Реферат: The JudgeS Wife By Isabel Allende Essay

?The Judge?S Wife? By Isabel Allende Essay, Research Paper

In ?The Judge?s Wife? the author, Isabel Allende, uses a variety of techniques to

make full use of the limited space within her short story. By using strong imagery,

providing a background, providing believable human actions, and examining justice, M.

Allende creates a piece readers can understand to the point of empathy. Because her

short story examines human behavior in respect to passions, justice, and emotion (love)

in a plausible manner one can find close similarities between her work and that of Mary

Shelly?s Frankenstein.

The author makes use of imagery to embellish not only upon her environment, but

also her characters. M. Allende presents the ideas of corruption, innocence, and

strictness simply through well-selected adjectives that lend eloquently to the

descriptions of her characters. The strait laced judge being ??dressed formally in black

? and his boots always shone with bees wax ? (Allende, 422). One can infer by details

such as those that that particular individual appreciates formality, and considering his

desert location, a strict adherence to it. The author also uses images of deformity

demonstrate the corruption of her main character, Nicholas Vidal; by providing him with

four (4) nipples and a scared face the reader can have a visual representation of the

character?s tragic formation. In much the same manner, one can see such development

within Frankenstein?s creation. The monster?s grotesque outward appearance reflects

his corrupted creation. Using such imagery the author allows the readers to form a solid

conception of the plight of their characters.

Mary Shelly uses lovely poetic imagery in much the same way to define, and give

three-dimensional presence to her characters. Such use of imagery for the purpose of

character definition can most clearly be seen in her description of her monster:

?His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as

beautiful. Beautiful, Great GOD! His yellow skin scarcely covered the

work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black

and flowering; his teeth pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only

formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost

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