Dénouement is a French word meaning "outcome." In literary theory, it refers to the part of the plot which ties up loose ends and reveals the final consequences of the events of the story. During the dénouement, the author resolves any final or outstanding questions about the characters’ ...
Definition of plot noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
The project is rooted in a desire to better understand our attachments and relationships to the textual form, and engage with wider questions around meaning, language, semiotics, citation, forms of writing, and alternative ways of knowing. In the first iteration of the BAD READER series, we ...
From Literature And where, all this time, was she, the unfortunate cause of all his misery, and the most unintentional marplot in this history? From Project Gutenberg Therefore the Prince of Wales must be the very Marplot or L'Etourdi of princes, if he cannot contrive to make himself en...
Heathcliff had a steep mental decline after losing meaning in life. He starved himself and gave up on life. He had exacted as much revenge as he possibly could and he had nothing left to live for. He wanted to join Cathy in death. What is the main idea of Wuthering Heights? Wuthering...
English literatureS. MaughamJ. FowlesR. Garynational componentnational meaningThis paper discusses three novels with plot similarities, S. Maugham's "Christmas Holiday", R. Gary's "Lady L.", and John Fowles' "The French Lieutenant's Woman". The plots of these works are analy...
Educating Rita tells a story of a 26-year-old married hairdresser, Rita, who decided to get education by taking a course in English literature from the Open University. Through the development of the relationship between Rita and her alcoholic and cynical tutor, Frank, this story brings up man...
During this time the narrator is mentally ill and John doesn’t believe her. The narrator believes that one reason she does not get better is because he is a physician. John makes her stay in a room with awful yellow wallpaper that has a special meaning behind it and helps her recover....
The term used today in literary studies to render the English technical term ‘plot’, ḥabka, does not appear with this specialised narratological meaning before the late 1970s in the dictionaries I was able to consult. 29 On the intellectual, cf., e.g., Pepe 2019. Choices to be ...
A building lot in a city Plot A plan; a purpose. Lot That which happens without human design or forethought. Plot Attractive physical attributes of characters involved in a story, originating from ironic juxtaposition with the original meaning (course of the story). I'm not sure what's happe...