Essays Tagged: "chinese box"

In what ways is 'Frankenstein' an early form of science fiction?"

"Frankenstein", by Mary Shelley is a challenging book to read. It is written in Chinese box narrative, a kind of narration with two or more persons telling their own story. It star ...

(6 pages) 18 0 3.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Narrator in "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

erves in to frame the entrenched narrative of the monster. The narrative of Robert can be called a "Chinese box structure" as we have stories within stories. His narrative is a biographical one since ...

(4 pages) 43 0 5.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Arabian Nights

In The Arabian Nights, a collection of Arabic folktales, Shahrazad uses the "˜Chinese box effect' to connect her stories to one another in order to continue telling the story to ... in moral judgment and the trust in people with good conscience.The amazing influence of the "˜chinese box effect' in the whole book can be well observed in the Tale of the Husband and the Parrot ...

(3 pages) 14 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Analysis of Woolf’s Kew Gardens

ibes them. In the final paragraph of the short story all of the entities come together as one. "The Chinese Box demonstrates precisely the main theme of Kew Gardens by showing the interconnection of o ...

(2 pages) 10805 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry