DEPICTING THE CONTRASTS THROUGH SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS
Journal Title: The Journal of International Social Research - Year 2014, Vol 7, Issue 34
Abstract
One of the most prominent figures among American novelists is Henry James, who is mostly famous for his international novels. Through his international novels, he had professionally practiced his international theme to show the contrasts between America and Europe. This contrast is depicted between their societies, cultures, ideals, conventions and characters. James is called by Howells as the master of portraying the American girls, because he practiced his international theme through portraying the American girls in the European society. But what makes his The Wings of the Dove, different among his other works, is the fact that his basic pattern of depicting a deceived American girl in a sophisticated European society, enabled James to practice his international theme through using symbolic characters. Milly Theale, the heroine of this novel, is the symbole of an American innocent girl. This paper is going to study that how James had putted a sophisticated European girl, Kate, against Milly to show the contrast, which he had thought to exist between America and Europe in those days. Actually Milly and Kate are the symbol of their countries, and the story propel through their interactions.
Authors and Affiliations
Davood MOGHADAM
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP266790
- DOI -
- Views 148
- Downloads 0
A COMPARATIVE DISCUSSION OVER MILITARY JURISDICTION SYSTEMS’ STATUS OFAZERBAIJAN AND TURKEY FROM THE POINT OF JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE”
Yargı bağımsızlığını, salt üst hiyerarşi ya da idari otoritenin gücünden kaynaklanan bir takım müdahalelerin bertaraf edilmesi şeklinde algılamak yanlıştır. Özellikle askeri yargı söz konusu olduğu zaman, yargı sistemi i...
MIGRATION AND EUROPEAN IDENTITY POLITICS IN DAVID EDGAR’S PENTECOST
The political and social ramification of the decline of Soviet Union and the collapse of Berlin Wall in 1989, which brings out a bedlam in Eastern Europe are focused on in David Edgar’s play Pentecost (1995). In the play...
THE BUILDING OF WOMEN IDENTITY THROUGH BODY IN POSTMODERN SOCIETY
In this research, it was aimed to determine how women's identity is represented in the media in the post modern society and to investigate which imagery reflects the concept of beauty of the female body. For this purpose...
HÂB-NÂME-İ LATÎF OF HÂFIZ ABDÜLLATİF EFENDİ OF ENDERUN
There are texts and tracts in poetic, prose or a combination of poetic and prose related to dreams and the dream world in Turkish literature. These texts cited with names such as Hâb-nâme, Hâbiyye, Vâkı-a nâme etc. is ba...
THE EFFECTS OF EDO PERIOD ON JAPANESE AND EUROPEAN PORCELAIN TRADITION
craft in Europe. Japan porcelains have been more affected from China and Korea, yet Japan porcelains -adapting these two effects to its culture- similarly created a manner that expose its influence on the porcelain techn...