Essays Tagged: "Beast in the Jungle"
"a white heron" and "the best in the jungle", compare and contrast
'A White Heron and 'The Beast in the Jungle''A Comparison and Contrast EssayComparing and contrasting Jewett's Sylvy in 'A W ... t EssayComparing and contrasting Jewett's Sylvy in 'A White Heron' with May Bartram of James's 'The Beast in the Jungle' proves to be an interesting task. How can two such unlike characters be so alik ... to the hunter's desire for knowledge of the nest and never divulged the secret.May Bartram in the 'Beast in the Jungle' contrasts Sylvy quite interestingly she is assumed to be in her twenties and ti ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
'The Beast in the Jungle' by Henry James
repulsed. Perhaps James wasn't thinking so much of the reader as he was thinking of himself.In 'The Beast in the Jungle' James has aesthetically hidden the reality of Marcher's destiny by treating it ... es has aesthetically hidden the reality of Marcher's destiny by treating it as a symbolic crouching beast waiting to spring. The reader will ask why James has done this? Wouldn't it be more effective ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
May Bartram's behavioral change in Henry James's "The Beast in the Jungle"
Henry James's short story "The Beast in the Jungle"illustrates the changeable behavior of May Bartram. MayBartram shows her wide ra ... the only thing that, if she could, wouldcontinue to live for.In all, Henry James's short story "The Beast in theJungle" demonstrates May Bartram's transforming behavior.Each chapter is designed to sho ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The Consequence of Anticipation Henry James' "The Beast in the Jungle" - A literary analysis of a classic short story
s, but as soon as the veil is lifted, all mystery disappears" ("Henry James"). In his novella, "The Beast in the Jungle," James employs characterization through dialogue to explain that imagining and ... clearly proves his obsession with his fate. Marcher's tragedy is actually an anticlimax, with the "beast in the jungle" being the absence of a beast, yet, in a way, the beast is indeed present. The b ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Psychological doubles
le is both reductive and powerful. It assumes that we are all playing a role in life; that a raving beast waits within for the chains to loosen or snap. Doubles stories seem to proliferate when people ... lture. (Edmunson 48) Such duality of roles is expressed in terms of split personalities in both The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James (1843-1916) and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Ro ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature