The Introduction of a Sub-plot in Shakespeare’s Play King Lear and its Dramatic Effect Jamal Nafi... more The Introduction of a Sub-plot in Shakespeare’s Play King Lear and its Dramatic Effect Jamal Nafi, PhD English Department, Faculty of Arts Al-Quds University-East Jerusalem- Palestine Abstract There has been so much controversy about the inclusion of a sub-plot in Shakespeare’s play King Lear. Some critics think that having a secondary story, woven within the main story, is a defect and lessens the dramatic effect of the main plot in particulars, and the whole story in general, while others believe that it is an advantage and it enhances the dramatic effect of the main story. To come up with a clear idea and to answer the research question, which is, whether Shakespeare should have included a sub-plot in his tragedy, and in order to account for this intuition, and to substantiate the assumption that the sub-plot adversely affects the main plot, the drama’s form and structure have been thoroughly analyzed and critiqued through analyzing and examining the plot of the play. The research concluded that including a secondary story within the main story is an advantage, and that the two plots (the Lear story and the Gloucester story) greatly resemble each other, in so far as in both cases an infatuated father proves to be blind towards his good-hearted and well-meaning child, Lear in the case of the main plot, and Gloucester in the case of the sub-plot, while the unnatural child, whom he prefers, causes the ruin of all his father’s happiness. The paper also concluded that the two stories support each other, and that the sub-plot enhances the main plot’s tragic or dramatic effect rather than weakens it. Keywords: Dramatic effect, Form, King Lear, main plot, William Shakespeare, structure, sub-plot, tragedy
The present study aims to examine David Herbert Lawrence’s novel Women in Love in terms of form a... more The present study aims to examine David Herbert Lawrence’s novel Women in Love in terms of form and structure. Lawrence was quite impatient of the conventional demands of a rigid and coherent plot construction made of a novelist. The novel bears witness of Lawrence as a narrator and as a sturcturalist, and Women in Love isn’t without a form. In his later novels, Lawrence perfected the form that bears his distinct mark. The form, which he has evolved by combining myths, allegories and symbols, has been perfected in his second phase of writing, and Women in Love is one of them. He was attempting in his fiction what others before him had never done. The analytical approach will be adopted throughout the paper. The novel discussed in this paper bears enough evidence to justify the hypothesis that although themes were what Lawrence was interested in, form and structure were his important concerns.
Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Vol.6 No.1. March 2015
... more Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Vol.6 No.1. March 2015 Pp.83 –93
Paul’s Manipulation of the Three Major Women in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
Jamal Subhi Ismail Nafi Department of English, Al-Quds University Palestine
Abstract This paper investigates the development of Paul’s personality and the influences that shaped it in D.H. Lawrence’s major novel Sons and Lovers. The study has approached the novel from psychological perspective, particularly, emphasizing the protagonist’s various attempts to manipulate the three women characters he came in contact with, in order to create a personality for his own self, and it also reveals Lawrence’s treatment of women through the delineation of their characters and their relationship to Paul Morel. The qualitative research paradigm is adopted focusing on textual data analysis of the novel. The findings of the study revealed that what Lawrence actually wrote about was the relationship between man and a series of female stereotypes, for women characters were treated unfairly by the author, who seems to blame them for their attempts to absorb the character of Paul. And that a healthy and successful relationship between men and women is a dream that is difficult to achieve. This can be seen through Paul’s failure to establish a successful and healthy relationship with all of the three women characters in the novel. At the end of the novel, Paul decides to free himself and go on alone. Freedom is what he has been looking for, and that kind of free life cannot be achieved unless he runs away from the women he came to know. Keywords: Female, male, manipulation, relationship, stereotype
To understand the current hardships of Al Quds University and other Palestinian educational insti... more To understand the current hardships of Al Quds University and other Palestinian educational institutions, it is necessary to explore the geography of Israeli occupation. This particular geography is the outcome of four decades of iron-fisted Israeli colonial rule in the West ...
The Introduction of a Sub-plot in Shakespeare’s Play King Lear and its Dramatic Effect Jamal Nafi... more The Introduction of a Sub-plot in Shakespeare’s Play King Lear and its Dramatic Effect Jamal Nafi, PhD English Department, Faculty of Arts Al-Quds University-East Jerusalem- Palestine Abstract There has been so much controversy about the inclusion of a sub-plot in Shakespeare’s play King Lear. Some critics think that having a secondary story, woven within the main story, is a defect and lessens the dramatic effect of the main plot in particulars, and the whole story in general, while others believe that it is an advantage and it enhances the dramatic effect of the main story. To come up with a clear idea and to answer the research question, which is, whether Shakespeare should have included a sub-plot in his tragedy, and in order to account for this intuition, and to substantiate the assumption that the sub-plot adversely affects the main plot, the drama’s form and structure have been thoroughly analyzed and critiqued through analyzing and examining the plot of the play. The research concluded that including a secondary story within the main story is an advantage, and that the two plots (the Lear story and the Gloucester story) greatly resemble each other, in so far as in both cases an infatuated father proves to be blind towards his good-hearted and well-meaning child, Lear in the case of the main plot, and Gloucester in the case of the sub-plot, while the unnatural child, whom he prefers, causes the ruin of all his father’s happiness. The paper also concluded that the two stories support each other, and that the sub-plot enhances the main plot’s tragic or dramatic effect rather than weakens it. Keywords: Dramatic effect, Form, King Lear, main plot, William Shakespeare, structure, sub-plot, tragedy
The present study aims to examine David Herbert Lawrence’s novel Women in Love in terms of form a... more The present study aims to examine David Herbert Lawrence’s novel Women in Love in terms of form and structure. Lawrence was quite impatient of the conventional demands of a rigid and coherent plot construction made of a novelist. The novel bears witness of Lawrence as a narrator and as a sturcturalist, and Women in Love isn’t without a form. In his later novels, Lawrence perfected the form that bears his distinct mark. The form, which he has evolved by combining myths, allegories and symbols, has been perfected in his second phase of writing, and Women in Love is one of them. He was attempting in his fiction what others before him had never done. The analytical approach will be adopted throughout the paper. The novel discussed in this paper bears enough evidence to justify the hypothesis that although themes were what Lawrence was interested in, form and structure were his important concerns.
Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Vol.6 No.1. March 2015
... more Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Vol.6 No.1. March 2015 Pp.83 –93
Paul’s Manipulation of the Three Major Women in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
Jamal Subhi Ismail Nafi Department of English, Al-Quds University Palestine
Abstract This paper investigates the development of Paul’s personality and the influences that shaped it in D.H. Lawrence’s major novel Sons and Lovers. The study has approached the novel from psychological perspective, particularly, emphasizing the protagonist’s various attempts to manipulate the three women characters he came in contact with, in order to create a personality for his own self, and it also reveals Lawrence’s treatment of women through the delineation of their characters and their relationship to Paul Morel. The qualitative research paradigm is adopted focusing on textual data analysis of the novel. The findings of the study revealed that what Lawrence actually wrote about was the relationship between man and a series of female stereotypes, for women characters were treated unfairly by the author, who seems to blame them for their attempts to absorb the character of Paul. And that a healthy and successful relationship between men and women is a dream that is difficult to achieve. This can be seen through Paul’s failure to establish a successful and healthy relationship with all of the three women characters in the novel. At the end of the novel, Paul decides to free himself and go on alone. Freedom is what he has been looking for, and that kind of free life cannot be achieved unless he runs away from the women he came to know. Keywords: Female, male, manipulation, relationship, stereotype
To understand the current hardships of Al Quds University and other Palestinian educational insti... more To understand the current hardships of Al Quds University and other Palestinian educational institutions, it is necessary to explore the geography of Israeli occupation. This particular geography is the outcome of four decades of iron-fisted Israeli colonial rule in the West ...
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Paul’s Manipulation of the Three Major Women in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
Jamal Subhi Ismail Nafi
Department of English, Al-Quds University
Palestine
Abstract
This paper investigates the development of Paul’s personality and the influences that shaped it in D.H. Lawrence’s major novel Sons and Lovers. The study has approached the novel from psychological perspective, particularly, emphasizing the protagonist’s various attempts to manipulate the three women characters he came in contact with, in order to create a personality for his own self, and it also reveals Lawrence’s treatment of women through the delineation of their characters and their relationship to Paul Morel. The qualitative research paradigm is adopted focusing on textual data analysis of the novel. The findings of the study revealed that what Lawrence actually wrote about was the relationship between man and a series of female stereotypes, for women characters were treated unfairly by the author, who seems to blame them for their attempts to absorb the character of Paul. And that a healthy and successful relationship between men and women is a dream that is difficult to achieve. This can be seen through Paul’s failure to establish a successful and healthy relationship with all of the three women characters in the novel. At the end of the novel, Paul decides to free himself and go on alone. Freedom is what he has been looking for, and that kind of free life cannot be achieved unless he runs away from the women he came to know.
Keywords: Female, male, manipulation, relationship, stereotype
Pp.83 –93
Paul’s Manipulation of the Three Major Women in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
Jamal Subhi Ismail Nafi
Department of English, Al-Quds University
Palestine
Abstract
This paper investigates the development of Paul’s personality and the influences that shaped it in D.H. Lawrence’s major novel Sons and Lovers. The study has approached the novel from psychological perspective, particularly, emphasizing the protagonist’s various attempts to manipulate the three women characters he came in contact with, in order to create a personality for his own self, and it also reveals Lawrence’s treatment of women through the delineation of their characters and their relationship to Paul Morel. The qualitative research paradigm is adopted focusing on textual data analysis of the novel. The findings of the study revealed that what Lawrence actually wrote about was the relationship between man and a series of female stereotypes, for women characters were treated unfairly by the author, who seems to blame them for their attempts to absorb the character of Paul. And that a healthy and successful relationship between men and women is a dream that is difficult to achieve. This can be seen through Paul’s failure to establish a successful and healthy relationship with all of the three women characters in the novel. At the end of the novel, Paul decides to free himself and go on alone. Freedom is what he has been looking for, and that kind of free life cannot be achieved unless he runs away from the women he came to know.
Keywords: Female, male, manipulation, relationship, stereotype