Relationships in "The Aspern Papers"

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The paper attempts to show how "The Aspern Papers" by Henry James illustrates the complexity of human relationships. The paper analyzes the hidden motives of the characters and highlights how people can let their selfish desires and needs rule them. The paper relates that we learn from this novel that people cannot be trusted.

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"Relationships are always complex. People are connected to each other in strange ways and they often do things that do not make much sense. However, some people do things that make absolute sense when we stop and look at motives and desires. What we learn about relations in The Aspern Papers that they can be quiet multifarious. The narrator in the story will do anything to get his hands on the Aspern Papers. Tita has her own motives for acquiring what she wants as well. Even the aunt has her reasons for behaving the way she does. What we find out about human relations from these characters is that things are never what they seems and there is generally something more going on beneath the surface. The Aspern Papers reveals that hidden motives play more of a part in out lives than we would like to expect."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Brown, Ellen. "Revising Henry James: Reading the Spaces of The Aspern Papers." EBSCO Resource Database. <www.searchepnet.com> Site Accessed April 04, 2008.
• Edel, Leon. Henry James. Scribner's Literary Resource Database. <http://www.infotrac.galegroup.com> Site Accessed April 04, 2008.
• James, Henry. The Aspern Papers. Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library Online. http://etext.virginia.edu Site Accessed April 03, 2008.
• Schneider, Daniel. The Unreliable Narrator: James's "The Aspern Papers" and the Reading of Fiction." EBSCO Resource Database. <www.searchepnet.com> Site Accessed April 04, 2008.

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