Literary Resources

 

Besides the lay-out of the hypertext, I am going to analyse the literary resources that Ruth Nestvold has used to write the story, I mean, the kind of deities, its meaning and the author’s suggestions that allow the reader to understand the text. The thread of the narrative story is how women and men must find a way to approach each other. The structure of the hypertext is cyclical. That’s mean, there is no a beginning and an end that mark the whole themes of the plot. The author uses dialogues to show the relationship among characters, and a narration, like a short-essay to show her opinion about the themes.

As you can see, I have stressed more its linguistic and literary structure than its lay-out in the hypertext.

The Literary Resources that have been used in this text are:

Metaphores: A huge range of words that allows a comparison between “love” and “war”:  battle, weapons, win, loose, atheist; and a terminology based on religious metaphors: Eve, God, Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, Messiah, Apostles, Devil, punishment, sin, “goddess”= a woman statue; “a pagan temple”= New York; myths, microphone: a phallic silver thing. There is also a complete relate of Jesus Christ’s life. If you want to deepen more about metaphors, visit this place. An allegory by which Eve’s sin has been a heritage that women have received in all the ages. Diana composes a song in which a web is compared with the real life.

Idioms: “All work and no play make Jill a dull girl."

Compound-words: sardine-size, flip-side, wish-fulfillment, copper-haired, leftward-leaning, off-center … and many others, as English language tends to synthesize concepts.

Alliteration: …that guy”, Guy / the lover discovers

Quotations: Jonathan Swift, John Fowles, Bert Brecht, George Meredith, George Santayana, Sigmund Freud.

Mentions: William Falkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Wayne, Rambo, Jack the Ripper, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple.

Dialogues: To show the conflicts between women and men, the author uses “dialogues”, but to describe the characters she uses a whole narration.

There is also a definition from The Webster Dictionary, for the words: LOVE, HATE, WAR, PEACE, and a brief explanation with examples of the different kinds of each one.

You can visit these websites to know more about:

 writer’s resources,

literary resources on the net

 literary resources and hypertext

 

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