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Novel Comparison
Comparison Essay # 10604
Novel Comparison
"The Good Soldier" by Ford Madox Ford and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera. Similarities, development of ideas.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages) |
2 sources |
2001
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"Ford Madox Ford said "I have always had the greatest contempt for novels written with a purpose. Fiction should render, not draw, morals." Two novels that exemplify the rendering of morals of which Ford spoke are his own book The Good Soldier and Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. These works possess certain similarities in that neither is told in strict chronological order, both involve quartets of irregular lovers, and both make claims about the world based on life as it is observed through the behavior of its characters in the midst of their marriages, sexual affairs, and adulteries. Each of these novels is, of course, written with a purpose. But Ford means that it is only the incompetent novelist who sets out the moral of his or her story and then proceeds to fill in the blanks. In this method the characters seem to be ordered up just..."More papers on Novel Comparison:
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