Obsessed With Killing In the novel The Wasp Factory‚ by Iain Banks‚ All the characters possess an uncommon character trait. The main character‚ Frank Cauldhame is obsessed with killing. He has been obsessed with killing since he was a young child‚ when he murdered three innocent children. His obsession has evolved into a daily ritual due to multiple reasons. First‚ Frank’s dad has secretly put additional male hormones in Frank’s food since he was a young child. (Frank was born female‚ but after
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"The authors of ’American Psycho’ and ’The Wasp Factory’ present their protagonists Patrick Bateman and Frank Cauldhame to have very similar personalities." How far do you agree? ‘American Psycho’ and ‘The Wasp Factory’ are two controversial dark novels in which the protagonist gets away with murder. They were published only seven years apart‚ ‘The Wasp Factory’ being the first. ‘The Wasp Factory’ was Iain Banks first published novel‚ and was released into the conservative United Kingdom in 1984
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Compare franks murder of his 3 victims Frank lovingly describes the murder of his three victims. Banks may have been influenced by the ‘video nasties’ from 1970s-80s that has helped shape and form the way he has presented the deaths of his victims. The similarities of each victim are the way Frank disposes of them are all disturbing. The difference is that the reason for their disposal all have different underlining themes and messages that Banks may present his view through. When Frank was
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‘Compare the ways writers’ present disconcerting behaviour in both texts so far.’ The following will elucidate how disturbing behaviour is conveyed in the novel The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks and the play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. In A Streetcar Named Desire‚ the theme of violence is very frequent in the character Stanley Kowalski. Stanley is a married‚ young man‚ who comes across to the reader as quite an enraged person with animalistic attributes. A prime insinuation of
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throughout the poem. At first glance –in its starting lines‚ 1 to 24- the poem appears to be about nothing more major than the character’s disturbance at particular wasps which have chosen to make his US mailbox their nest. The poem then progresses‚ as do its continuously shifting tone and meaning. After identifying the situation of the wasps’ nest‚ the voice‚ at one point‚ seems to run into somewhat of a conflict where his usual instinct‚ moral judgment and human nature are locked in a power struggle
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The Brown Wasps In Loren Eiseley’s Essay The Brown Wasps‚ Eiseley shows that humans and animals act in similar ways. He says that humans and animals cling to the things they know very strongly. Sometimes they even act as if nothing even changed. Humans and animals tend to want to return to things that they are familiar to as they grow older. Loren Eiseley shows how humans and animals try to cling or recreate an important or favorite place. This essay is about memory‚ home‚ places in time
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Wasps By Sami Missing The wasp‚ or Vespula Vulgaris‚ as it is known scientifically‚ is an insect. It’s color is black and yellow; it has a length of one-half inches and a wing span of 0.0079 inches. As all insects‚ the wasp has bilateral symmetry‚ an exoskeleton‚ two eyes‚ six legs‚ and three body parts. It has two antenna and 2 wings. The wasp is part of the Animalia Kingdom‚ Arthropoda Phylum & Insecta Class. The life cycle of a wasp begins with an egg and ends sometime between 12
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In ‘when the wasp drowned’ and ‘the darkness out there’ the theme of death is presented within the characters and the twisted storyline. A number of techniques such as symbolism‚ tone and narrative are used to portray these themes to the reader. In ‘when the wasps drowned’ Eveline is portrayed as being mature and protective over her siblings and more importantly the truth of the ring. In ‘the darkness out there’ Mrs Rutter is at first seen to be a typical old lady who has a dark secret. Within both
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The Spider and the Wasp Alexander Petrunkevitch shows great details about nature and its creatures. Like one of his story “The Sider and the Wasp.” Two different creatures trying to live another day‚ jet for some reason they look for conflict with one another. Those two creatures that are the same but different in their own way “is a classic example of what looks like intelligences pitted against instinct” (Petrunkevitch 59). The tarantula and the digger (pepsis) are both
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that is not enough to become the Unites States a multi cultural country. The WASP model has dominated the social structure of the United States. This model is assimilated for most cultures from immigrant and globalization effects. Furthermore‚ according to the Anglo-conformism‚ if any culture survives‚ it is excluding from the society. That is because; the WASP culture still dominated the country in several states and
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