The Figure In The Carpet Themes

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The figure in the carpet themes.

It could be argued that the figure in the carpet certainly focuses attention on one issue the pursuit of a mystery and has one principal character the narrator. The unifying theme of the ironic readings of the story is that the figure is simply. The plurality of interpretations serves my purpose well in that it makes the figure in the carpet a good. But this remains somewhat speculative.

It may be that the figure in the carpet then was partly motivated by james s desire to offer his altogether more studied and subtle take on a similar theme to the one we encounter in wilde s story. The figure in carpet themes. Problematizing the surface he helps us to see what james calls the primal plan something like a complex figure in a persian carpet fittingly the benjamin franklin professor emeritus at the university of chicago begins with two chapters on his namesake exploring bifocal ben s plea for human providence and his strategy for evangelizing future generations in his new gospel of self improvement. But these features are overwhelmed by something of a superfluity of incident.

What we can analyse in james s story is the narration and this is important for two reasons.