Not Wanted On The Voyage Essay Examples

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The Differences Between Dr. Frankenstein’s Movie and Mary Shelley’s Novel (813 words, 2 pages)

How can we think of Frankenstein and ignore the film classic of 1931? Yet the celebrated film does not follow the novel by Mary Shelley. Although the scene of a futuristic laboratory entrances movie audiences with the mad Dr. Frankenstein and his faithful assistant Igor, the scene is derived from ... Read More

The Portrayal of Autocratic Societies in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1536 words, 3 pages)

Autocratic Societies In Handmaids Tale Autocratic Societies and Their TyrantsIn my essay I am going to talk about the autocratic societies in the books Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley, and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. In Findley's twisted version of Noah's ark, Noah is a tyrant ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley (990 words, 2 pages)

Turning the first page into this novel, Not Wanted on the Voyage by author Timothy Findley, I noticed all the religious excepts from the King James version of the Bible. This mere detail fascinated me, and gave an excellent leap into the chapters that so fourth proceeded. The novel commences ... Read More

Analysis of Timothy Findley’s Post-modern Novel Not Wanted on the Voyage (3196 words, 4 pages)

The post-modern novel Not Wanted On The Voyage by Timothy Findley employ's phallic symbols and denounces them. The author has chosen to do this because it is an effective way of explaining the masculine power demonstrated in the novel, specifically, the treatment of the symbols. One example that will be ... Read More

An Analysis of the Metaphor of Flooding in Religion (4746 words, 6 pages)

The flood as found in Genesis is a multidimensional and an archetypal source of metaphor and myth. The flood is an example of metaphorical and mythological language that provides foundational constructs upon which other aspects of the Biblical text and other works can be seen as related. Metaphor and myth ... Read More

The Drive of Conflict in Not Wanted on the Voyage, a Novel by Timothy Findley (1346 words, 2 pages)

Not Wanted On The Voyage is driven by one major plot motive, conflict amongst each other. The conflict creates apprehension and drives the book onward. The events of the book greatly add to the conflicts and further add to the tension in the story. Since conflict drives this story the ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013