Literature Analysis: 50 Shades of Grey

 
Yes, I succumbed to the raving reviews of society and read the book. Is it on the literature analysis list? Not exactly. But I do feel it deserves more of an analysis than being assumed to be "porn for older women" (though when I saw the movie there were a couple of women upwards of seventy years old occupying the rows behind me). Which brings me to another point: do NOT judge the book based off of the movie. Everyone knows that the books are almost always 10x better than the movie, which would only make sense seeing as it's easier to capture the important elements of a story in 356 pages rather than a mere 125 minutes.

A Brave New World Notes

-Figurative Language present throughout first few pages
-Restatement "Wintriness responded to wintriness"

Lit Terms #6

simile - noun a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')

A Love of learning, a vision of the future

Knowledge is power, we've all heard it before. Yet to what extent this power exudes is not definite. One might know everything there is to know about English, but when a math test is proposed, they flunk in the worst way possible. It takes a man like Isaac Asimov, who chooses to be knowledgeable in all things, to be truly aware of the concept of knowledge.

Lit Terms #5

parallelism - noun similarity by virtue of corresponding

Aldous Huxley's Foreword

Huxley believe that sanity is only attainable through humanity. If a society repeats the same things over and over again holding for "perfection", that can be dubbed insane. This carries over to social order in that the characters in Huxley's Brave New World can be said to be insane because they are trying to attain a perfect society by breaking down groups of people and repeating the same process each day.

Lit terms 4

interior monologue - noun a piece of writing expressing a character's inner thoughts

Lit Terms 2 Remix

Circumlocution - noun an indirect way of expressing something; a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things

Lit Terms 3

exposition - noun (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur; an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse; a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic; a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display

Literature Analysis #1

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens