.... melodrama, several key techniques must be used, including proximity and familiarity to the audience, deceit rather than vindictive malice, lack of character development and especially the role of social status. The sensational novel is usually a tale of our own times. Proximity is indeed one great element of sensation. A tale which aims to electrify the nerves of the reader is never thoroughly effective unless the scene be laid out in our own days and among the people we are in the habit of meeting. In keeping with mid-Victorian themes, Lady Audley’s Secret .....

.... Willy gives his wife stockings, which are very expensive, it is a symbol of love to Biff. He sees his father giving them to someone else and he knows that his father isn’t all that he seems. He is giving his love away to someone other than Linda. The second thing of significance is the fact that is one instant Biff now doesn’t want Willy to get his grade changed. He thinks that because of the person he now thinks his father is he couldn’t do it. He is completely disillusioned by what he has seen, and his whole concept of who his father is breaks down. His hero image of .....

.... Wells' prophecy of "the shape of things to come" is accomplished in The Time Machine. His ideas about the future are surely detrimental. As the Time Traveler is standing on the shore of a dead sea, he thinks to himself, I cannot convey the sense of abominable desolation that hung over the world. The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters, the uniform poisonous-looking green of the lichenous plants, the thin air that hurt one's lungs; all contributed to an appalling effect (69). This scene i .....

.... with burying her there. Even after Addie had been dead over a week, and all of the bridges to Jefferson are washed out, he is still determined to get to Jefferson. Is Anse sincere in wanting to fulfill his promise to Addie, or is he driven by another motive? Anse plays "to perfection the role of the grief-stricken widower" (Bleikasten 84) while secretly thinking only of getting another wife and false teeth in Jefferson. When it becomes necessary to drive the wagon across the river, he proves himself to be undeniably lazy as he makes Cash, Jewel, and Darl drive the wagon acros .....

.... the chaos of experience through form. Kosinski’s novel applies organic form to portray the appalling predicaments the boy encountered during the separation from his family. The use of organic form in the formal pattern offers the reader the “what-will-be-next” scenario before they proceed through the pages. Kosinski gives the reader a taste of the animalistic characteristics of the towns’ people the boy confronts during the war. This allows the reader not to be “shocked” when the peasants the boy faces demonstrated an extraordinary predil .....

.... he is a child. When he was in school, he was transferred to a special school because he had an IQ of an idiot and did not fit in with the mainstream. When he was about sixteen, a guy stopped him on his way home from “nut school” and asked him why he had not seen him around before. The next week, he was taken out of that school and placed in a public high school so he could play football. He was six foot six and weighed 245 pounds. Forrest led his team to a state championship and made the All State Football team. In addition, Forrest always says, “I got to pee.” wheneve .....

.... no one wants to speak out or stand up to Creon because they all fear him and afraid to loose their life going against his words. But Antigone isn't afraid of Creon or the consequences that faces her if she goes against his ruling. Creon knows that Antigone would not back down, she shows him that she is not afraid of the consequences but yet still he wants to prove himself that his word is law even if the gods advised him that he would loose everything important to him. Creon is in a position of great power, influence and responsibility. The extent of his power is quite clear .....

.... t workers to overthrow the capitalists by means of violent revolution. He urged workers around the world to revolt against their rulers. "Workers of the worl unite!" he wrote. "You have nothing to lose but your chains." Another thing Marx taught was that organized religion, the churches, help capitalists to keep the workers quiet and obedient. Religion, according to Mar 'the opiate of the masses'. The church tells working people to forget about th injustice they meet in their lives and to think instead of how wonderful it wi in the after- life when they go to heaven. .....