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Female 27 from USA
Interested in War Writing Women's Fiction Victorian Modernism Poetry
Posts and Reviews:
In Chapters 37-40, the novel shifts forms from narrative to drama and we read two soliloquies followed by a scene 'scripted' for several sailors. This is just one example of Melville's unusual choices throughout. What do you make of his odd stylistic moves? Is there something gained by changing course this way? Does it remind you of other works? Other authors?
Elizabeth Bennet is perhaps the most independent of Austen's heroines. Of course, we're all rooting for her to find true love and she does settle down in the end. But what do you think of the notion that the "heroine's journey" in Austen always seems to end with marriage? Austen herself never married, but weddings seem to exist as "proof" that her heroines have come full circle and are successful. Is there an Austen novel that you think might have ended just as happily without marriage? Is Austen's creative choice to end with marriages simply a sign of her times?
