbing behavior is clearly shown throughout both The Wasp Factory and A Streetcar Named Desire with representations of how the outside world effects and distorts the human mind through characters Blanche‚ Stella and Stanley in A Streetcar… and Frank‚ Eric and their father in The Wasp Factory. I aim to explore and compare the two depictions of the disturbed mind by finding similar themes within
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Compare the ways in which the theme of insanity is presented in the novels “the Wasp Factory” and “the Collector”. Miles Cooper Iain Banks and John Fowles have successfully written books portraying insanity‚ with the effective use of many techniques. Language‚ in the books‚ “The Collector” and “The Wasp Factory” has been used to great effect as well as enthralling plots and the development of characters exhibiting strange behaviour to achieve realistically insane characters. Misogyny
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violent ending and a twist that undermines all that Frank believed about himself. Plot summary The ’Wasp Factory’ of the title is a clock face salvaged from the local dump. Behind each numeral is a trap‚ which leads to a different ritual death (for example burning‚ crushing‚ or drowning in Frank’s urine) for the wasp that Frank puts into the hole at the centre. He uses the death ’chosen’ by the wasp to divine the future. There are also the Sacrifice Poles‚ upon which hang the bodies and heads of larger
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In both Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Iain Banks’ The Wasp Factory‚ gender constructions are explored and manipulated to show the harmful effects that social norms of a patriarchal society can have on an individual’s psyche. Gender is a social construct which dictates how men and women should act in different situations; therefore‚ since both authors create characters who transgress the boundaries of this construct‚ it is implied that there cannot be a clear line between genders. However‚ whilst Morrison
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He is a Sister: The Monstrous (De)Construction of the Sex/Gender Binary in Iain Banks’ The Wasp Factory Vikki Winkler English 498: Honours Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jodey Castricano March 31‚ 2008 If it is appropriate to define “ideology” as that which constitutes social‚ cultural‚ and political order‚ then perhaps it can be said that as a genre‚ the Gothic paradoxically both challenges and reinforces the stability of these seemingly “fixed” structures and‚ similarly‚ that it both disturbs and
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The wasp factory Activity one: 1. the novel is driven by an overwhelmingly obsessive fist person narration – frank cauldhame‚ who speaks cooly and calmly about strange events. There are also these sacrifice poles‚ upon which hang bodies and heads of large animals such as seagulls‚ that frank has killed. he believes they define and protext the borders of frank’s territory. 2. he is capable of hmour‚ irony‚ self-analysis and has an objective view of his strange situation. He lives in
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of a murderer in "The Wasp Factory" and "The Silence of the Lambs". "The Silence of the Lambs‚" by Thomas Harris‚ and "The Wasp Factory‚" by Iain Banks‚ are both twentieth century novels that portray the minds of two different serial killers. "The Silence of the Lambs" is a thriller about how F. B. I. agent in training‚ Clarice Starling‚ is sent to question the "evil" cannibalistic serial killer‚ Dr Hannibal Lecter‚ on how to find a killer on the loose. "The Wasp Factory‚" on the other hand
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